Youth Sports – Training the Body and Mind Together

June 26, 2020

Getting the most out of athletes isn’t an easy road: discoveries made in bio-mechanics and nutrition help with development and getting the most out of the body, but are you training athlete’s minds? And are you training the mind and the body together? With sports vision training, you can round out and improve overall human performance, starting from the top down.

Improving Key Vision Skills

There are a number of key vision skills that need to be developed fully for athletes to reach their full potential. We’ve compiled a list of 10 key vision skills to improve performance and reach new heights!

  • Visual Acuity
  • Focus
  • Peripheral Vision
  • Colour Perception
  • Visual Motor Control
  • Eye Movement
  • Alignment
  • Depth Perception
  • Visual Perception
  • Visual Integration

Vision Training for Athletes

The effects of vision training on athlete performance can be downright astounding, and span across every part of their career, from early and middle development, through active play, and in recovery or rehabilitation. Improving key visual skills can help athletes of any age and any skill level.

Development

  • Encourage sensory integration and refine perception across the board

  • Improve visual range and peripherals to increase awareness of the field

  • Develop neuro-cognitive connections to speed up decision making

Active Play

  • Train reaction time to improve speed and quickness

  • Improve focus during play, especially in busy, high intensity settings

  • Make and maintain progress across all vision skills

Rehabilitation

  • Test for and identify vision and neuro-optometric issues that can lead to player downtime

  • Correct issues arising from injuries like concussion or other TBI

  • Track and maintain performance to ensure smooth but rapid recovery

Vision Training with Binovi

With Binovi hardware and software, you have the tools at your fingertips to ensure athletes get the testing, assessments, and training they need to be at their peak.

Incorporate vision training into your regular physical training plans, and track all aspects of athletic training in a single place.

Stay on top of players regardless of whether they’re at the facility, on the road, or at home.

In the age of Big Data and analytics, Binovi is there to capture and display the information you need to make sure athletes are performing at the top of their game.

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