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Measuring your mental game means you can sharpen your physical game.
Mental Stats is technology that can measure cognitive fatigue and mental fitness so it can be diagnosed and treated without stigma like a physical injury.
Groundbreaking medical … mobile technology that is certain to revolutionize how companies, athletes and so many others live their lives.
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Psychological harm is normalized in high performance athletic culture.
In a 2019 survey of retired Canadian national team athletes:
41% trained while injured/exhausted
35% were put down/embarrassed/humiliated
35% were intentionally ignored
31% were criticized as a person
22% engaged in eating disorders
52% didn’t tell anyone
33% sought help
13% submitted a formal complaint
9% felt supported
Source: AthletesCan 2019. Percentages for female athletes are higher than percentages for male athletes.
When your mental game suffers your physical game suffers.
“Research shows that humiliating or neglecting athletes typically leads to worse performances.”
Dr. Jennifer Walinga, Royal Roads University and Olympic Rower
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Athletes can use strictly confidential data in order to …
Track their own levels of cognitive fatigue and mental fitness.
Better understand how to manage cognitive fatigue and mental fitness.
Be alert to changes in their brains before they affect quality of life and in-competition performance.
Sustainably improve their in-competition performance.
De-stigmatize conversations about mental fitness with their coaches, trainers, and teammates.
Coaches can use anonymized, aggregated, data in order to …
Track their team’s levels of cognitive fatigue and mental fitness.
Discover coaching techniques that will improve and manage their team’s cognitive fatigue and mental fitness scores.
Use data to inform season-level plans and game plans, and to pre-plan with athletes about what to do when team scores will inevitably drop during the season.
See decline in brain functioning before it affects team performance.
Improve their team’s in-competition performance.
Build cultures that will help athletes and programs thrive.
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The result is high-performing, well-rounded athletes.
Athletes can optimize their athletic performance, athletic experience, and overall quality of life.
Photo: MST supporter and Canadian triathlete Laurin Thorne