
THPStrength · John Evans, Isaiah Rivera
The Number One Recovery Metric That Correlates With Jump Performance
March 3, 2026·20 min·2 clips
Isaiah Rivera warns that recovery wearables can make you 'have a bad day because of what it's saying,' advocating for coach-gatekept data instead.
As heard by us
A coach's filter for sports tech, with daily steps and jump metrics doing the heavy lifting.
This episode breaks sports tech into three clean buckets: worth buying, worth ignoring, and worth treating with caution. Most of the time goes to jump metrics, My Jump 2, and ground contact time, with a firm case for tendon elasticity and energy recycling in the jump.
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Trying to tell useful jump tech from expensive noise?
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