The Perch Blog

NBA teams are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to get an extra competitive advantage. The Brooklyn Nets, Detroit Pistons, Miami Heat and Orlando Magic are among the first teams to leverage Perch, a cutting-edge AI-powered weight training platform.

Read about the roles of power and work metrics to inform and optimize weight room performance

They may work out of a Cambridge office, but Perch is working on the field, pitch, and court. A growing number of teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, and NCAA use Perch’s AI-backed weight training platform to monitor player movements during exercises and enhance their motivation, safety, and performance.

With numerous new MLS clients across a growing number of professional teams, Perch weight room performance technology is revolutionizing the way teams train with objective data points, gamification, and motivation rep to rep in the weight room.

U of L men’s basketball has been utilizing an AI-backed weight training platform this offseason. The next time Louisville men’s basketball takes the court, how they fare will, in large part, depend on the play of their revamped roster. But their success also hinges on a new AI-backed weight training platform.

There is a lot of science behind weight room performance assessments, what types of assessments are beneficial, why the assessments are important, and what they tell us about athlete performance and health. Read here for more!

VBT or velocity based training can get complicated, so we wanted to boil back to the basics of vbt in this blog post

Jacob Rothman and his co-founder created Perch, a company with the goal of making the world a stronger place. Perch enables athletes and coaches to effortlessly quantify weight room performance through a camera enabled device and software. This provides groundbreaking insights to their clientele through the use of AI in their tech stack.

One of the most helpful parts of VBT is that coaches and athletes can autoregulate using velocity based training, learn more in this blog post!

perch product updates for the mid-year of 2023 from quarter 1 and quarter 2

Load velocity profiles are important to track progress and use VBT or velocity based training effectively. Learn more in this blog post!

Asa part of this interview, we had the pleasure of interviewing Jacob Rothman, co-founder of Perch. Jacob Rothman was an MIT varsity athlete when he herniated a disc in his back during a routine workout. While recovering from his injury, he started to brainstorm ideas for a device that could help athletes better quantify workouts in the weight room