The science behind World Cup performance: Inside Oklahoma State's human performance lab

As the world's best soccer players compete at the FIFA World Cup, teams are relying on more than coaches and training ...
Stars and Stripes

Allow human performance technology to play a vital role in training warfighters

Our nation’s heroes—military recruits, active-duty warfighters and veterans—should have the same resources to optimize their training as our sports heroes. Sports and sports heroes are deeply rooted ...
Defense One

The military needs to make human-performance optimization part of daily ops

Ukraine’s fierce defense against Russia’s better-on-paper invasion force underscores—once again—how soldiers represent human weapons systems, bringing cognitive, physical, and tactical attributes to ...
The Washington Post

As advances in training, technology and technique continue, how close are we to setting records that are impossible to break?

On a Saturday morning last month inside a hotel ballroom in Manhattan, Noah Lyles opened the calculator app on his phone and reduced the outer boundary of our species’ athletic performance to ...
Nextgov

Wearable tech and data analytics pair with human coaches and athletes for the 2024 DOD Warrior Games

Every year the Department of Defense and the Army Training and Doctrine Command host the Warrior Games, a large Olympics-like event that showcases hundreds of wounded, ill and injured active duty and ...
Defense One

As combat evolves, leaders seek not ‘super-athletes’ but ‘human weapon systems’

FORT BENNING, Georgia–U.S. military leaders at the forefront of troops’ training, health, and readiness are shifting their focus from creating "super-athletes" to building and maintaining the ability ...
Marine Corps Times on MSN

Pentagon demands human performance data from services in fitness overhaul

The Pentagon has quietly set in motion a yearlong strategy to unify the military services' approach to achieving what it calls "Total Force Fitness." ...