Tennessee-based Plyomat helps athletes across the world maximize their potential

Tennessee-based Plyomat helps athletes across the world maximize their potential

When Rich Burnett couldn’t find an affordable, no-nonsense way to measure how high and fast his athletes jumped, he built one himself, by hand, one prototype at a time. A few years later, the testing mat he created, Plyomat, has drawn investment from a pair of Tennessee investors and is turning up in high school, college, and pro weight rooms across the country. For various sports, jump height and reactivity speed matter; for example, reactivity…