SPEC

Sports Performance Enhancement Consortium (SPEC) Mission

The SPEC program is dedicated to the development of sport through coaches’ clinics, sports camps, community involvement, athlete monitoring programs, and research.

Who is SPEC and what do we do?

The Sports Performance Enhancement Consortium (SPEC) began as a collaborative effort between The Sports Science Concentration in The Department of Kinesiology, Leisure, and Sport Science and ETSU Athletics.  This type of relationship is not found anywhere in the United States and offers a unique opportunity for the advancement of sport sciences.  SPEC was created in the Spring of 2006 with the following goals:

  1. Providing monitoring services for the ETSU sports teams.
  2. Being instrumental in the development of coaches and sports scientists.
  3. Producing “cutting edge” sports science research.
  4. Gaining national and international recognition as the leader in coaching development and sports science, including the development of research, service and educational programs.

Since our inception we have been striving to meet these goals.

Services and Equipment

Testing Services:

  • Hydration - Specific Gravity
  • Body Composition - Air Pleysmography (Bod Pod), Skin Fold Calipers, Hydrostatic Weighing, Bioelectrical Impedance
  • Vertical Jump - Static and Counter-movement Jumps (Weighted and Un-weighted) off force plate (with or without potentiometers) or switch mat
  • Agility Tests - Created in conjunction with sports science staff and coaching staff to best represent sport specific agility.
  • Custom force rack with force plate and potentiometers - Isometric Mid-thigh Pulls, Dynamic Mid-thigh Pulls, Vertical Jumps, Isometric Shoulder Extension (Volleyball Spike and Serve)

ETSU-SPEC EQUIPMENT:

  • 2 Force Racks (operates with force plate and potentiometers)
  • LabView 8.5 software
  • 4 Force Plates (1 dual)
  • 3 Switch Mats
  • BodPod
  • Hydrostatic Weighting Tank
  • Timing Gates (Kinematics Measurement System)
  • DartFish Movement Analysis Software
  • DEXA- (Quillen Medical Center)
  • 2 Monarch Cycle Ergometers
  • 2 Quinton Treadmills
  • 2 Local Vibration Units (30 Hz, 2mm displacement)
  • Environmental Chamber
  • Refractometers (used for urine specific gravity)
  • Cholestech Cholesterol Analyzer
  • Hydrostatic Weighing Tank
  • Tanita BIA
  • Lange Skinfold Calipers
  • Yellow Springs Lactate Analyzer
  • Quinton EKG Recorder
  • Polar Heart Rate Monitors
  • Nasiff Assoc. Cardiocard Interface/Software
  • Metabolic Cart- Parvo Medics
  • 2nd Force Rack with 2 Force Plates (Right and Left)
  • 6 Portable Lactate Analyzers
  • Wireless EMG