The Performance Lab: Recent Episodes
The Quarterback Ranch
What’s it take to improve your performance? We’re covering topics and talking with the experts who will help an athlete get to the next level – mentally & physically. If it is about getting better, it will come from the performance lab powered by Sports1.
No company on the planet manufacturers and ships more college game balls than Big Game USA does. CEO Chris Calandro talks about the unique process of custom fitting a football to a particular quarterback, proper conditioning of a football and his views on the optimal air pressure of a football.
In this episode we dive deep into virtual reality training, especially for the quarterback position, with the developers of REPS VR, an immersive virtual reality training system used in the football programs at Stanford and Rice.
What goes on inside the head of a kicker? How is technology helping kickers improve their efficiency? What do pre-game fireworks have to do with kicking? What does it take to beat the shanks?
James Hairston, founder of Simple Kicking Solutions and a former kicker for LSU and Rice, takes us into the unique and curious world of kickers in this episode of The Performance Lab powered by Sports1.
This and more in this edition of The Innovation Lab.
About James Hairston
James Hairston was a kicker at LSU where he played in the 2012 National Champion Game. He finished his college career at Rice.
He is the Founder of Simple Kicking Solutions in Dallas, Texas which is a football lab creating products and technology to improve kickers, punters and long snappers. Additionally he has developed an iPhone App that tracks field goals, punts, kickoffs, and long snaps.
Injuries are inevitable for athletes. Treatment for these sports injuries range from ice and rest all the way to surgery. How do you know which injury requires which treatment?
Dr. Mark Greenberg, a leading orthopaedic physician and sports medicine specialist in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, joins us for our inaugural episode of The Performance Lab on Sports1.
We talk about various common athletic injuries, including stress fractures, shin splints, sprained ankles, knee injuries, elbow and shoulder ailments, as well as Sever’s Disease and Osgood-Schlatter disease. And when is ice appropriate versus? We’ll tackle all this during this in-depth discussion with Dr. Greenberg Dr. Mark Greenberg, M.Dd, Orthopaedic Surgeon and Founder, All-Star Orthopaedics.