Output Sports

Do you actually know how HYROX ready your athletes are, or are you still guessing? 🏁

Built from thousands of athlete assessments, the HYROX Conditioning Test gives coaches and HYROX affiliate facilities a standardised way to benchmark the physical qualities that matter most on race day.

Completed in 34 minutes, it combines five race relevant movements with each athlete’s recent 5 km PB to generate one overall HYROX Conditioning Score, plus a station by station breakdown of where they perform well and where they have the greatest opportunity to improve.

Once that benchmark exists, programming becomes more specific. Instead of simply chasing faster race times, coaches can identify what is limiting performance and focus the next training block accordingly.

Want to bring objective HYROX benchmarking to your facility? Get your free demo here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0x5Gpw0

🎥 Watch the full webinar replay: Maximising the Value of VBT.

Our CEO and co-founder, Martin O’Reilly, joined Dan Howells to explore how coaches can apply velocity based training in practice, covering load velocity profiling, autoregulation, velocity drop off and readiness monitoring.

The key takeaway: start with a clear coaching question, fit VBT into your existing training flow and build from there.

🔗 Link: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0wWlwL0

What shows up in extra time was measured long before it.

Good luck in the semi final, England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

What are the best predictors of tennis serve velocity? 🎾

New research involving NCAA Division I tennis players found that countermovement jump (CMJ) height and medicine ball rotational scoop throw peak velocity produced the strongest and most consistent signals for faster serves. In contrast, adding trunk range of motion did not improve the predictive model.

These findings support the role of whole-body power in serve performance. Serve velocity is not determined by the hitting arm in isolation. It relies on the athlete’s ability to generate force through the lower body and transfer it efficiently through the trunk and upper body into the racket.

For practitioners, CMJs and rotational medicine ball throws may therefore provide useful field-based assessments of the physical qualities associated with serve performance.

The physical performance data in this study was captured using the Output Sports V2 IMU sensor, highlighting its ability to assess multiple qualities relevant to tennis performance.

👉 Interested in seeing how Output works? Click here for your free walkthrough: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0wTczs0

Reference: Boyd et al. (2026). CMJ Height and Medicine-Ball Speed Show the Strongest Signals for Tennis Serve Velocity.

The unseen work behind World Cup performance. 🌍

At major tournaments every player arrives with a different training age, recovery profile, workload history and response to travel.

For S&C staff, the job is not just keeping players fit. It is knowing when to push, when to hold back and how to keep standards high across the whole squad.

That requires more than feel alone. Output helps staff test readiness, guide training intent and make objective performance decisions throughout camp.

This is how Output helps staff manage every part of it.

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LIVE Thursday 9th July, 6:30PM UK / 1:30PM ET / 10:30AM PT

We are delighted to have Howard Green hosting a free webinar with Output.
Strength and power matter. But do they fully transfer, or is there a movement piece missing between the gym and the court?

Howard has spent almost two decades answering exactly that in pro tennis. He breaks down the READER framework Tennis SuperMovers built to programme against the real demands of a point, and how they use testing and monitoring in Output to track whether the work is transferring.

For any coach whose job is to make gym work show up in competition, this is a framework you can apply to your own environment, and a clearer basis for the calls you make.

Comment READER for the link to register.