When Florida State heads to its practice field, the Seminoles are adorned not only in garnet and gold, but with high-tech monitors that use GPS and track distance, speed, acceleration, deceleration and heart rate.
Coach Jimbo Fisher swears by it. With real-time feedback on players’ exertion, coaches can adjust practice intensity for the team or specific players. As a result, he said, soft-tissue injuries like muscle pulls, “we’re cutting those way, way down. Injuries in football as far as shoulders, knees, those kinds of breaks and tears, there’s not anything anybody can do. The other part, we can monitor and keep our guys as fresh as we can.