Do you know the current training state of your team? Are they in:

• Full Training
• Modified Training
• Rehabilitation
• Rest Day

Daily Training State

On a daily basis this information is essential, as it tells you instantly what’s going on with your team, even if they are spread around the world. Armed with this information, you can plan your day based on the state of the team.

This information is available to you as soon as it has been entered by you, another staff member, or the athlete. Its all in the dashboard of your mobile device.

Monthly Training State

On a monthly basis its even more valuable. A full training training status report at the end of the month tells you a lot about the state of your team:

• How much full training was achieved
• How many days were lost to illness or injury
• Is the team getting enough rest
• How many athletes are compliant in their monitoring

  

View the full report pdf  file here.

How Do I Get the Training Status Report?

Its very easy for you to start monitoring training state. Just contact us and we’ll set it all up as part of your Kinetic-Athlete account. You can set up any training states you need, they’re fully customisable.

When its set up your athletes will see this button on their iPhones or you, as performance manger, will see it on your device to enter when you see the athletes.

Then to enter training state you just need to select the state.

Once you start collecting training state then you are good to go. You will receive updates in your dashboard and you’ll be able to produce training state reports with the reporting tool.

Contact us if you would like to try it out.

New in 1.7

The new app is available now on the App Store.

Check out some of the new features in this release. Click on the pics below for full size screen shots.

This is a great time saver as you only need to enter the type and duration once. Then you just select each athlete to enter their rating.

Need to add an athlete on the fly? No problem you can update athlete details or add new athletes from your iPhone or iPad. Athletes can also update their own details so you don’t need to chase them up.

Some users were accidentally creating multiple entries. This dialog will pop up to make sure the user is doing what they intend to do.

Illnesses and injuries typically require more than one day to recover. This is why these types of events need to be opened at the beginning and then closed when the athlete recovers. You can now do this very simply with a tap of a button on your iPhone.

Improve compliance with a personal message to motivate the athletes that are not meeting their monitoring obligations.

Now you can see new comments right on the dashboard. Simple and effective communication.

See your answers as you progress through the form. It’s a small thing but it makes a big improvement in usability.

No iPhone? No problem!

You can now log in with any mobile phone web browser to access a simple mobile interface to enter your data. When you log in just select either tablet or mobile entry after entering your password.

New login for Android smart phones and tablets

Simple Faster Data Entry

The new mobile interface uses HTML5 mobile browsing features to give you a streamlined screen to enter your data.

Browser Compatibility Tip

If you are having any problems interacting with the new interface it may be a problem with the browser you are using. You can always try a different one to see which one works best on your phone. Here is a list of the top 5 browsers.

Give Us Your Feedback

This is just version 1. Help us make it work for you. Contact us with any feedback, bug reports etc.

Is there a tool that does everything you want? With easy data collection and all the reporting and analysis methods you need?

If you are at the top end of sport then the answer has to be “No, of course not!” If there was, then we would have a level playing field with no place for innovation. We can’t build a tool that does everything simply because everything hasn’t been done yet. If you are a sports performance specialist then you will be constantly refining and developing your craft. You are in constant competition with your peers on other teams and your success is measured by results. Many of you are happy to share your successes with us so that we can adapt Kinetic Athlete to support the way you work. This is a two way transaction that helps you by speeding up your work and helps us by targeting our development.

By speeding up your day to day work, you get more time to spend on being innovative, more time to spend on beating the opposition! In order to try out new things you need to have easy access to all of your data so that you can manipulate it in Excel or your favourite stats package. We encourage our users export and experiment with their data and have provided a powerful export tool that gives you precise control of the data you want, from when, and how you want it formatted. If you are into Excel then this is the tool for you.

We encourage our users export and experiment with their data and have provided a powerful export tool for this.

Build kinetic Athlete into your performance program by branding it with your own logo.

Your logo adds a professional touch and gives athletes ownership. It makes them feel like they have a full support team behind them. It’s just one of the little things you can do that has a significant impact on the image your performance team projects to the athletes.

Contact us if you would like to brand your Kinetic Athlete app with your logo. For a small fee we will incorporate your logo into a design for the sync screen. Then we will load it on to the server so that then next time your athletes sync they will get the screen automatically downloaded and installed on their iPhone or iPad. It’s that simple!

We are very pleased to announce this major release of the Kinetic Athlete iOS app. This release incorporates dozens of user requested features and enhancements. The new features give you more access to your data and more ways to customise the way you collect it. On top of the list is the new athlete dashboard. This powerful new tab on the bottom of your screen gives you instant access to the information you need about your athletes.

Well have a lot more about this new tool in the coming weeks.

There also a whole lot of ways you can drill into your data to really see what’s going on with your team.

Get in touch with us

Existing users wanting help in setting up the new features can call us now!

Quick Overview of the new features in V 1.6

Personalised Sync page Own the application by putting your team logo on the sync page – contact us!

Form incomplete A list of players that have not submitted feedback today -select them and enter results.

Training state Groupings See who is in “Full training”, “Modified training”, Rehabilitation, or who is having a rest day - select a player and view their recent history.

Alerts Now in the dashboard with drill down so you can see all the data leading up to the alert.

Training load For each player – calculated from intensity x duration - Select a player and view a graph of the training load for past few weeks ( requires active internet connection)

Illness’s Any current players with illness’s are grouped and listed – you can elect to close the illness should the player be recovered -click the player to view the details of the illness.

Injuries any current players with injuries are grouped and listed – you can elect to close the injury should the player be recovered - click the player to view the details of the illness.

