Sportlyzer tutorials

All Sportlyzer tutorials have been updated and moved to our Help Center.

Creating club profiles and groups

If you are a coach at your club then a) you already have created or someone has invited you to a club (and to specific training groups) in Sportlyzer or b) you need to create an online club profile and set up training groups yourself.

Copy-paste individual trainings, one day or the whole week

As a new feature, copy-paste function for training planning is now available in Sportlyzer. After creating the plan for current week, when you need to use a similar plan for the next week, just copy and paste the week and make necessary modifications later. Let’s take a closer look.

How to assign coach and admin rights to club members?

Created a club and now want to assign coach and admin rights to members? Go to your club’s Dashboard view. There is a gear-wheel-like ‘user management’ button behind every User (on the right side of the page). Click it and choose either ‘Make coach‘ or ‘Make admin‘ or both.

Add members to your club

You have created your own club profile in Sportlyzer but do not have any athletes in it yet? Don’t worry, here’s a quick tutorial of how to add members to your club.

Various languages now available for Sportlyzer

Thanks to our friends and Sportlyzer users, many languages have already been translated. Here’s a quick overview of our progress (as of 26 August 2013):

How to change your language in Sportlyzer

Are you using Sportlyzer in a foreign language? Why not go to the ‘settings’ menu and start using it in your mother tongue?

5 Things That Every Coach Should Explain to Parents About Supporting Their Kids

Parents are their children’s first and permanent teachers, but how can you as a coach guide this powerful potential? – In this blog post we discuss some essential issues that you can tell parents to support their children’s physical and athletic development. First, in order to succeed in educating the parents, it is inevitable to keep in mind two presumptions:

How Could Sports Coaches Avoid Workaholism?

Recently, Kelly Lumpkin from Lee University and Mark Anshel from Middle Tennessee State University published a study about work addiction among college sports coaches¹.  They interviewed 16 NCAA Division 1 sport coaches from the USA.

At bottom, workaholism is not a really positive thing. Although it is sometimes considered as a respectable addiction, it is manifested in low productivity, poor relationships, and serious health problems.

What Makes Sports Coaches Confident?

Sports coaches work hard to make their athletes feel confident and efficient. But what about themselves? In this posting we zoom in on specific competences that determine the self-confidence of sports coaches. It is based on a recently published study of handball coaches*.