16/07/2026
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JPV Sports Science & Athlete Development
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15/07/2026
Squatting based on sports science evidence can maximise your results and minimise your risk of lumbar spine injury development.
Follow this simple checklist:
1: Start with high bar placement when learning, allowing for more upright torso, transfer to Olympic lift derivatives later on, and maximising the development of erector spine muscles.
2. Grip width, aim for shoulder width grip on the bar IF shoulder mobility allows and actively pull the bar into your upper traps.
3. Foot placement , aim to start slightly wider than shoulder width, taller athletes may start a little wider.
4. Brace HARD, imagine someone is going to punch you in the stomach prior to starting the movement to maximise your intra-abdominal pressure that acts to decrease strain on lumbar spine region by up to 40%
5. Foot placement, unless your a powerlifter squatting with hamstrings touching calves, aim for no more than 15 degrees external rotation of the feet from parallel which is optimal for half depth or box squats.
Using 45 degrees external rotation for foot placement on parallel back squats results in a larger lumbar lordosis angle, something to avoid.
A fundamental movement that can shape the foundation for an athlete.
Get it right to maximise your performance and preserve your lumbar spine!
15/07/2026
TIP OF THE TRADE
14/07/2026
Brutal truth incoming, if you don’t understand the science behind the development of a performance attribute, you can’t really be surprised you aren’t improving.
Speed development is highly complex, and multifactorial.
Yet since most people have run or “run fast”, or watched some influencer videos on “the gram” they suddenly become an expert.
Have you noticed elsewhere that EVERY time you engage in speed training, your efforts are not being measured by timing gates?
The main reason being, many coaches do not how to interpret the outputs.
That and sadly showing how much their athletes aren’t improving with objective data is not good for their business!
Here’s why we ALWAYS measure our sprint work.
1. Track performance over time, giving a better understanding of performance progression as opposed to one-off testing.
2. Athlete fatigue management: significantly poor outputs indicate athletes are under fatigue (assuming your athletes give 100% effort). Ceasing the session immediately on this feedback decreases injury risk and opens discussions on fatigue management.
3. Allows greater flexibility: random sessions with poor outputs indicate mechanics development work to be more valuable than “flogging a dead horse” so to speak. Also leads into point 2 above.
Don’t believe us?
Simple test, ask your coach to explain the science and progression stages in speed development, you will be shocked about how little they actually know!
Our speed sessions supported by the legends at Strength By Numbers
Speed development isn’t guesswork, so why are you wasting your time trying to “work it out”?
Remember, if you aren’t engaging with sports science in your training, you won’t even keep up let alone excel in your sport.
If you want to get fast, see you soon at JPV.
13/07/2026
Tight legs holding you back? 🦵💥
Muscle tightness can affect your movement, performance and recovery. At JPV, we can help improve your mobility, flexibility and strength so you can move and feel your best!
12/07/2026
The population with the most to gain from strength training, are sadly neglected, but not at JPV!
Apart from the well documented health benefits for building lean muscle and bone mass, performance in sports for women has been sadly overlooked in past years.
Significant evidence and real world case studies show that women who engage with high quality sports science can:
1: Significantly reduce injury risks, especially those to the major joints of the knees and ankles!
2. Boost force production capacity, improving speed, and application of force to kicking, throwing, and striking.
3. Develop a solid aerobic engine to outlast your competition.
One massively IMPORTANT point , don’t fall into the trap of getting trained like a male athlete!
Women’s performance development has different strength benchmarks, different biomechanics challenges , and requires a much more flexible programming approach given fluctuating energy levels associated with all things related to being a woman!
We are super proud to be a performance facility that embraces the challenge of being at the forefront of women’s performance development.
It’s no longer a question of using sports science to stay ahead of the competition, it’s a prerequisite to keep up!
If you want performance development backed by real sports science, we look forward to seeing you soon!
12/07/2026
You plateau and you don’t understand why.
The answer why is likely one of the following:
1. You train too often and never recover and let your body adapt and develop, feeling flat and fatigued.
2. You train too little, and miss the “sweet spot” to catch the peak adaptation period from your last strength session and hit a brick wall each session.
3. Your loadings aren’t balanced properly, manipulating the %1RM specific to your stage of athletic development.
4. You train SLOW, with no real concentric intent.
5. You do the SAME variations of movements in similar patterns (e.g squat patterns), and hit accomodation quickly.
Aside from engaging with our industry leading strength development systems, here are some key pointers that will help you:
1. Train the same pattern and muscle groups between 48-72 hours IF you trained hard enough to warrant that recovery period.
2. Change up your movement pattern stimuli, for example, employ different iterations of squats to give your body a new stimuli to adapt to.
3. Ensure the bulk of your loadings if you are a beginner at 60-75% 1RM, and 75% and above for experienced athletes.
4. Give your strength sessions the respect they deserve, recover properly to ensure you hit the weight room ready to go!
5. Always make a habit to lift with concentric intent, slow in the world of athletic development isn’t that transferable to sports performance.
Employing the above will help greatly, but if you want to fast track your strength development, we look forward to seeing you soon!
11/07/2026
Newcastle’s most comprehensive performance testing.
Strength, power, RFD, DSI, key muscle balance ratios.
Everything covered at major joints, and the large proximal musculature.
Compare your performance outputs against quality normative data.
Let sports science and objective information guide your custom performance program.
ALL included in your JPV Sports Science membership.
THIS is a massive key behind our industry leading results.
Want the best?
We look forward to seeing you soon.
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