NOTE: Both injury and illness events now stay open (active)- so once an injury or illness is entered, it will say there until it is actively closed.
this differs form the previous method in that the injury or illness had to be re-entered each day

Comments Any comment in the past 24hrs from players within the squad display here - coaches can select the players with a comment and elect to reply to the comments, The coaches reply can be viewed by the player directly on their iphone via their individual login.

Medical notes Any players that have recent medical notes added with display in a list here.

History Coaches can select a player from the squad list and view the recent history for them. This section lists and displays all the key events and entries about the player for the past few weeks
Coaches can select a feedback form for example, then select a question and drill into it to view a graph. This feature is also available for training load and body mass entries
( requires active internet connection)

Dash Attachments Files can be sent to your dashboard or the athletes for viewing on the device, great for programmes and reports.

Muti-select option You can now set up fields to be multi select – greater flexibility in recording all the information you need

All events configurable You now have all the flexibility you need, everything is configurable!

We recently spoke to one of our clients about the relative value of objective vs subjective athlete monitoring. They currently have a strong focus on objective performance monitoring (using GymAware) but they had a number of reservations about the value of subjective athlete monitoring.

Their reservations centred around using athlete reported (subjective) information to dictate what the athlete should be doing or not doing in their training and competition.

Their concern was that athletes could misreport to gain rest days, softer training or other benefits.

Subjective feedback ..Naturally people look for the easiest path…Nobody wants to take the hard road… But the hard road is where you create your success. No short cuts.. Man up and train hard, it’s going to hurt and we expect you to feel sore…

We agree. If all you do is subjective monitoring and you base all your decision making on this data, then there is a high risk of athletes learning to ‘game the system’ to get what they want.

But when you add the skill and experience of your performance team in to the mix, you get a different story. Then subjective monitoring can be effectively combined with objective performance tests (power, sit and reach, sprint times, etc) observations and athlete contact to get a far bigger picture. Experienced staff will quickly identify athletes trying to game the system and will take action to correct ‘attitude problems’

Sports professionals use subjective monitoring to inform their decisions - not to make them!

Where Subjective Data is Valuable

Think about some of these reported results:

Poor sleep last night – no big deal

Poor sleep for last 5 nights and high level of perceived fatigue  - Hmm, could be a problem here, better go and talk to the athlete for see what’s up.

Athlete reporting soreness after hard training session – good! that’s what we wanted!

Athlete reporting increasing soreness over 5 days despite recovery sessions – Not so good, better look into possible causes and maybe modify training.

In all these cases there is no “get out of training free card”. Instead the performance team are given a quick snapshot of how the athlete is travelling, then depending on where they are in the training program, they can decide if any action needs to be taken.

Athlete monitoring is a tool for sports performance professionals.

Its primary purpose is to enhance communication and to inform decision making.

Power Monitoring and Training for Power.

So important it needs a whole new website to do it justice.

Now is the time to find out how measuring power can supercharge your performance program:

• Measure Power to Determine the State of the Athlete
• Motivate Athletes with Instant Feedback While They Train
• Train for Power and Velocity
• Ensure Recovery by Measuring the Return of Power Not Just Strength

Integrated with Kinetic-Athlete

Use GymAware to compliment you athlete monitoring program.

Power measurements in the gym are an ideal objective performance indicator to add value to the subjective data collected with Kinetic-Athlete.

The higher athletes are made to perform the greater the risk of failure through injury

Performance capability is the currency of modern sport

It is the capital of competitive teams.

It exists within each athlete, the coach, and the performance staff. Its dollar value is a combination of the salary budget and the sponsorship value of success.

Since sport is business, a team’s ability to manage this currency, to grow and invest in it, is a measure of how successful the team will be both on the field, and in the wider business arena.

Some teams can afford to buy performance capability with unlimited budgets and no salary caps. But the majority have to identify and invest in talent and grow their own performance capability. The success of these teams depends on how well they can do this. That’s why the coach and performance staff are a vital element of the teams overall performance. While coaches have long been recognised, the role of performance staff, in managing the teams most valuable asset, is only now gaining the priority it deserves. The performance team has a huge responsibility, not only are they charged with managing millions of dollars worth of performance, they have to deal with the fact that the keys to this performance are locked inside of living breathing athletes! The decisions they make daily can have a profound effect on the athletes’ career and welfare.

Just like any business endeavour the return on investment is directly related to the risk.

The higher athletes are made to perform the greater the risk of failure through injury, illness or burnout. Managing for Performance is all about keeping your best players on the field at sustainable performance levels. Sports professionals know that more isn’t always better, they know that injury or illness often follow PB’s and indeed PB’s often follow forced rest due to illness(or smart performance programming!). They also know that you can’t win games when key players are out.

To consistently maintain the fine balance between peak performance and failure you need to monitor the risk factors leading to failure and poor performance, then moderate or adjust load, recovery, and other factors to get the performance you need at the appropriate level of risk depending on what stage of the competition you are in.

Do you want to know how many people were injured in the last month and what percentage of these were ACLs and what percentage were hamstrings?

OR

Would you like to know who in your team is at higher risk of injury or poor performance  RIGHT NOW?
To win tomorrow’s game, you need information today, on the state of your athletes.

What you really need is a performance dashboard right on your phone, that’s up to the minute with information about your athletes

You need to know who is:

• Sore
• Stressed
• Unmotivated
• Over loaded

And who has:

• Poor nutrition
• Lack of sleep
• Low performance results

You will want to see training status for each athlete such as:

• Full
• Modified
• No training
• Rehab

Then you’ll want to check on who is currently injured or ill and what training modifications their doctor or physio recommends.
And you will want all of this in your in your back pocket while you do your job!
And of course you want this to be:

• Customised to the way you work
• Dead simple to use
• Accessible by your  iPhone or iPad

So what you really need is a performance dashboard right on your phone, that’s up to the minute with information about your athletes