About five minutes. This tells us whether your center's data can answer the questions we're trying to answer, and what you'd get back. This form itself asks nothing about any individual member.
What you get back
Before any research question, you get a free audit of your own Spectrum account — the fields nobody checks, on your members.
We ran it on ours and it was uncomfortable. Baseline T-score was blank for 479 of 499 members. Protocol was empty on every single one. And 83% of members with 20+ sessions had one bodyweight on file, ever — which matters, because MOB is force divided by bodyweight. If the weight is two years stale, every multiple-of-bodyweight number your coaches have been showing those members is wrong.
You also get your center’s retention curve and expected-gain bands against the pooled benchmark, and a position-drift audit by station. Yours to use however you like.
1 · Your center
Training exposure is what makes a member analyzable. Rough numbers are fine.
If a machine changed, force numbers can step up or down on that date for reasons that have nothing to do with the member. We need to know so we don't read it as progress.
One-and-done trial visits sit in Spectrum looking like members who quit. We strip them out, but only if we know they're there.
Gaps in the data are fine. Gaps we don't know about get misread as members drifting away.
2 · Bone scanning
This is the section that decides everything. A single scan can only set a baseline — it can't show change. Pairs are what matter.
The model matters less than whether it's the same unit every time.
Change smaller than the device's precision error is noise, not progress. Under 12 months rarely clears it.
Even an informal list is useful. Known responders are where we start looking for what they did differently.
3 · How you coach
Two centers can log identical force numbers and be running completely different programs. This is what tells us which is which.
This is the single most valuable answer on the form. Position is the dose, and nobody has been controlling for it.
4 · What else you record
If these aren't captured, we can describe what happened but never why. They can't be reconstructed later.
5 · Terms, plainly
Two things you should know before you go further — one is a requirement, one is a promise.
Required: participation means giving us access to your Spectrum account so we can pull the session data ourselves. A read-only user on your location is ideal and you can revoke it at any time. We ask for this because manual exports are work for you and arrive in inconsistent shapes.
About member names: we should be straight with you — your Spectrum account does contain member names, so they will pass through our hands when we pull the data. They are replaced with a code number at the point of import, the name list is never used for anything, and no member name ever appears in any analysis, report or publication. We do not collect member contact details at all.
Our promise: your data is never shared with any other center, never used for marketing, and never sold. It is used for research only. Anything published is pooled and de-identified, and your center is never named without your written say-so.
This form collects nothing about individual members. See section 5 for how member data in your Spectrum account is handled.
