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July 3, 2014 Ronan McGann
Metrifit Athlete Monitoring and Well-Being
Sport at every level (elite, professional, amateur, recreational, etc.) is constantly evolving. With this, so is the evolution of technology and its use within sport. New ideas, inventions and systems are being devised and implemented in sport regularly to try and improve such areas as performance, assessment, skill execution, athlete tracking etc. The use of mobile phone technology (MPT) in sport is also an emerging activity. It has already been proven to benefit the business world, and its use is revolutionising sport in certain dimensions. In this article we will examine the way in which MPT is shaping the future of sport.
Looking broadly at the acceptance of MPT into modern sport, we can see that the vast majority of the public (both competing and coaching) have welcomed the idea of its use in sport. It's ease of use and accessibility results in more opportunities for use in sport. In keeping with contemporary trends, the popularity of "apps" being used on phones in sport is increasing. People are becoming more obsessed with monitoring their own levels of fitness, heart rates, performance etc., and with smart phones developing over time, apps are being developed and created to suit the needs of the sporting individual. Apps are also being developed to suit the social aspect of sport – aimed at bringing the sport fanatic "closer to the action". The recent proliferation of apps is largely being driven by the convenience, portability, connectivity, and functionality that the latest generation of mobile devices provide. There is a school of thought that MPT will increase levels of physical activity in the future and therefore will produce health benefits.
From a performance point of view, the introduction of MPT has generally been positive for sport. Generally speaking, researchers and athletes are in favour of technology that provides instant feedback and results – and this is especially true with regards to the use of MPT. Elite coaches are now starting to embrace the idea of technology, and more specifically mobile technology (phones and tablets). Again, the ease of use and the instant data feedback is the most appealing aspect for the coaches. This is starting to incorporate GPS technology as coaches and athletes are beginning to avail of new technology accessible on mobile devices. The accurate and instant results allow coaches to make informed decisions and amendments to their athlete's activities.
MPT has also become more popular in relation to athletes logging information for tracking purposes, e.g. food intake, training, sleep etc. This allows athletes, coaches and sport scientists to collect data, analyse the results and come up with recommendations for the future. This also requires the athlete to have some input into his / her own training schedule.
Information overload can lead to indecisiveness, bad decisions and stress. It's great having lots of important and insightful pieces of athlete information but it is equally important to interpret this and present in a visually pleasing, simple but effective manner. Data is only as powerful as the hands and minds of the people who can make effective use of it.
Metrifit provides a platform or a funnel to channel all relevant data information to form a central hub of the data so that you can report on it and visualise it in an effective manner turning "Data Smog" into Business Intelligence and valuable Data Visualisation.
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Metrifit is an athlete monitoring system that gathers subjective and objective information from both coaches and athletes in a simple but effective manner with intelligent visualization helping coaches and athletes to act on that data. Why not have a look at our Ready to Perform product and gain insight on the physical and mental state of your athletes through our daily wellbeing questionnaire? To find out more visit our Metrifit Product Overview page or get in touch for a free demo.
"Metrifit is an integral part of the set up within the senior and intermediate inter-county Camogie. The data collected daily on the individual players is critical to the decision making of the backroom team including, managers, trainers, selectors, physiotherapist and indeed myself. As a nutritionist it allows me to monitor the quality of the player's diet, energy levels, sleep pattern and overall wellbeing."
Yvonne Treacy
Nutritionist, Wexford Camogie
Metrifit Athlete Monitoring System
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/yvonne-treacy-short/
"I recently started using the Metrifit system and have found it to be a very supportive tool in keeping me focused and accountable to my processes & commitments and on track to reach my goals. I have found it enjoyable and think that it is beneficial to professional golfers and athletes in sport."
Robert Karlsson, Professional Golfer
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/robert-karlsson/
"Metrifit is an outstanding platform to track your athletes' wellness. It's simple to use, easy to implement and gives outstanding information on your athlete's subjective wellness which can be used to assign training loads. I highly recommend Metrifit for any coach looking to begin implementing technology into their program"
Brijesh Patel
Quinnipiac University, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/brijesh-patel/
"The visualisation of data allows for easy discussion between athletes, performance staff and medical teams and offers the potential to predict and avoid issues which could hamper performance. Over the year the data has proven instrumental in our critical decision making. Metrifit is a excellent monitoring tool however the unsung additional aspect is the fantastic and tireless customer support."
