When I first heard about this place I thought maybe
they could help me with my lifelong goal
of dunking a basketball but that's just not...
pretty much everyone here can already dunk.
We don't see a lot of people that are in to
casual, general fitness like yourself or me.
We're really centered on people
whose career aspirations lie in that.
So you're a doctor, and you take the healthiest people,
the athletes,
and make them the best athletes on the planet.
Like myself, when I tried it out.
I'm gonna turn on our force plate here.
How did you come to the force plate?
Any time, you know, an athlete moves,
it generally can be boiled down into
their interaction with the ground.
So the force plate really analyzes that pushing force.
And so we've built up a massive database
of force plate assessments
and we're able to cross that against injuries,
minutes played in basketball, snaps taken in football.
So your assessment, right Jim, is this far right hand one.
What we're looking at is three variables:
load, explode and drive.
This gray variable, load, is the movement downward.
It's your ability to develop force.
Explode is the pause between
downward and upward movement.
The last variable is drive.
I'm sure you can guess, the movement upward.
Now for you, based on the numbers we see here,
you have a poor interaction with gravity for two reasons.
Your not above 45, right,
and you're not within 15 for all your variables
because there's pieces missing in our force time curve.
We got information on you as an athlete.
Now I need to show you what action plan
you need to take to ensure that you can
improve that variable or grouping of variables.
Alright, let's throw a couple of these reds on there.
I was going to say warm up first.
Good. Drive back up. Give me four more just like that.
You kind of had some frustration earlier on
in your career as a coach with outcomes being
judged based on wins and losses.
Yeah, I think you ultimately want to measure not just the
result of the process.
That's where again technology comes in as,
if you are tracking those
you're not always tied to wins and losses.
All I want you to do, when you sink down
you throw your arms back, throw your leg back,
take off left side, land on right.
So we're here, jump out, stick and hold.
Sorry I went a little farther than you did.
You're reaching for better data as opposed to
an end point, like, getting my vertical actually higher.
We're looking at the content of your vertical jump,
not just your vertical jump.
So whereas other places are like,
"Oh, I want to get you from a 36-inch vertical
to a 39-inch vertical,"
Well, we can look at that, and also see how you're
producing force, to address inefficiencies.
The name Sparta is actually from "Spartan."
We just knocked the 'N' off to make it more, I guess,
meaningful and easier for people to remember.
But ultimately it does come down to simplicity.
It would be funny if they were playing, like, Rod Stewart.
I don't like Rod Stewart, I just think it would be funny.