Force & Power Profile

How you produce force when the time available to produce it is limited. A jump takes a fraction of a second, so it forces you to organise yourself quickly, and the force plates record what that organisation looked like. You get the outcome, the time you had to reach it, and the mechanical route you took: how deep and how long the countermovement was, how quickly you turned braking into propulsion, how force built through the movement, and what each limb contributed.

Force plate testing measures force production; Biomechanical Assessment examines movement strategy. The Biomechanical Assessment establishes what movement options are available to you and which strategy you tend to rely on. The Force & Power Profile shows how that strategy appears when you have to produce an outcome quickly. This assessment measures the expression; it does not establish the strategy in isolation.

Yes. Force plate testing is useful for anyone who trains with intent: a club runner, a HYROX competitor, a team-sport player. What changes with level is the interpretation, not whether the measurement is worth having.

Not on its own. Some degree of difference is normal, and it can reflect a strategy that suits your sport rather than a problem to correct. What makes a difference worth attention is whether it shows up consistently across protocols, whether it fits your history and sport, and whether it is changing over time. This is a performance assessment: it does not diagnose an injury and it cannot predict one.

It depends on you, your sport and your goals. It may include countermovement jumps, reactive strength testing, repeated jumps and isometric force testing. It is a short battery of maximal efforts with rest between them: a measurement protocol, not a fitness test, and you will not be jumping to exhaustion.

That depends on what you are asking the result to do. A strategy that produces a large amount of force when there is enough time to build it may suit one sport and be poorly matched to another that demands rapid force production, repeated contacts or short ground contact times. A number is not good or bad until it is placed against your event.

Hawkin Dynamics force plates, a wireless dual-plate system sampling at 1000Hz, so each limb is recorded separately a thousand times a second. The same equipment used by professional clubs and national programmes.

The Force & Power Profile costs £150 at DVOTION Labs in London. Allow 1 hour for the appointment, including setup, testing and a discussion of your results. A written report explains the findings and recommendations for your training.

DVOTION Labs offers force plate testing at UNTIL Liverpool Street, 280 Bishops Square, London EC2M 4RB, and UNTIL Marylebone, 1 Orchard Street, London W1H 6HJ. Both locations operate by appointment.

Repeat force plate testing when the result can inform your next training decision, such as after a strength or plyometric block. Use the same protocols and similar preparation so that changes can be interpreted alongside normal variation. Your practitioner can help choose an interval that suits the training you are doing.

Yes. If the findings suggest a fuller understanding of your movement options would be useful, you can move up to the Movement & Force Production Strategy Assessment for a further £250, the same £400 as booking the two together. We will only raise it when the results point that way.