The Case for ACHIEVE

Nothing Else Comes Close. Here's Why.

The Hockey Opportunity

Hockey Has Trailed Other Major Sports in Performance Technology — By About a Decade.

The central role of skating makes traditional forms of player motion tracking less useful. Tools built for running sports don't translate to the ice.

The intermittent, stop-start nature of ice hockey makes data interpretation far more complicated than in most team sports.

The cost of hockey already runs high. Player tracking and analytics needed a more accessible solution to actually get adopted at scale.

You don't know enough about what your athletes are doing on the ice.
Hockey is a physiological black box. How physically stressful are on-ice sessions, really? Are athletes giving 100%? Are they too fresh, or over-reached? Without skating-specific data, coaches are guessing.
You aren't able to integrate internal and external load.
Internal load (heart rate, exertion) and external load (movement, acceleration) are both valuable — but they're most valuable used together. Without integration, you're missing half the picture.
Your external load measures aren't individualized.
Using absolute measures loses the sensitivity that makes external load data useful. Individualization is what allows you to actually understand your athletes in detail, rather than comparing them against a generic average.
You can't model external loading patterns using all the data you're collecting.
By modeling the relationship between acute and chronic training loads, pitfalls like stagnation and overtraining can be avoided — and proper peaking can be achieved.

Competitive Comparison

Feature	ACHIEVE	IMU	Heart Rate	LPS
Skating Specific	Yes	No	No	No
Stride Mechanics	Yes	No	No	No
Individually Normalized	Yes	No	No	No
Dynamic Range	Yes	No	No	No
Movement Tracking	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Heart Rate	Yes	No	Yes	No
Normalized Load	Yes	No	No	No
Proprietary Metrics	Yes	Varies by product	No	Varies by product
Integrated Load Metrics	Yes	No	Yes	No
Drill Planner App	Yes	No	No	No
DTL Planner App	Yes	No	No	No
RTP Planner App	Yes	No	No	No
Integrated Solution Price	Yes	No	No	No

IMU = inertial measurement unit (accelerometer-based wearables) · LPS = local positioning system · ? = varies by product