Club and county teams using Irish tech to replicate pre-season in lockdown!
Club and county GAA teams as well as soccer and rugby clubs, are using the Irish built Actimet platform to help oversee their players individual training sessions and compare intensity levels to other players in their squad, helping coaches work to improve the training each is doing.
Actimet is simplifying the communication path between athlete and coach and also allows messaging from coach to athlete, feedback from the player and the ability to share training plans and schedules.
Founded by two members of the Galway senior hurling management team - Lukasz Kirszenstein (Head of S&C) and Rory McGauran (Head of Perf Analysis) - as well as Souch African Technical Architect, Edward Kaschula, Actimet consists of an easy to use mobile app for the player and web portal for the coach.
Helping to replicate that pre-season effort for players who, right now, are forced to train on their own, information is easily shared via the athelte mobile app and viewed by coaching teams via the coach portal.
Rory McGauran, Head of Operations at Actimet notes: “We’ve seen a dramatic increase of team sign ups this year so far - as coach and management teams are learning more about the power of subjective athlete monitoring where athletes share their perception of training intensity and wellness”.
“The feedback from teams is extremely positive as it is helping all sides stay connected and providing players with a connection to the teams they want to be training for, helping them to be aligned with the rest of their squad and prepared for when they can return as a group”.
McGauran continues, “Clubs are also extremely positive about the wellness function which can be used for, not only a way to measure readiness to train, but also allows players an avenue to highlight if they need any help with stresses from work, home or elsewhere. We have heard of numerous cases where club management and officials were able to act on well being issues highlighted by players - helping them to overcome things they would never have known about if it wasn’t for Actimet.”