Integrating Sports Performance and Sports Science: Building a Winning Team Culture

Integrating Sports Performance and Sports Science: Building a Winning Team Culture

As sport coaches or athletic department administrators, you're constantly seeking ways to enhance performance and create a winning culture for your teams. In a recent interview with Coach Stephanie Mock, Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Performance at the University of Pittsburgh, Volt Performance Coach and Podcast Host, Tom Smalley delved into the strategies behind merging sports performance and sports science to elevate athlete development and success.

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Volt and Big Data “In the Wild”: The World’s Largest Strength Training Study

Since the new Volt app was launched in 2018, there have been over 1 million users (and growing!) who input data on sets, repetitions, and load on a daily or weekly basis into the Volt Database. For a moment, just stop and think of the total number of data points! Indeed, this is the era of Big Data. Big Data is now a term used in many sectors including business, health care, banking, government, manufacturing, retail, education…and also sports, as first popularized by the book and movie Moneyball. And, just as professional sports teams are data mining and using predictive analytics to improve performance, so are the software development, data science, and sports science teams at Volt.

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