Omegawave, a sports training equipment manufacturing company based in Finland, has focused their efforts in sports science research to create a new way to test an athlete: from the resting state. Essentially, the Omegawave technology will gain data from resting athletes, measuring their internal response to external loads as well as pushing their limits to experience maximum recovery time with minimal injuries.
One of the latest teams to implement this tech is the Pittsburgh Pirates. “This is battle-tested,” Pirates head athletic trainer Todd Tomczyk told Trib Live. “It gives us a snapshot of the body as a whole, different systems, to give the player feedback to help them prepare to play.”
Tomczyk says he uses Omegawave’s training equipment to serve as “a talking point,” when conducting strength and conditioning for his athletes. Employing a daily stress test to gauge a player’s capacity for performance is one of the many features Omegawave software makes readably available for the Pirates and other teams they work with.
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The test itself takes about four minutes to complete and requires two sensors that are attached to the chest and forehead. The technology measures a multitude of the body’s integral systems, including cardiac, energy supply, and central nervous system. The collected data gives an analysis on an athletes’ mental stress, oxygen usage, and everything in between.
“The benefits using the Omegawave really began to show once I began to learn just how much I could individualize not only the training sessions but the recovery process as well,” Mark McLaughlin, a physical preparation coach, told Omegawave.
The collected data requires trust and honest responses from athletes if they want the most accurate results to appear. But with honest responses comes the realization of what athletes need to do to improve their athleticism.
Omegawave has been assessing athletic performance with their technology for over a couple decades now, with the tech first being used on Nike track athletes in the 2000 American Olympic qualifier. Ever since then, they have been able to work with prominent sports teams such as the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Their work in applied sports science is predominantly used among an entire active community aiming to maximize their time and their training.