What do Deron Williams, Carlos Quentin and Jake Gibb have in common? They are all premiere athletes in their respective sports. But beyond that, they all train using P3 Peak Performance technology. P3 combines sports technology with training to give athletes meaningful workout programs, rather than just guessing which exercises might be best for a given athlete.
Harvard graduate Marucs Elliot founded P3. In the past two decades, he has brought sports science to the forefront of professional sports. Elliot is credited with limiting the number of New England Patriots injuries starting in 1999 through their Super Bowl runs. His research started to catch on and has become an important tool in many high-profile sports organizations today.
The P3 program is in high demand and requires an interview to be accepted. Once accepted, athletes are assessed through a series of tests to help the P3 team develop a regimen specific to that athlete. No two athletes are alike, which is what makes the P3 program so unique. No exercise prescription will ever be general, all are developed with science-based observations.
But P3 focuses on more than just the muscles in the body. The team also focuses on brain training because it’s the command center for the body’s performance. Brain activity was never a big part of sports science because it’s so difficult to monitor. But P3 credits advances in neuro-science as the reason brain activity has changed the sports science field.
“Being able to quantify and train mental performance systems, similarly to how we quantify physical systems, is very exciting and will prove to be the new frontier in performance” Elliott said on the P3 website.
P3 works with Neurotopia Performance Brain Training for its mental diagnostics. P3 is all about using data to give athletes an advantage, and Neurotopia helps provide that data. An athlete is provided a score that tells them what mental state they’re in. A high score means the athlete is more focused and when that score goes down, the athlete is getting distracted.
Relaxation is another key component in the P3 labs. But not relaxation like hanging out on the couch and watching TV. P3 focuses on relaxing certain muscles when not being used in the explosive part of the athlete’s movement. This helps reserve energy in certain muscles and prevents injury due to tired muscles.
It’s hard to picture all of the possibilities of P3 sports science because it changes depending on which athlete walks in the door. The biggest positive is that the work P3 is doing aims to help reduce injuries in the sports world. Even if it’s not a player on your team, no fan likes to see an athlete go down with an injury.