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Sprinting, Fitness and Injury: What You Need to Know

Ahhh….…ughhh….. s/he blew a hammy! Everyone hates to hear those words. Hamstring, hip flexor, calf or any other lower extremity injury suffered during high-speed running and sprinting. It doesn’t matter – injuries suck!  Especially, when they are due to training errors and could have been prevented. At SPT, we are...

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Sports Performance Tracking’s SPT2 Gets FIFA-approval

Sports Performance Tracking’s award winning SPT2 GPS device has received approval for in-game use by FIFA according to the federation’s International Match Standard (IMS) for Electronic Performance and Tracking Systems (EPTS). In order to meet FIFA’s requirements for in-game use, the SPT2 GPS device passed extensive testing which covered player safety, performance,...

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Integrated Heart Rate Is Here

Sports Performance Tracking release Integrated Heart Rate Monitoring. SPT is constantly evolving and always looking to develop new ways to improve its offerings for competitive athletes and teams. Part of this development is the ability to bring more than just GPS data into the GameTraka performance analysis platform. The next step in...

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Mjøndalen IF Beating the Odds with SPT

After promotion into the Eliteserien, Norway's top flight football competition, SPT client, Mjøndalen IF had the odds stacked against them in the last game of the season. The team was involved in a remarkably dramatic end to the season with the bottom six clubs in a relegation dogfight. Heading into the final match...

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Does Wellness Rating Influence Performance?

Athlete monitoring usually involves some form of a recovery and wellness survey – and also some measure of training load – session RPE or GPS metrics. To quickly review Athlete Monitoring 101, SPT GPS technology can monitor the physical work performed by the athlete which include total distance, number and distance of...

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