The great thing about our job is that we get to work alongside many of the best coaches in the world. Whilst many coaches have their own unique methods for optimising their athletes, they all agree on one thing – maximising athlete motivation leads to the greatest improvements.

Maximising athlete motivation is not simply about motivating them to do more. The concept of “more is better” is rarely true – it is actually the quality that really counts.

If you are talking specifically about speed and agility work, plyometrics or other high intensity forms of training, then quality is everything. The core principle of in improving athletes is overload. That is, in order for any aspect of fitness to improve, it must be pushed to the limits. Therefore, if you want your high intensity training to work, it must simply be done at 100% of maximal effort and quality. Anything less and you are doing ineffective training which only serves to increase the athletes’ risk of injury.

Athletes love feedback, especially when it is enriched with accurate and objective information. This should not just be limited to testing days 2-3 times per year. If you start using electronic timing in all of your training sessions, you will see an instant increase in motivation and effort. You can do it with a stopwatch sure, but the athletes know that is not accurate and objective – and it simply doesn’t work as well.

The best way to motivate athletes is to let them compete against each other, and against themselves. With multiple lane electronic timing, you can run ALL of your speed work through SMARTSPEED and generate a truly competitive environment. With SMARTSPEED’s many reactive drills, you can create sport specific situations for confrontation, racing and all of the things you would usually only get during games.

Athletes get bored easily. They want training which is fun, different, and always changing. SMARTSPEED makes this easy as there are literally 100s of drills that are unlike anything your athletes have ever seen. The simple act of even using lights to challenge athletes will change the tone of your sessions immediately.

Getting athletes to record their monitoring and training data is a huge challenge. Why? Because usually it is difficult, and they get nothing back in return. SMARTABASE will reward athletes for their cooperation, with immediate feedback, and powerful reports on their personal bests and changes in performance.

Fusion Sport products have been carefully designed to optimise the experience for both coaches and athletes.
Motivation is the key, and with our products your athletes will be motivated like never before.