Ascend Labs Documentation
  • 👋Welcome to the family!
  • Overview
    • 💡Why Force Hooks?
    • 🗺️Navigating the app
    • 🥇Some of our favourite features
  • Start here
    • 🧑‍🔬Performing your first test
    • ⚡Using athlete and test profiles
  • Screens
    • 🏠Home
    • 📈Trends
    • ✨Group Trends BETA (Coming soon)
    • ✨Collect
    • ✨Settings
    • ✨Web App (Coming soon)
  • Fundamentals
    • 🔎The selection component
    • ✨Onset detection for RFD (Coming soon)
    • ✨Leveraging the power of sub-tests (Coming soon)
    • ⛏️Bulk add athlete profiles (Coming soon)
  • Use-Cases
    • Coming soon
  • Resources
    • Updating firmware
    • Ascend Labs API
    • User Manual
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  1. Overview

Why Force Hooks?

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Last updated 11 months ago

Video overview

Got 4 minutes? Check out a video overview of our product:

Video Summary:

  • Overview of the Force Hook system: attachment to racks, bar clipping, app usage, and data retrieval.

  • Compatible with various racks: includes spacers for different hole sizes and brands.

  • Easy attachment: tighten the locking nut and clip in the bar.

  • Different size inserts: accommodate bars from 28 mm to 50 mm, including specialty bars like Swiss bars, trap bars, and safety squat bars.

  • Device operation: automatic zeroing upon turning on, and easy connection to the app.

  • App functionality: allows for quick unassigned tests or preassigned tests with athlete names and test types for long-term trend analysis.

  • Advantages over force plates:

    • Testing without the athlete’s feet on the ground (e.g., isometric bench press, bench row).

    • Seamless integration into regular training environments without disrupting sessions.

    • Simplifies in-session isometric testing and feedback.

  • Flexible setup: allows multiple testing stations for different exercises (e.g., mid-thigh pulls, calf raises, isometric bench press) during the same session.

  • Enhances efficiency: enables super setting for post-activation potentiation and easier management of large groups during training.

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This brief overview video covers essential information about the core features of Force Hooks