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"Athletes" is a broad term encompassing anyone performing at an elite physical level. This includes everyone, from soccer players to snowboarders, marathon runners to weightlifters, gymnasts to swimmers, basketball players to martial artists, tennis players to cyclists. NeuroTracker would benefit every type of athlete and here is why:
‘‘It’s important to have your mind operating on a high-level…that’s key as a quarterback, to be able to see things and how they relate to each other quickly. I think that’s exactly what NeuroTracker helps you do. I use it all year-round.’’
Matt Ryan, Atlanta Falcons Quarterback & NFL MVP (New York Times)
What's different about professional athletes? Modern neuroscience and sports science suggest that it's mental skills, and not so much physical prowess, which define super-elite athletes. Let's take a look at the top 5:
Imagine this: sports are filled with fast-paced action and unexpected twists, so being aware of your surroundings is absolutely essential.
It's interesting how amateur athletes tend to narrow their field of view, only focusing on a few things, whereas super-elite athletes have an incredible awareness of everything going on around them.
This lets them concentrate on the ball or their opponent, while others are caught up in the overall action.
Team sports offer a wide range of play options, with countless plays to choose from.
The process of making the right decision at the right time involves predicting the future and pushing working memory and executive functions to their limits.
Lionel Messi is a supreme example of someone who possesses exceptional decision-making skills. He can make game-changing passes at the drop of a hat.
Biological motion perception is important for sports, and players need to be able to read several important body parts at the same time.
This allows players to guess what their opponents will do next. For example, in tennis, players can guess the direction of a serve before the ball is hit.
Researchers have found that athletes have a big edge in biological motion perception, a skill that helps them perform better.
In sports, rapid responses mean processing sensory information, figuring out the best action-response, and executing movement.
These complex reactions, especially while athletes under psychological pressure and physical fatigue, require skilled interpretation and processing.
A study on elite athletes found that top athletes have a superior ability adapting to NeuroTracker training, indicating heightened neuroplasticity.
In turn, this helps them learn quickly, respond better to practice and games, and change their thinking skills to be more successful.
NeuroTracker training programs will help you get:
Quicker processing of information
Quicker recovery from mistakes
Better situational awareness
Longer attention span
Better ability to stay calm under pressure
Better motor accuracy skills
Faster footwork, ball speed, and control
Higher speed and agility
Shorter reaction times
Better action execution
Better core balance
Additionally, the skills NeuroTracker works on are one of the best ways to avoid getting hurt on the field. Through improved peripheral vision, athletes become better at spotting and escaping dangerous situations that could hurt them, like hard tackles.
NeuroTracker has over a 100+ published papers which demonstrate that improving NeuroTracker scores has led to improvements in the sport. Here are a few of those studies
Just 3 hours of NeuroTracker training improved competitive soccer passing decision-making by +15%, effectively reducing passing errors by a whopping 50%!
For this research, a group of college-level soccer players participated in 30 NeuroTracker training sessions over five weeks. An active control group watched 30 3D soccer videos from the FIFA World Cup, and a passive control group didn't do any training.
The group that trained with NeuroTracker improved a lot. The other groups felt they improved in their self-assessment, even though the coaches monitoring them didn't notice any improvements.
The study found that just 3 hours of NeuroTracker training made a big difference. It boosted the players' passing decision-making in competitive soccer by 15%. It reduced passing errors by almost 50%, which led to better decisions during games.
You can read the full study on ScienceDirect.
The Nishinippon Institute of Technology, the Kyusyu Institute of Technology, and Kyushu Sangyo University worked together with the Saitama Seibu Lions, a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League, for 5 months to see if training with NeuroTracker's 3D multiple object tracking could improve hitting performance and have far-reaching effects.
The study's results suggest that NeuroTracker training that lasts for a long time has ongoing cognitive benefits. When hitting against fastballs, the results were mixed, with small but not statistically significant gains overall. But for pitches other than fastballs, like curve balls and sliders, there were big gains after training that were surprising. The study has proven that NeuroTracker training helps baseball players get better at hitting.
You can read the full study on Digital Life.
Did you know the Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences in Germany, conducted a meta-review of all the literature on cognitive training and discovered that only the NeuroTracker effectively improved your performance in real life.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, a professional soccer player for UK's Premier League club Liverpool and the England national team, uses NeuroTracker to improve his game.
Trent reached an impressive 250% increase in his score at the time the documentary was filmed. That was only 6 weeks after he started training with the program!
Follow him on his journey in Red Bull’s documentary ‘Trent’s Vision – See Better, Be Better’.
Although everyone has heard of rodeo, not many people realise it is a sport that tests human performance in very unique ways. Zac Bourgeois, a professional rodeo athlete and US junior national champion, is one of NeuroTracker's biggest fans. In his own words:
‘‘NeuroTracker has been life-changing for me. It really helped me a lot. Everyone should do it.’’
Zac Bourgeois
Watch his full interview here or read about his experience with NeuroTracker and how it has helped him in his guest-post on NeuroTracker's blog:
Aaron Cook, a global Taekwondo champion, has trained extensively under the guidance of coach Mick Clegg for a number of years. Ever since he started working with NeuroTracker, he has won a lot of gold medals around the world. Here is what he had to say:
“Taekwondo is a very fast sport so you have to be totally aware, a single lapse and it could be game over. NeuroTracker is simply a vital tool for me now. It's helped me see things quicker, process information faster and sustain my attention for longer, and this is what gives me the edge over my rivals”.
Aaron Cook
Would you like to know what other athletes think of NeuroTracker? In this blog post, we have collected the most inspiring words spoken by 21 athletes:
As the power development and strength and conditioning coach at Manchester United F.C., Mick Clegg was the first coach to find and use NeuroTracker. Using cutting-edge technology, Mick trains world-class athletes at Elite Lab, a high-performance training centre. Here's what he had to say:
"At Manchester United, it became clear that abilities between the ears made the difference between top players and truly great ones. So I travelled to the University of Montreal to investigate NeuroTracker. I certainly haven’t looked back – it’s part of all the coaching I do.”
“To become great, players need to evolve through progressively advanced combinations of training exercises that integrate cognitive challenges. Training needs to condition mental focus at each athlete’s processing speed threshold…to keep on top of the action when it matters most. NeuroTracker is a great example of how this can be done. This is why I’ve now coached over 15,000 NeuroTracker sessions. When you’re always matching training with the neuro-physical limits of performance, the learning curve is potentially endless.”
Mick Clegg
