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ATHLETE PERFORMANCE TESTING

MEASURE. UNDERSTAND. IMPROVE.

ARC Athletic provides performance testing for youth, adolescent and adult athletes, helping identify physical strengths, limitations and key training priorities.

Using a combination of practical field testing and AxIT performance technology, we assess the physical qualities that matter most for sport performance.

Performance should not be based on guesswork. Training should be targeted to address specific performance needs and goals.

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ARC Athletic combines practical field and gym testing with objective performance data to help athletes understand where they are now, what may be limiting performance and what should be prioritised next.

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Depending on the athlete, sport and goal, testing may assess:

  • Strength

  • Power

  • Rate of force development

  • Jump performance

  • Reactive strength

  • Acceleration

  • Sprint speed

  • Change of direction

  • Agility

  • Lower-limb asymmetry

  • Muscular capacity

  • Aerobic fitness

  • Repeat-effort capacity

  • Movement competency

  • Sport-specific physical qualities

 

Testing is selected according to the individual or sport, rather than using the same tests for every athlete.

INDIVIDUAL ATHLETE TESTING

​Suitable for recreational, developing, representative and competitive athletes.

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Performance testing can help:

  • Establish baseline performance

  • Identify strengths and limitations

  • Guide strength and conditioning

  • Prepare for trials or competition

  • Track progress across a training block

  • Measure whether training is working

TEAM + SPORT PERFORMANCE TESTING

ARC also provides performance testing for:

  • Sporting clubs

  • Representative squads

  • Sporting teams​

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Testing sessions are designed around the physical demands of the sport, age and level of the athletes, and the objectives of the coaching staff.

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Team testing provides more than individual scores. It provides objective data for coaches and athletes, and can:

  • Establish squad-wide performance benchmarks

  • Identify individual strengths and physical development priorities

  • Compare athletes across relevant performance qualities

  • Identify trends across the team

  • Inform strength and conditioning priorities

  • Establish pre-season baselines

  • Monitor progress across a training block or season

  • Evaluate whether physical preparation is producing measurable change

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Testing is most valuable when it becomes part of an ongoing performance process.

A squad can be assessed at the beginning of a training period, complete a targeted strength and conditioning program, and then be retested to determine what has changed, and can be delivered as a standalone service or integrated with ongoing team strength and conditioning.

This allows coaches to move beyond subjective impressions and use objective performance data to support training decisions.

AxIT PERFORMANCE TESTING

ARC uses AxIT force plates, dynamometry and electronic timing gates, applying the same fundamental measurement principles used in exercise science and sport performance laboratories to objectively assess strength, force, power and speed.

Rather than relying on observation alone, these tools measure the forces an athlete produces and the time taken to complete specific movements or distances. Using principles of biomechanics, physics and exercise science, we can quantify qualities such as:

  • Peak force

  • Rate of force development

  • Jump performance and power

  • Reactive strength

  • Impulse

  • Isometric strength

  • Left-to-right differences

  • Acceleration

  • Sprint speed

  • Change-of-direction performance

  • Split times

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Force plates measure ground-reaction forces during movements such as lifting weights, jumping and landing.

Electronic timing gates provide precise sprint and change-of-direction times, removing the inaccuracies associated with handheld stopwatch timing.

This gives us objective data that cannot be accurately determined by simply watching an athlete move, allowing us to establish a baseline, identify physical development priorities and measure meaningful changes following a targeted training program.​​

TEST. TRAIN. RETEST.

Measure where you are. Train what matters. Retest to see what changed.

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ATHLETE PERFORMANCE TESTING

Youth | Adolescents | Adults | Teams

Mittagong | Bowral | Southern Highlands

BOOK A PERFORMANCE TEST

Contact ARC Athletic to discuss individual athlete or team testing.

" Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion..."
Michael Jordan

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