Sport Performance Services
SUSPI's Sports Performance Division provides the following service offerings applicable to teams and individuals competing at various levels:
Sports Science Testing
Our sports scientists focus on the use of sport-specific fitness- and skills tests as indicators of athletes' physical and motor capabilities in relation to their sport. The purpose of this process is to gain detailed physiological information that can be used to produce an enhanced, more efficient training programme.
Designing and Monitoring of Fitness Programmes
This includes aerobic, anaerobic, strength, endurance, power and speed training components.
Periodisation of Training
We periodise training years and cycles for teams and individuals. This ensures that the athletes are in a position to perform at their best levels during the most important competitions of the year or cycle. Coaches are also included in the decision making process with regards to testing and programme prescriptions.
Recovery
Our recovery services include components such as warm-downs, ice baths, contrast baths, fatigue monitoring, refueling, recovery massages and the use of compression garments.
Sports Vision and Decision Making
Training the visual system, and working the muscles associated with eye movements and eye-hand reflexes, can enhance performance in sporting codes that rely heavily on visual input.
Performance Analysis
Performance analysis is an area in sports science that provides statistical and video information to coaches and athletes about biomechanical aspects of performance. The analysis of game tactics and strategies also fall into this category. Our consultants offer a range of computer-based video technology that can provide accurate and reliable feedback customised to team- or individual needs.
Sports Nutrition
This includes access to accredited sports dieticians who will provide expert nutritional advice, tailored to meet the sport-specific needs of athletes and teams.
Sports Psychology
Sports psychology is a component of training that focuses on developing mental toughness. We can assist athletes and teams in developing specific strategies that will allow them to be thinking, feeling and doing whatever is needed to produce their peak performance.
Talent Identification
We utilise a battery of physical- and motor ability tests to determine the underlying physical talent a boy or a girl may have related to a particular sport. Different combinations of tests are administered for different sporting codes.