Robert Walsh
Strength Coach
Nederlandse Ski Vereniging (Netherlands Ski/Snowboard Team)
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/robert-walsh-short-testimonial/
"Gaelic football is an intermittent high-intensity collision-based field sport requiring high levels of endurance, strength, power, agility, and speed as well as proficiency with gaelic-related skills. These components comprise the training modalities used at the elite level and the monitoring of such a vast range of modalities is central to peak performance. The athlete monitoring tool Metrifit allows us to do this and can keep us one step ahead of our competitors."
Jason McGahan
Sports Scientist, Kildare Football, PhD Sports Science Researcher
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/jason-mcgahan/
"When our players have been only training with the national team Metrifit allows me to liaise very closely with our conditioning coaches to manage load and intensity of training during training camps. I recommend it to anyone who wants an easy to use monitoring system."
Dave Passmore
Head Coach, Irish Hockey
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/dave-passmore-short/
"Metrifit is an amazingly easy-to-use yet comprehensive monitoring tool for training and recovery! The elite athletes we work with are able track and monitor their situations and states daily, in order to maximize their performance loads and recovery practices. This also helps our coaches customize the training programs ‎more effectively. I'd recommend this for any serious team / athlete or coach in wanting to bring out the very best in their long-term performances! "
Edgar K. Tham
Founder and Chief Sport & Performance Psychologist, SportPsych Consulting (Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines)
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/edgar-k-tham-2/
"The cutting edge technology of Metrifit enables Managers, Coaches and Players to use this innovative technology to gain these crucial percentage points over their opponents in a technologically advanced yet easy to use web-based platform. The data collated on a daily basis greatly informs Management Teams while the educational aspect of the system really appeals to modern day athletes who are constantly looking for that extra edge."
Cian O'Neill
Kildare Senior Football Manager
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/cian-oneill-short/
"I wanted to reach out to thank Metrifit for an extremely successful season. Our Regis University women's side won the ultra-competitive RMAC with a 11-0-1 record. Our student-athletes reported in post-season interviews the positive use of Metrifit that enabled their own reflection about their bodies and also found value providing information to coaches for our strategic planning purposes. On more than one occasion, we recognized deviations from norms and were able to step-in with a quick chat to help a player get back on track or refer her to the proper support personnel for further assistance. Fantastic! "
J.B. Belzer
Head Coach, Women's Soccer at Regis University
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/jb-belzer/
"I've found Metrifit an invaluable resource. Not only to monitor daily wellness, readiness to train and training load within the squad, but also to monitor training load externally with additional external squads. Furthermore, Metrifit has acted as a key teaching tool, allowing young athletes associate good sleeping, eating and recovery habits to an improved sense of wellness and thus superior on-field performance."
Tommy Mooney
Strength and Conditioning Coach at DCU Sport and with Dublin Minor GAA
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/tommy-mooney-short/
"Metrifit provides immediate insight and feedback on the physical and mental states of the student-athletes. It allows us to adjust practices and training sessions to accurately meet needs. We have been able to identify potential injury concerns, track current injury status and monitor return to play progress."
Kari Thompson
Head Volley Ball Coach, Southern Illinois University
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/kari-thompson/
"The Metrifit RTP platform is an excellent tool to monitor, evaluate and make the right decisions for your athlete's well being and performance. It enables coaches and athletes to track and sift through all the variables that underpin well being and performance on a day to day basis and to address an issue or potential issue in real time. A simply wonderful product."
Dr. Dale Richardson
CEO Achieve Total Performance Pty Ltd
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/dale-richardson/
"Metrifit has become a multifactorial platform that has helped up us provide deeper context to the decisions that we make on a daily basis in regards to the physical development of our student-athletes. We have intimately been utilizing both the subjective wellness questionnaire along with player training load data to drive professional conversation and actionable tasks to enhance the sporting results and quality of life for our student-athletes with unparalleled success."
Kevin Schultz
Associate Director of Strength & Conditioning
Director of Olympic Strength & Conditioning
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/kevin-schultz-full/
"Metrifit has been used to gain a more in-depth insight into our student-athlete's progressive athletic development and balance relative to their particular sporting and training activities, academic studies and total load. Metrifit doesn't just help with optimising our Sports Scholarship students' athletic performance. It assists us in helping them get the balance right between their sporting activities and academic studies."
