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01/18/2017
Introducing: Perch, The Startup Using Machine Learning In The Gym For Smart Workouts
Scaling with you as you grow, Perch allows you to create workouts, surveys, assign velocity thresholds as well as deliver content directly to an on-rack tablet. Here, the user can view and annotate historical data and workout video or export data as a CSV for integration into your current workflow.
01/18/2017
This MIT Startup’s 3D Cameras Analyze the Performance & Health of Athletes
In a world where wearables and fitness trackers are now the norm, the Perch team wanted to cater to athletes who need more specific metrics to guide their training. Perch aims to go beyond accelerometers that strength coaches and weightlifters use to monitor workout routines, tracking how fast a person is lifting, as well as form and power output.
06/13/2017
Perch Uses 3D Cameras Attached To Weight Racks To Help Athletes Train Smarter
Perch enables Velocity Based Training (VBT), which allows coaches to put these unknowns (sleep, nutrition, work load, etc) in a black box and utilize velocity as a feedback mechanism. VBT improves safety, preventing athletes from lifting weight that is too heavy for a given day. Perch is providing an affordable, accurate, reliable, and easy-to-use system that every coach and athlete can utilize to realize the benefits of velocity based training.
06/16/2017
Pushing the limits of athletic performance
Rothman, who played on MIT’s baseball team as an undergraduate, is co-founder of Perch, a company
that uses 3-D cameras to assess the velocity of a weightlifter’s movements and provide instant feedback
on how to improve form and minimize the risk of injury.
09/20/2017
Perch – A Camera/Tablet Combo Making Gains for College Athletes Everywhere
Weightlifting is not something anyone can jump into and expect results. It takes time and effort to get the movements and form down for changes to show. Perch could be the product an athlete needs to help them get that form down and prevent a potentially-serious injury from happening.
01/10/2018
Perch Looks to Reinvent the Rack with Smart Tech
The Perch module attaches to just about any rack and users can sign into their accounts from a tablet, which is also attached to the rack and Perch module. Perch then films and tracks every rep, allowing both athletes and coaches to analyze the workout, while also refining future workouts.
"This helps to improve motivation and informs elite athletes, weekend warriors, and retirees alike of what they can be doing to move more powerfully, efficiently, and safely," Perch CEO and co-founder Jacob Rothman"
04/24/2018
Perch: The Future of Strength Training
“As athletic development and technology continually evolve, I’m always looking for new ways to maximize my athletes’ potential,” said AC Flora High (S.C.) strength coach Micah Kurtz. “Perch is extremely intriguing because it shows the potential to become an efficient, affordable and portable method to quantify my athletes’ strength, power and movement quality.”
08/10/2018
These exercise startups are sweating it out
A digital camera sees the world in three dimensions and follows the movement of the barbell the user is lifting. One important measure is velocity — the speed of each lift.
The system can spot the difference between “strong and explosive” motions, or someone who is “barely completing his reps.” Future versions of Perch’s system, he says, will be able to track not just barbells but other items used in workouts, like medicine balls and kettle bells.
10/02/2018
Meet the 10 startups in Techstars NYC’s summer 2018 class
Perch aims to improve physical training and coaching by installing a camera and tablet, which is mounted on gym equipment to track and display data like number of reps and velocity. It’s currently targeting college and professional teams, and plans to expand to commercial and home gyms.
05/17/2019
LSU football’s new power play: How strength AND speed is giving a true measure of Tigers
When compared to the technology the LSU strength program was previously using, the Perch device will
allow LSU to have one of the most efficient and effective velocity-based training programs in college athletics.
There's a culture of staying on the cutting edge within the LSU athletic department.
12/04/2019
LSU Is Winning the Weight-Room Arms Race With Real-Time Data
Three weeks after Perch installed units on each of the 22 weight racks at LSU’s indoor football facility on
Oct. 1, Tigers coach Ed Orgeron said he noticed differences in his team’s performance on the field.
“I think our guys are stronger and quicker and faster,” he said in late October. “I think as the season goes on, there’s not as many injuries this year as there were in years’ past and that’s because of our strength and conditioning.”
06/16/2020
LSU Football Strength Coach Tommy Moffitt Recaps First Week of Workouts, How Technology Has Helped in Return
Technology like Perch allows coaches and athletes to determine the speed of movement in real time and adjust the weight or exercise accordingly. "Using the velocity-based system we have, Perch, we knew all of the sets and all of the reps and all of the velocities the guys were doing before we left."
07/18/2019
Perch, A Techstars Startup, Is Lifting The $30 Billion Fitness Industry To New Heights
"Our hope is that with Perch, we can begin to build the foundation for "smart gyms" or gyms with equipment that has our technology installed into it, so that from the moment you walk in to when you walk out, you can get comprehensive data on your workout performance so you can improve in your next session," Rothman says.
06/03/2020
An Inside Look at the Technology That Will Help LSU Football Return to Peak Physical Condition
Discovering a baseline for each athlete—whether it's an incoming freshman or a returning player—is just another way in which the Perch technology will help LSU in the coming weeks as it attempts to get its players back in shape.
What Perch allows is for strength coaches like Moffitt and Jacobs, as well as each individual athlete, to find the weight that best suits the athlete and lift at the optimal speed given by the strength coach."
