Pulse
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Introduction
There is a disconnect in team fitness tracking. Athletes train to make their team faster, yet fitness platforms focus on tracking individual trends.
We are building Pulse, a team-centric fitness application to enable teams to use data to quantify training effectiveness and prevent overtraining.
Problem
Pulse is providing coaches, athletes, and athletic trainers with necessary data and analysis to measure training effectiveness and prevent overtraining.
There is a huge issue of overuse injuries in collegiate sports, and specifically endurance sports. Coaches are working with 30+ athletes at once and setting general training plans for all individuals. It is extremely time consuming to filter through each individual's training data (if they are even able to access it) to identify session effectiveness or if an athlete is regressing from over training. Athletic trainers support athletes once actually injured. Athletes, especially underclassmen, are unable to distinguish over training with adjusting to university academics and training schedules.
Pulse is a necessary platform for teams to take the guessing out of training and prevent athlete burnout.
Opportunity
Heart rate is the fundamental unit of endurance sports. We train by heart rate zones, with 80% of workouts at 65% maximum heart rate in the UT2 zone.
Pulse makes it easy for teams to succeed at heartrate training. First, pulse offers live heartrate tracking, allowing coaches to see the trajectory of their athletes’ workouts as they train. Armed with this information, coaches can modify workouts on the fly to ensure that each session is spent in its optimal heartrate zone.
Second, coaches can track their team’s progress over the course of a season. This allows coaches to track when their teams approach an unsustainable load and to identify athletes who are at risk of developing injury due to overtraining.
The power of Pulse is in creating a workout plan to produce the most effective training results while minimizing injuries, optimizing the team’s resources.