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.
Coaches John Evans and Isaiah Rivera review various sports technologies for tracking performance and recovery, from wearables and apps to force plates and even shock collars. They share personal data and experiences, ultimately revealing that a simple metric—daily step count—correlates most strongly with their jump performance, and caution against becoming overly reliant on complex tech.

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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