Lessons Learned: 2025 Webinars
It’s been a great year hearing from all of our established, knowledgeable advisory board on a variety of topics. Ranging from screening batteries, rehabilitation, fatigue, and strength quality assessments, we are honored to have such a strong advisory board. Here are some of the biggest lessons learned from the year.
Designing a Pre-Season Screening Battery with Ed Harper
Ed Harper discussed the importance of utilizing individualized and intentional testing methods — not just doing “what everyone does.” The most dangerous phrase in performance and sports science is “we’ve always done it this way” because technology and athlete performance is always developing and advancing. Furthermore, your testing battery must fit your club, resources, philosophy, players, staff and what you can realistically repeat in-season. It’s about collecting the right data, not more data, to drive actual interventions. Ultimately, this webinar reminded us that data isn’t valuable on its own — it becomes useful when we use it to guide what to do next for our athletes.
The biggest lesson learned is that effective testing isn’t about copying elite protocols — it’s about designing a system you can repeat, interpret, and actually use to improve player performance and health.
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Screening and Rehab in the NFL with Sam O’Leary
Sam O’Leary shared his journey in movement analysis across collegiate and professional American football, emphasizing how quickly technology has evolved and how new tools shape athlete care. Early assessments were mostly subjective, and FMS was originally considered “advanced”, but is now too broad, now that we have integrated systems like video analysis and isometrics. Pre-season focuses on baseline testing, like flexibility, sprint analysis, hop tests, and others; and in-season uses quick monitoring like the CMJ weekly or twice weekly. A real applied example he gave was a linemen with chronic back pain. Video revealed extension bias in his stance, so they modified his stance and added anti-extension core, which ultimately reduced pain.
The most impactful lesson of this was that “anything measured can be improved,” explaining that objective data is the foundation for athlete trust, rehab progression, and long-term performance development.
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Fatigue and the Female Athlete with Stacey Hardin
Stacey Hardin breaks down what fatigue actually is, why it’s becoming a major issue in women’s sports, and how to assess it using psychological, physiological, and performance-based measures. Women’s sports, especially basketball and soccer, are booming. More popularity equals more games, tighter schedules, more international play and more travel, which puts elite female athletes under increasing workloads. Monitoring fatigue effectively is becoming more and more essential for performance, recovery, injury prevention, and long-term player health. Fatigue is multifactorial, physical + cognitive, and measured through changes in performance, physiology, or psychological state. It impacts mood, desire to train, and cognitive and physical endurance. Common tools of performance fatigue is the CMJ, RSI, force plates, jumping/landing tests, and others.
The biggest lesson learned from Stacey is that fatigue in female athletes cannot be understood through a single metric — it must be assessed through a combination of psychological, physiological, and performance-based methods, with equal emphasis on how the athlete is moving, not just the numbers they produce.
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Strength Quality Testing and Assessment with Eamonn Flanagan
Eamonn Flanagan delivered a complete framework for assessing lower-body strength without needing a sports-science lab. Understanding the five major strength qualities, how each jump test reveals a different quality, and why the CMJ alone is not enough for comprehensive profiling are the key takeaways. Creating a testing battery that is reliable, repeatable, and aligned with the specific qualities you want to monitor was emphasized.
The biggest lesson learned from this webinar: you cannot use one test to measure every strength quality. You must match each one to the specific assessment that actually reveals it.
We want to extend our gratitude one more time to our advisory board members, Ed Harper, Sam O’Leary, Stacey Hardin and Eamonn Flanagan, for dedicating time to KinetikIQ and our community. One of our company values is providing value to the sports technology industry, and we are happy to do just that. We have some exciting new updates coming in the new year and cannot wait to share them — stay tuned!