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VALD Performance VALD Performance provides innovative human-measurement technology to over 1,000 of the world’s most elite sporting teams, universities and defence departments.

16/10/2026

🎯 Maintaining intent as the load changes.

As Ryan increases the load for his final set, GymAware provides live velocity feedback, showing whether each rep remains within the target velocity zone.

Rather than relying on load alone, VBT helps ensure the intended training stimulus stays consistent as loading changes.

A simple look at velocity-based training in practice.

15/10/2026

How do you take elite performance systems from professional sport and make them work in the private sector?

In this episode of , Lachlan Wilmot, Co-Founder of Athletes Authority, shares the journey from AFL and NRL strength & conditioning roles to building one of Australia's leading athlete performance businesses.

Lachlan discusses:
✅ The evolution of Athletes Authority
✅ The role technology has played in scaling high-performance services
✅ How VALD helped bridge the gap between pro sport and private practice
✅ Why systems, frameworks and coach development remain at the core of long-term success

The conversation also explores velocity-based training, rehabilitation frameworks, social media's impact on the industry and the challenges facing the next generation of practitioners.

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How do you assess and develop an athlete’s strength with ForceDecks? This flowchart by Alex Natera, featured in the Prac...
15/10/2026

How do you assess and develop an athlete’s strength with ForceDecks? This flowchart by Alex Natera, featured in the Practitioner's Intermediate Guide to Force Plates, offers a structured approach to strength testing and training using objective data.

Want to explore more processes like this for using ForceDecks? Download the full guide for free today ➡️ https://valdperformance.pulse.ly/dck4g7bety

What an athlete produces matters. How they produce it matters too. 🏈🏀Drawing on his approach to training NFL and NBA ath...
14/10/2026

What an athlete produces matters. How they produce it matters too. 🏈🏀

Drawing on his approach to training NFL and NBA athletes, Jordan Collins, M.Ed., CSCS, explores how combining kinetics and kinematics can provide greater context to testing and athlete profiling.

Read the full article: https://valdperformance.pulse.ly/323yuclw5r

13/10/2026

🎓 Introducing our latest VALD Academy Masterclass:
Athletic Shoulder Testing with Dr Ben Ashworth

Learn how to assess shoulder force capabilities and give testing data meaningful context to help inform rehabilitation and return-to-performance decisions.

Drawing on his experience in elite sport and shoulder research, Ben takes you through his AthleticShoulder testing framework with practical demonstrations, progressing from lower-threshold assessments to more demanding performance tests.

Key topics include:
✅ Building an athletic shoulder testing framework
✅ Shoulder internal and external rotation testing
✅ The ASH (ISO I-Y-T) test and plyometric push-up
✅ Test setup, ex*****on and common compensations
✅ Interpreting results using previous results, sporting demands and relevant benchmarks or normative data
✅ Applying objective data to rehabilitation and return-to-performance decisions

Start the Masterclass today on VALD Academy 👉 https://vald.pulse.ly/vrbjevgtgo

Building a successful coaching business requires more than delivering a good training program.For Jordi Taylor, co-found...
13/10/2026

Building a successful coaching business requires more than delivering a good training program.

For Jordi Taylor, co-founder of Principle Sports Performance, the client experience is built around four connected components: onboarding, assessment, education and programming. Objective monitoring provides a shared understanding of where each client is, how they are progressing and helps guide programming decisions.

In our latest article, Jordi shares how Principle has built these processes into its coaching model to create a consistent experience while still individualizing training at scale.

Read the full article to learn how Principle approaches client education, objective assessment and long-term monitoring.

🔗 Link to read the full article:
https://valdperformance.pulse.ly/c5klq3wbac

10/10/2026

Collecting data means there is a question that needs to be answered.

In this YouTube exclusive roundtable, Ryan Mc Laughlin sits down with Nick Poulos and the two creators of ForceDecks, Daniel Cohen and Phil Graham-Smith to uncover the reasoning and implementation of force plate testing in practice.

✅ Tune in to hear:
- How to choose which test to perform
- The difference behind testing what's relevant, and choosing what's relevant
- The future of AI in applied practice and academia

🎥 Watch now: https://youtu.pulse.ly/uthfbu3ykg

09/10/2026

Years of programming locked in spreadsheets, notes and PDFs? Bring it into BridgeAthletic and watch it turn into a fully structured, customizable and trackable training plan in seconds.

Bring your training to Bridge today: https://valdperformance.pulse.ly/bt7ojexzum

08/10/2026

Good data starts with getting the fundamentals right.

is back for Season 4. In the first episode, Dr. Roula Kotsifaki joins Dylan Carmody to explore how jump testing and force plate data can help practitioners make better-informed decisions throughout rehabilitation.

From test ex*****on and athlete cueing to metric selection, Roula explains why consistency matters before the data can be meaningfully interpreted.

✅ Tune in to hear:
• Why cueing can influence jump performance
• How to reduce metric overload
• What should drive metric selection
• The role of drop jumps in ACL rehabilitation
• Why standardization is key to meaningful data

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts: https://spotify.pulse.ly/aoi6poizqu

ForceDecks vs GymAware 👀Both provide valuable performance data, but what they measure and how they calculate it differs....
07/10/2026

ForceDecks vs GymAware 👀

Both provide valuable performance data, but what they measure and how they calculate it differs.

Rather than starting with the technology, start with the question.

Swipe for a simple breakdown ➡️

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