Neurotechnology for Sport

To improve your reaction time there are many methods available such as light systems, catching rulers, responding to audio cues from your coach, catching balls, and using strobe glasses. These are all great methods to improve your reaction time if you have limited resources.  One of the most important aspects of improving reaction time is having enough load on the brain to make significant lasting changes. So doing 10-20 reps of a reaction-based task is NOT going to be sufficient to make changes within the brain. Most research studies will perform cognitive tasks for 20 minutes or longer to induce high enough levels of mental fatigue. This would add up to 800 + or more repetitions!   In the brain, skills are not refined unless we perform a huge amount of reps and usually to fatigue. If you think about your sport, that’s how you arrived where you are today, you practiced over and over for years, performing hundreds of thousands of reps over that time. Reaction time is a sk...

Visual skills for Sports Sports vision training  helps an athlete improve their visual skills so they can process information faster, make more accurate decisions and see things without looking.  Smooth Pursuits Smooth pursuit movements are reflexive eye movements that are required when  an object through an environment. The eyes move smoothly instead of I  jump. Can your athlete accurately track an object while it is moving and at different speeds  without losing focus? This skill is very basic but many athletes lose focus and need  to re-fixate due to visual fatigue. Saccades A saccade is a quick, jerk-like, simultaneous movement of both eyes between two  or more points of fixation in the same direction. Switching your eyes quickly to a target is fairly straightforward forward but are you able to  do this at high speed and with accuracy? or does your athlete need to constantly re-fixate on the target? Are they over shooting or undershooting? The...

Brain Endurance Training is NEURAL CAPACITY TRAINING Mental fatigue impacts our perception of effort which will in turn decrease our mental and physical capacity. The higher our perceived effort, the less access we have to our physical and mental reserves. No matter how well trained or elite we are. This therefore creates a detrimental knock on effect to performance. Additionally, it has also been shown that  mental fatigue   decreases prefrontal oxygenation  which will also limit our capacity. Brain Endurance Training (BET) can alter prefrontal oxygenation Reductions in prefrontal oxygenation can limit human performance Brain Endurance Training (BET) can alter prefrontal oxygenation Reductions in prefrontal oxygenation can limit human performance medium.com Brain Endurance Traini n g (BET)  summed up in once sentence is, “neural capacity training”  If you peel back all the layers the goal is always the same, overload the brain to create adaptation to increase y...