Are there any differences for the runner regarding contact time, flight, etc. among the different top models of running shoes with carbon sheet? A few months ago, our colleagues of Road Running Review, offered us a very interesting proposal. It was about analyzing biomechanical factors and time of footstep and flight of 5 running shoes […]
The Institut Català del Peu, through Fitmetric, its Department of Sporting Biomechanics, carries out a series of physical tests and biomechanical analysis of the tennis service with 3 different biomechanical technologies at the same time to 24 tennis players of the Catalan Tennis Federation, which is a part of a pioneering plan in Spain. Fitmetric, […]
The Catalonia’s Hiking Entities Federation and the Institut Català del Peu, through Fitmetric, its Department of Biomechanics, has signed a new agreement of collaboration. This month, the President of the FEEC, Jordi Merino and the Director of the Institut Català del Peu, Miguel Ángel Baños, have signed this agreement to add up efforts between the […]
Last September the 11th of 2022, “La Vanguardia” newspaper published an item about the last technological innovations designed By Fitmetric (Sporting Biomechanical Department from the Institut Català del Peu). Said technology is called Motiontrack and it is about an application in order to visualize biomechanical and performance parameters of the sportsman/sportswoman. Coming up next, you […]
Last month, the Institut Català del Peu signed an agreement of collaboration with the Catalan Cycling Federation. Said agreement was brought to fruition by the signature of an agreement in the headquarters of the Catalan Cycling Federation between the president of the F.C.C., Mr. Joaquim Vilaplana Boloix and the manager of the Institut Català del […]
Our fellow team members, Naomi Ballesteros (podiatrist) and Julia Muñoz (biomechanics woman), are interviewed in our private hospital to talk about our services. Barcelonautes was born in 2008, 25 TV decides to broadcast a new information and entertainment program like a kind of reports. It was planned to be a program which could approach the […]
Recently, we have had the pleasure of having with us Natalia Vía-Dufresne in the Institut Català del Peu. Natalia Vía-Dufresne competes in sailing in the classes 470 Europe and on cruise sailing. She took part in four summer Olympic games, achieving two silver medals in Barcelona 1992, in the Europe class and in Athens 2004 […]
Ruth Roura is currently a member of Mataro’s Tennis Club and she has a Fitmetric grant, awarded by the Catalan Tennis Federation, in order to carry out a complete 3D study of the gesture of service in tennis and a 3D functional study, as well as the monitoring of the tennis player, with her trainer, […]
Pere Rullán was born on March the 27th of 1990 in the Sóller Valley, in the Majorca Island, and nowadays, he is settled in La Molina (La Cerdanya). As he well says, since he was a child, he was a tremendous enthusiast of sports which involved movement . . . He came into the world […]
A few days ago, the Andorran tennis player Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva, visited the Institut Català del Peu to carry out a 3D tennis biomechanical study. The bright young hope of tennis came with her trainer Jordi Arrese, (Spanish professional tennis ex player and he was a silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games). With […]
