Director of Sport Science / Assistant Director for Athletic Performance at Monmouth University
🏈 📊 Horizontal Force-Velocity Profiling — In-Season Speed Strategy for American Football I should’ve used a lighter background & added data points for the purpose of this post so that you can visually see on which part of the quadrant the athlete appears (sorry about that folks). In-season performance isn’t about reinventing the athlete — it’s about precision supplementation. This snippet from my Force-Velocity Profiling (FVP) dashboard maps select athletes across four key quadrants: - High Force / High Velocity - High Force / Low Velocity - Low Force / Low Velocity - Low Force / High Velocity Each quadrant reveals a unique neuromuscular profile, a fingerprint of how an athlete produces horizontal force at max speed. In the off-season, we chase development. But in-season, I strategically supplement, just like Vitamin D in the winter when sunlight fades. Same principle. Same precision. Wherever an athlete lands on the grid, I tailor interventions to meet their velocity needs whether it be in the form of sled sprints, flying sprints, blended approaches for hybrid needs, and sometimes, no intervention at all, because restraint is part of mastery. Speed development doesn’t pause when the season starts. It evolves. This model helps me identify regression at any given point, and apply the right dose of stimulus to keep athletes explosive, efficient, and game-ready. This isn’t just data. It’s decision-making at game speed. STATSports GPS' integrated FVP has helped me redefine my approach to strategic In-Season interventions, and not just 'workload management'. #SportScience #StrengthAndConditioning #SpeedTraining #DataAnalysis
Gio Grassi MA SCCC CSCS Good morning, my name is Michał. Could you spare 30 minutes to share with me how you use the information in your profile on a daily basis?
Human Kinetics BSC student at The University of Guelph
3dFacts you can turn the dial and adjust the supplementations as the seasons change!