Denver Broncos’ Russell Okung might live in the trenches on Sundays but off the gridiron, the Pro Bowl left tackle is squarely situated at the heart of sports and technology. In December, the Oklahoma State University graduate was named one of six Athlete Advisory Board members for the NFLPA’s OneTeam Collective, the first athlete-driven accelerator program […]
Last week, more than 80 industry executives weighed in on the upcoming trends to watch in 2017 along with various predictions for what could be expected in the next calendar year. Responses were limited to 75 words or fewer and included sports industry professionals across the worlds of technology, virtual reality, social media, sports science, eSports […]
With the completion of the largest performance study ever conducted with a professional U.S. sports league, human performance company WHOOP is continuing to give sports organizations smarter data and insight into the relationship between physiological status and performance. In partnership with Major League Baseball, the study included voluntary participation from 230 minor league players across nine MLB organizations, […]
Wearable technology and performance company WHOOP announced that as of Tuesday it is making publicly available its performance optimization system, a product that was only offered to professional or college athletes, military, Olympians or via select pre-orders. According to Will Ahmed, Founder and CEO, the WHOOP Strap 2.0 will continue to deliver “actionable data” to athletes, […]
Olympic rower Gevvie Stone has been getting more sleep. She owes it in part to the WHOOP performance monitoring system she’s been using since last December, a wristband she wears at night that evaluates her strain and recovery. The thin, lightweight band does so by measuring and analyzing heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), ambient temperature […]
