Nebraksa Athletic Performance Lab
After the Wisconsin game, Frost made a statement in the presser piquied my curiosity but there wasn't much discussion about it so I forgot about it until now. He said that Carlos Davis informed him before the game that he wasn't healthy enough to play though he had practiced all week. I'm not judging Davis in any way, but I wonder how that played out. Maybe Frost meant that team doctors told Davis he couldn't play and Davis was just relaying the information to his coach. Maybe Davis had been sick and didn't feel up to it yet.
That all got me thinking about the Nebraska Athletic Performance Lab (NAPL) and how integrated it is with the football program and how success of the program is measured. How have NAPL "training techniques" affected football training? Have "thereapeutic interventions" lengthened the time an athlete is sidelined? Have the number and severity of injuries "officially" improved based on lab measurements? What technologies reduce injury and improve performance? This is purely anecdotral, but the team seemed to have more than its fair share of injuries this year. Maybe NAPL isn't even involved with football or maybe it's highly influential (e.g. at the training table). Maybe it's an evil plan to turn all of our players into slow blinkers. I just wonder if it has a positive/neutral/negative affect on football players.
Just looking for a conspiracty theory as to why we played so badly this year.
The NAPL's broad agenda includes:
- Investigating the impact of training techniques, therapeutic interventions, and nutrition on performance and recovery
- Assessing the biomechanical impact of performance on the athlete's body
- Harnessing biomarkers in saliva and blood to guide training
- Developing technologies to reduce injury and improve performance
- Identifying and reducing factors that lead to injuries and chronic conditions later in an athlete's life.
After the Wisconsin game, Frost made a statement in the presser piquied my curiosity but there wasn't much discussion about it so I forgot about it until now. He said that Carlos Davis informed him before the game that he wasn't healthy enough to play though he had practiced all week. I'm not judging Davis in any way, but I wonder how that played out. Maybe Frost meant that team doctors told Davis he couldn't play and Davis was just relaying the information to his coach. Maybe Davis had been sick and didn't feel up to it yet.
That all got me thinking about the Nebraska Athletic Performance Lab (NAPL) and how integrated it is with the football program and how success of the program is measured. How have NAPL "training techniques" affected football training? Have "thereapeutic interventions" lengthened the time an athlete is sidelined? Have the number and severity of injuries "officially" improved based on lab measurements? What technologies reduce injury and improve performance? This is purely anecdotral, but the team seemed to have more than its fair share of injuries this year. Maybe NAPL isn't even involved with football or maybe it's highly influential (e.g. at the training table). Maybe it's an evil plan to turn all of our players into slow blinkers. I just wonder if it has a positive/neutral/negative affect on football players.
Just looking for a conspiracty theory as to why we played so badly this year.
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