Omegawave 
The 2014 European Championship of American Football will kick off on May 30th, with national teams from Finland, Germany, Sweden, France, Austria, and Denmark taking the gridiron in stadiums across Austria. A grueling competition of games on top of games: each team has only a few days of rest during the week of pool play, … Read more
While the twelve host cities raced to finalize preparations for the June kickoff of World Cup Brazil, Omegawave dedicated a stretch of April to our first extended tour of the country. Ten days, three major cities, and upwards of twenty professional visits, an itinerary that featured stops at many of South America’s mightiest soccer clubs … Read more
Early this April, Omegawave embarked on a return trip to FIBO, joining nearly 700 other exhibitors at Europe’s largest annual fitness and bodybuilding show. Over 100,000 visitors packed FIBO’s convention floor in Cologne, and Omegawave took advantage of the opportunity to showcase our training management solution for an international crowd of coaches, athletes, and fitness … Read more
Michael Lindeman’s highly-regarded career has followed a course through the elite reaches of professional soccer: serving as the fitness coach for Olympic Team Saudi Arabia, Grasshopper Club, Young Boys Bern, FC Luzern, HSV, AFC Ajax, and the Polish National Team before moving on to a stint as assistant coach with Fulham in the English Premier … Read more
“Albuquerque has a notoriety as being a pretty tough place, a pretty tough town. High crime rates and all that,” says Adrian Gonzales, founding partner and coach for the Elevate gym in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “It’s fitting that a tough town would breed tough people.” Not just breeds — attracts. Located in the Rio Grande … Read more
HRV heart rate variability measurements seem to have become the big thing in training for fitness or performance right now. It can be used as a great tool, no doubts. It will give us information about yes… about what? As the name indicates it can supply us with valuable information about the status of the cardiac … Read more
“It’s a long season,” says David Tenney, emphasizing the l-o-n-g as he describes an MLS schedule that encompasses anything but “a season.” This year, the MLS Combine began January 9th, players reported two weeks later to kick off their preseason training, the regular season stretches from the beginning of March to early November, and the deepest playoff … Read more
Bryan Habana may have been rugby’s fastest man, but there are some eventualities even he can’t outrun. Fans of Cape Town’s DHL Stormers and South Africa’s national team the Springboks have repeatedly watched Habana explode into the open green, accelerating to a gear that leaves nothing but more and more gaping lawn between he and … Read more
It’s underway: the cascading fireworks, the soaring kite, the flaming cauldron, all the anticipation and pageantry of the Sochi Games have now given way to the speed, daring, and creativity of the competitors out on the ice and snow. Just weeks before sisters Justine and ChloĂ© Dufour-Lapointe took the podium for Canada’s first gold and … Read more
“In the current environment, there’s so much out there and people don’t know what’s good and what’s not good,” says Rob Stock, founder and owner of The Human Performance Initiative, a cutting-edge gym in Virginia Beach, VA. “So they just assume if they walk out of there beaten and bloody, then they did something good to … Read more