January 29, 2013 -
Posted by Jaan Saks
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:
January 13, 2013 -
Posted by Tõnis Saag
Heart rate tracking is important during your workout because it indicates the intensity of your activity. Knowing the intensity is important to because different intensities lead to different adaptation processes in your body. For example, higher intensities must be compensated with lower intensities or they may lead to overtraining and stagnation of performance. This guide will help you connect Zephyr HxM™ BT Heart Rate Monitor to Sportlyzer Android app.
January 5, 2013 -
Posted by Tõnis Saag
According to our research, athletes log training with expectations to compare their condition to the past, to discover effective training methods and have a basis for planning upcoming periods.
December 21, 2012 -
Posted by Tõnis Saag
When a training season has ended, every sports team takes a step back to assess its results and design a plan for the upcoming season. Here’s a step-by-step guide of how to design an annual training plan with Sportlyzer coaching software.
December 13, 2012 -
Posted by Jaan Saks
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.
December 8, 2012 -
Posted by Tõnis Saag
How cold temperatures are OK for exercising outdoors? How the concurrence of wind and frost affects you? What kind of wind strength is still safe? How to combine pieces of outdoor clothing according to wind chill factor? How can one recognize the signs and symptoms of hypothermia and frostbyte?
December 5, 2012 -
Posted by Jaan Saks
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*.
September 27, 2012 -
Posted by Tõnis Saag
Mobile apps have been by far the most demanded functionality of Sportlyzer and at last our iPhone and Android apps are available at app stores. Our initial apps (BETA – early version) are developed to help you keep your training log updated on the go. You can log your training manually, track your training with GPS and log your daily metrics.
September 27, 2012 -
Posted by Tõnis Saag
We were looking for indepth understanding why athletes log their training or why they quit doing it. As there was no such research available, we had to do it ourselves. 230 athletes answered 110 questions and we put some interesting facts into this awesome infographic.
September 25, 2012 -
Posted by Tõnis Saag
Keeping a training log does not mean just marking down how much, at what intensity and what activity did you do. There are many other factors included and this post focuses on one of them – the daily metrics that you can log in Sportlyzer online training log.