Richard Deuchrass
Lincoln University Athletic Performance Manager
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/richard-deuchrass/
"As a school that cannot spend large amounts of money on athlete monitoring, Metrifit has provided us with a great tool for monitoring stress and athlete readiness at a great rate. Being athlete driven, we're able to get buy-in from the athlete, and drive individual or team wide conversations regarding lifestyle and performance education in the direction needed. Seeing acute and chronic stress on a real-time basis has greatly improved the way we schedule workouts and arrange travel during the season."
Derek Bol
Strength & Conditioning Coach, Valparaiso University
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/derek-bol/
"We have been using Metrifit for the past season at Cornish Pirates. It has been greatly beneficial for us to have our wellness and load management data on one easy to access system. We have found this invaluable over the past season whereby Coaches, Physios and Strength and conditioning coaches can monitor both the psychological and physiological load of our athletes on a daily basis."
Paul Cremin
Head Physiotherapist, Cornish Pirates Rugby Club
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/paul-cremin-short/
"The ability to acutely monitor stress and recovery and make the correct adjustments was critical to our health and performance throughout the NCAA tournament. Metrifit has a very strong educational component. With the information we get, I am able to clearly understand the habits and behaviors of our athletes, and how they may be impacting performance."
Erik Helland
Director of Strength & Conditioning and Head Strength Coach Men's basketball, University of Wisconsin
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/erik-helland/
"The holistic approach of medical, physical, emotional and even tech/tactical; bringing together what we need to monitor and evaluate our University players. "If you can't measure it – it doesn't exist." I know we were the first Canadian University to use the program and I know many more will be asking for it in the future! I highly recommend Metrifit."
Tino Fusco, B.Sc. ChPC
Head Coach, Women's Soccer, Mount Royal University (Canada)
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/tino-fusco-b-sc-chpc/
"Our coaches through Metrifit basically have an 'X-ray' vision into the habits and lifestyles and stressors their athletes have on a day to day basis, especially when they are not together. Thus the professional authentic relationships created through the casual conversations, reflection process and application provided is priceless."
Head Strength and Conditioning Co-ordinator,Noblesville High School
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/brian-clarke/
"The success of young athletes using Metrifit was an interesting challenge in the Elite Soccer space… After six months of learning, creating habit with teenagers the project is a huge success…. 90% completion rate has allowed us deal with all the key KPI's that are needed in their development. In our space with developing athletes…Metrifit is a godsend and is the most important tool in this space."
Niall O'Driscoll
Academy Directory, SJ.B (St. Joseph's Bray ) Academy
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/niall-odriscoll-short/
"What's more impressive is the ability to utilize the basics but at the same time have the capability to explore detailed and intricate correlative data points that helps us as coaches gain the most from our athletes. Metrifit has also served as an easy communications hub to ensure essential information is passed to the appropriate team. We are excited to what the future from Metrifit will bring."
Michael Torres
CEO, Shift Performance, Miami
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/michael-torres-short/
"Metrifit has been hugely beneficial in supporting our coaches and back room staff to track and monitor our players training loads, performance and readiness to train. Having a one-stop shop for collating all relevant information across a holistic picture of the player allows us to help prevent burnout, injury and provide timely feedback and communication to all."
Kerry Senior Football, Manager
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/eamonn-fitzmaurice/
"While working with the Clare Senior Hurling team (2012-2014), Horse Sport Ireland (U25 European Eventing Champions) and currently with the Limerick Senior Hurling Team, Metrifit provides our team with critical information across a number of essential aspects of elite athletic performance. You don't really know how your players are responding to training stimuli unless you have daily data and Metrifit provides and easy to use and highly effective means of finding this critical information."
Joe O'Connor
NISUS Fitness, S&C Coach Clare Senior Hurling, Horse Sport Ireland and Limerick Senior Hurling
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/joe-oconnor/
"Metrifit has enabled us to bring to life the complexiities associated with managing the academic, pastoral and sporting demands of pupils aged 13 - 18 in a UK day and boarding school environment It has provided another bridge between coaches and sports pupis, giving pupils a space to provide honest self reflection on wellbeing and providing coaches a head start on appropriate freshness and fatigue balance across the school week."
Athletic Development Coach, MSc ASCC
Millfield School, UK
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/graham-williams-short/
"Metrifit has been instrumental in helping our international Managers, Coaches and Medical teams to identify players who require modifications in training loads or who are struggling with some aspect of their preparation for, or recovery from, training and matches. One of the big strengths of this technology is that it allows our Managers and Medical teams to monitor players both during international competition and outside of these times."
Dan Horan
Head of Fitness for International Football/Fitness Coach Men's Senior Team
Football Association of Ireland
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/dan-horan-short/
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