Sports science and technology play a critical role in major sports around the world, and as a country, we should embrace them to improve the health and efficiency of our athletes.

Athletes are some of the fittest people in the world, but they also push their bodies to the extreme daily to produce desired results on a team and individual basis.

Sports science analyses how a healthy human body operates during exercise and how sports and physical activity improve an individual’s health. It also helps the athletes know what to eat and at what time, how and when to train, how to recover faster from injuries, and many more things, whereas sports technology helps to monitor the performance and endurance of an athlete, assists in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of an athlete, and minimizes preventable injuries.

“It is quite unusual to come across a professional athlete who has never had one or two significant injuries that almost cost their sports career, hence the need to have good sports science doctors and improved sports technologies,” says Gabriel Isaac Otuk, the CEO of Fitness, Health, Nutrition, and Sport (FHNS), a private company.

He noted that as an advanced sports science and technology company, they have worked with some of the top athletes in Uganda, like Joshua Kiptegei and Sudi Olanga, several universities, like Nkumba University, local football clubs, including Bright Stars, and are proud sponsors of the Stanbic Black Pirates rugby club.

Otuk maintained that improved sports science and technology are the only gems that will lead to the success of our athletes and different sporting clubs on the continent and worldwide.