How Fulham FC get the most out of training with REMAKER
Fulham FC
In the Premier League, matches are decided in the margins. A recovery run that cuts out a counter-attack, a yard of acceleration past a defender, the legs to still produce something in the fifteenth minute of stoppage time. The work that builds those moments happens long before kick-off, in the gym and on the training pitch, and the clubs that win the margins are the ones who can actually measure what they're building.
We sat down with Jack Grinstead, First Team Lead Physical Performance Coach at Fulham Football Club, who has been using REMAKER's MOVE and LINK devices with his squad across this season. He talked us through how the technology reshaped his working week, won over his players, and became, in his words, one of the main ways the club keeps its competitive edge.
Training in the dark
Before REMAKER, Fulham had a problem: lack of reliable data beyond the load.
"There are sets and reps, and you can calculate a load," Jack explained, "but how do you actually quantify the stress players are putting themselves under in a given session, week, or time of the season?" Working from sets, reps, and accumulated load gave him one layer of context, but as he put it, it was always "an element of summation rather than complete, objective data."
The gap he kept running into was live feedback. Telling a player to lift with intent or jump fast works for some, but plenty of athletes need to see it to believe it. "Others need the extra context of live information to understand, 'Actually, I can push harder,' or, 'Wow, I am lifting heavy and working hard.'" And everything that wasn't captured in the moment had to be reconstructed afterwards, which meant hours lost to manual data entry, crunching numbers off whiteboards, photos, and scraps of paper, often unsure whether the result was a true reflection of what the players had actually done.
Real-time feedback changes the session
The shift came from putting the numbers in front of the players as they trained. A season in, the squad knows the metrics Jack targets on each exercise and exactly what they hit last week.
It also lets him coach on the fly. Take a dumbbell countermovement jump programmed at 40 kg: if the first set's speeds are down and the player reports feeling fatigued, the app already knows their normal thresholds and flags a drop-down. The reverse is just as useful. "On a minus-four [four days before a match], if a player hasn't played and needs more of a stimulus, you set it, they push, and you see, 'That's really good, we can probably increase the load.'" The decision gets made there and then, mid-session, rather than two hours later when the chance to act has gone.
"If you've got information that lets you impact the session or the player there and then, that's so valuable," Jack said. "If you wait until the end of the day and look at it retrospectively, that's a missed chance."
The two sessions that matter most
Fulham's week is built around two strength pillars. A quick note on the language coaches use here: training days are counted backwards from match day, so a "minus-four" day falls four days before kickoff and a "minus-two" two days before. The minus-four is the first day of the training week and the biggest strength stimulus, replicated from pitch to gym. The minus-two is speed and power work, where volume drops but intensity climbs to match level. Those are the days Jack tracks hardest, because they're where performance and adaptation are driven.
Two exercises do most of the heavy lifting. The first is the iso-inertial yo-yo squat, which measures how much power a player produces per rep and how well they sustain peak force across two sets of six. It was the exercise that started everything for Jack, and the one he names as the most eye-opening thing he's tracked with the LINK: a long-standing tool for power and force absorption that, until now, he had no reliable way to actually quantify. The second is a loaded countermovement jump on the minus-two, where the whole focus is speed of movement and intent. Both double as profiling tools, giving players a clear sense of where they are and whether the plan needs adjusting.
Players who own their numbers
What surprised Jack most was how completely the squad took ownership. The iPad sits at the station, players select themselves from the drop-down, check the device is connected and green, and go. "The manager is big on individuals taking responsibility and ownership of their own programme, which the REMAKER technology allows."
It also made the gym competitive in the best way. "We've had incidents where three or four players in a row have PB'd on their force production because they wanted to beat the previous person," Jack said. A core group drives it, and the rest feel the pull. "Anything to drive intent is super important in our industry, because everything is about marginal gains. If you can get a player to try that extra 1% or 2%, it's only going to help performance on match day."
Crucially, the feedback changed why players train. The work stopped being a box to tick. "It's not 'I have to do the gym because I'm told to,'" Jack explained. "It's 'I'm doing the gym because it's fundamentally going to help me produce force outside, change direction, accelerate past an opponent, make that recovery run.'" Seeing the forces and speeds they produce opened players' eyes to the transfer, and engagement followed.
A breakthrough season for a young player
The clearest example is a young player new to first-team football: technically excellent, but still maturing, and intimidated by a dressing room full of professionals who had been training for over a decade. Low in what Jack calls "gym age," he found it hard that he couldn't lift what the senior players could.
The data reframed the whole picture. Relative to his body weight, his force production matched, and in some cases bettered, his more experienced teammates. "That gave him the confidence to think, 'I am on my path, I am doing well, I am improving.'" Over three or four weeks he set personal bests on his iso-inertial squat peak force and improved his ability to sustain that force across the whole set.
The season that followed was a breakthrough: more games, more impact, and a player who now says he feels far more physically able to cope with the demands of the Premier League. "We want academy players to come into the first team and succeed, and he's an example of that." He had never disliked the gym, but he'd gone a little within himself in a senior environment. The live feedback helped him embrace it.
Objectivity where it counts
S&C sits between two departments that often pull in opposite directions: a coaching staff who want players back and firing, and a medical team rightly cautious about reinjury. REMAKER gives Jack a shared language. He can show a physio exactly where a player's force output sits relative to before an injury, or tell an eager coach that the numbers aren't quite there yet. "It makes it objective rather than opinion-based on how you feel about a player, which makes the conversation simpler either way."
The same objectivity runs through rehab, where knowing a player's healthy baseline tells everyone precisely what "back to normal" looks like, and gives the athlete confidence they're genuinely progressing.
Faster, lighter, everywhere
For all the depth, the practical wins matter just as much. Setup takes seconds, because the devices connect straight to equipment Fulham already use. Post-session reporting that used to eat hours now lands on the player's profile instantly, or drops into Excel or Power BI in under five minutes. And on preseason tour, where lugging heavy kit between venues is a non-starter, the portability kept the training environment identical from one country to the next.
Asked to describe REMAKER in three words, Jack didn't hesitate: portable, easy to use, instant feedback.
The edge
The job has changed since Jack arrived. Fixture congestion has pushed S&C away from big weekly blocks toward micro-dosing across the week, and toward a level of individualisation where no two players are treated the same. Making good decisions inside those tight windows depends on having reliable information the moment you need it.
"How do you maintain a competitive edge in a league as physically demanding as the Premier League? With REMAKER, honestly. That's one of the main ways."
His advice to any coach still on the fence is blunt. You can track sets, reps, and load without it, "but you can't track anything at a deeper level: the speeds, the forces they're producing, how they drop off or improve across the set." Everything that you assume is working might not be, and you'd never know. "You'd be crazy not to get it."
REMAKER's MOVE and LINK devices bring velocity-based training, jump testing, and isometric profiling into a single, portable ecosystem. To see how REMAKER could fit your team or your athletes, get in touch with us today.
