Mental fatigue
The fatigue that builds in the brain across a session or a season, told apart from the fatigue in the muscles.
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Training plans measure the body in detail: power, heart rate, recovery. SPARK SPORT measures what decides the result under pressure: focus, composure and mental fatigue, read from the brain.
The mental side of performance, on the same timeline as the effort.
The fatigue that builds in the brain across a session or a season, told apart from the fatigue in the muscles.
How attention holds when the pressure rises, and how quickly it comes back after a mistake.
A picture of the athlete's mental state a coach can plan on, session after session.
Heart rate, power and lactate describe the physical cost of an effort. They cannot tell whether an athlete is mentally exhausted or simply physically tired, and the two call for different decisions.
Reading the brain next to the effort separates the two. It shows when concentration fades before the legs do, and which training loads leave the athlete sharp for the moment that counts.
Mental fatigue, told apart from physical fatigue.
The core engineered inside a race car holds on an athlete in motion.
Shocks and repeated impacts through the body and the head.
Running, turning, jumping, and a signal that has to stay clean through it.
Long, hot sessions, with capture running from the warm-up to the cool-down.
Explosive efforts where the decisive moment lasts a fraction of a second.
See how your focus and your mental fatigue evolve, and train the part of performance you could only feel.
Plan load and recovery on the mental side as precisely as on the physical one.
An objective read on mental readiness across a squad and a season.
It is the measurement of an athlete's brain activity, typically by EEG, to understand focus, mental fatigue and stress. SPARK SPORT applies it to training and preparation.
Physical fatigue sits in the muscles and the cardiovascular system. Mental fatigue sits in the brain: slower decisions, lapses of attention. Physiological measures alone struggle to separate them, which is why SPARK reads the brain.
Movement is the main obstacle to reading a brain signal on an athlete. The SPARK core is engineered for motion, vibration and heat, which is what makes measurement in real sessions possible.
Sports where attention and decisions under pressure decide the result, individual and team sports alike.
Athletes, coaches, performance staff, clubs and federations.
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