Athlete Blueprint: Five Steps to Personalized Training
What Is the Athlete Blueprint?
No one understands the nature of statistics better than athletes. They’re the ultimate
sports data.
Each day you check your team’s numbers – as a whole and for individual players – and
over the course of the season, this dataset tells you the story of the team’s entire
journey.
But what if an athlete could get that kind of evolving picture of something even more
important?
Themselves.
Not just how many points they scored or how fast they finished, but how their body
moves. Where they generate power. How well they control movement. Where they have
an opportunity to improve.
And what if that information didn’t end with a full report, but actually helped determine
what the athlete should do next? How much could an athlete learn about themselves –
as a performer and a person – by having information like that?
We have good news.
It’s available.
And it’s right here at Chiron.
The Athlete Blueprint.
The Athlete Blueprint from Chiron Sports Performance, developed by Chiron co-founder
Dr. Chibuzo “Casey” Ohanaja (also known as Dr. Oh), has evolved over several years –
starting with Dr. Oh’s involvement in the NBA’s development program.
The elements of this Blueprint were finalized in early 2026.
A massive step forward for athletes in understanding and assessing their own
performance and capabilities, the Athlete Blueprint is an ever-evolving, ongoing guide to
understanding an athlete’s growth and development process. And we bring it to life
through a combination of physician-led evaluation, high-tech testing, scientific analysis,
and continuous monitoring.
Best of all, the information is easy for athletes to access, understand, and put to work.
It’s the most powerful tool developed for the people who take to the field, the court, the
track, or any other sport.
The process of developing the Athlete Blueprint starts with a five-part assessment:
1. The athlete interview
2. The physician evaluation
3. Clinical baselines
4. A movement assessment
5. Performance lab testing.
From these steps, Dr. Oh and the Chiron team assess, and the Athlete Blueprint is born.
Each Blueprint is broken down into six pillars of an athlete’s condition. Those six pillars
are:
1. Control: Stability, coordination, and the ability to maintain quality movement.
2. Speed: How the athlete accelerates, reacts, and moves efficiently.
3. Resilience: The ability to tolerate physical demand and continue performing.
4. Elasticity: How effectively the athlete absorbs, stores, and returns energy.
5. Power: The athlete’s ability to produce force and express it explosively.
6. Readiness: How prepared the athlete is to train, compete, adapt, and recover.
These pillars are important, and they weren’t chosen because they make for interesting
measurements.
“Based on my practice in sports medicine and my research, those are the key pillars
that hone in on athlete development and health,” Dr. Ohanaja said. “Over a long period
of time, these stats are going to tell you how well their tissues perform in sports, how
their medical history impacts them, and how certain key factors like how they move in
different directions relates to injury risk factors.”
That medical history is an important part of the bigger picture. During the physician
evaluation, Dr. Oh looks at the whole athlete – reviewing past and current injuries,
sports-related concerns, overall health and wellness, and other medical factors that
could influence performance or development. The context helps shape both the initial
assessment and the Athlete Blueprint, connecting an athlete’s performance goals with
their broader health needs.
And, when appropriate, it can also work alongside the athlete’s existing physicians and
healthcare providers so medical care and athletic development remain connected rather
than operating separately.
Other health factors assessed in this process are blood pressure, cardiovascular health,
and how fluid distributes along with a player’s body composition.
What Your Assessment Reveals
Your Data Matters
The Athlete Blueprint isn’t designed to be a list of everything “wrong” with an athlete. In
fact, it’s quite the opposite. One of the first things Dr. Oh wants an athlete to understand
is what they already do well.
Maybe the data shows an area of exceptional strength, movement, or power. That
matters because those qualities can be protected and developed – and they may
explain what the athlete already feels while playing their sport.
Then come the opportunities.
An athlete may discover a physical quality with room for improvement. Perhaps
movement reveals something worth addressing. The Blueprint will put all of these
findings into context.
This collection of data gives each athlete a deeper and more precise look at where they
stand – making it the ideal array of information to form an action plan on strengths,
opportunity, and why it matters for their sport. It will also address how to prevent injuries,
improve performance, and ensure swift and smooth recovery.
How Your Blueprint Guides Personalized Training
The Next Step
Out of this process comes a full report – usually available within two days – including a
full action plan. But receiving the Blueprint isn’t the end of the process. It’s where
development begins.
When the athlete returns to Chiron to train, the team will review the Blueprint, answer
questions, and connect their findings to an athlete’s training plan.
Then the training begins. No longer is an athlete doing exercises because they
happened to be on their workout list. There is a reason behind the plan. And because a
sports medicine physician is part of the Chiron system, the plan can change if an athlete
does.
If soreness develops, the team responds. If injury occurs, training is modified. Recovery
is always incorporated, and each athlete will leave with exercises and mobility work as
homework.
Then when the athlete comes back, Chiron keeps watching.
How Reassessment Tracks Your Progress
The Blueprint is Alive
The Blueprint is not a one-time report. It’s a living, breathing look at where an athlete
stands, and it’s updated every time the athlete comes in for a fresh assessment, which
can range from a month to 12 weeks depending on the activity of an athlete.
When strengths become stronger, opportunities improve, and new needs may emerge
as the athlete continues to develop. This is why the Blueprint changes.
And the Blueprint doesn’t only belong to Chiron.
“The Blueprint is also for coaches, parents, or anybody else who is involved with the
athletes’ training or skills coaching,” Dr. Oh said. “The purpose of me creating the
Blueprint the way I did was to make it relatable to the athlete as well as the coaches.”
The Blueprint is also helpful if multiple athletes are assessed. Dr. Oh explained that
coaches who send multiple players to Chiron might pick up on trends and tendencies
that could be addressed at a team-wide level.
“They can utilize that information and it can be a key piece of their offseason,
preseason, or in-season development program,” Dr. Oh said.
The Blueprint is never designed to replace a coach’s expertise, but gives them another
piece of information to work with.
Putting Your Athlete Blueprint Into Action
The Numbers Tell the Story
That brings us back to those sports statistics.
The reason athletes pay attention to numbers isn’t really the numbers themselves, it’s
what the numbers reveal. Progress. Trends. Strengths. Opportunities. Change.
The Athlete Blueprint applies the same idea to the athlete rather than solely focusing on
the athlete’s performance on a scoreboard.
Five steps establish the picture. Six pillars organize what Chiron learns. And training
puts that information to work while reassessment keeps the picture current.
“The best way to use the Blueprint is to go through and recognize that there are
opportunities and strengths for you as an athlete, even the things you’re really strong at,
and why it’s related to the sport you’re playing,” said Dr. Oh. “Every athlete comes in
with their own particular history and their own particular nuances, and these
opportunities are the ones that can separate them from the level they’re at and move
them to the next level in performance and longevity.”
The most useful Blueprint isn’t the one that tells an athlete exactly who they are today.
It’s the one that helps them understand where they can go next.