The last few months have been quite busy with a lot of backend development happening around the site as well as the Beta version of the iPhone/iTouch Kinetic-Athlete application. The list below outlines the new key features to the GymAware/Kinetic-Athlete site; click on the title to read more. If you have any questions regarding the features please contact us.
Key feature updates:
Video Tutorials
Video tutorials highlighting some of the key functionality of the site can now be accessed by clicking the Tutorial link in the top navigation.
The tutorials will be continuously updated and at present cover:
- Anthropometry - setting the body mass and skinfold range
- How to compare and overlay sets and reps
- Introduction to the Dashboard
- How to Delete reps
- How to edit data - change date, exercise and athlete one data is uploaded
- How to create Exercise test lists for use in the gym
- Introduction to the GymAware Reporter
- How to Register a new Athlete or Coach
- How to Share Squads
- Basic SRM upload
- What are Suspect Results
- Working with Squads
The main Tutorial page has a brief description on each tutorial. You need to click the thumbnail to the left to play the QuickTime movie.
If there are any tutorials that you wish to see, please email
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and we will do one to suit your needs.
Adding Season Blocks
Seasons are made up of one or more season blocks. Each block can be set for a defined period of time and is colour coded. Seasons appear in the Timeline, Calendar, and Weekly views.
How to create a season block:
To access the seasons feature in Kinetic-Athlete, select Seasons from the drop down menu under the Manager menu.
Select the Create button to make a new season or Edit to update an existing season.
From the create season form:
1. Name the season
2. Name the season block
3.Select colour from the drop down menu
3a. Select date range
4. Select SAVE SEASON BLOCK button located on the rhs of the page
Repeat steps 2-3 until all blocks have been created
Now:
5. Select squads from the left list and by using the Add button move to the rhs. This will then display the season block for those athletes/squad
6. Select the Save Season button - this will return you to the initial Seasons page.
Add weblinks to Events
You are now able to include weblinks to Event descriptions. This is useful when scheduling training, or referencing a website. To add a weblink:
- 1. Click on the date on the Dashboard to enter an Event
2. Enter Event details including Title, Type and When
3. In the Notes field, enter the text you wish to be a web link (can be a url as in the example)
This will reveal the link buttons
4. Click on the Link tool to bring up the pop-up window
5. Enter the url you wish to link to
6. Select the Target option from the drop down menu
7. Name the link (this will appear as the mouseover in the Calendar view)
8. Click Insert
9. Select Users from the list on the right (these are the people whom you wish to add to this Event)
10. Click Apply
The Event will now appear in the Calendar view, and reveal the weblink when moused over.
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Permissions (GymAware Lite, GymAware Pro & Kinetic-Athlete)
With the latest release we have improved the differentiation between each online product. GymAware now has two distinct versions, GymAware lite and GymAware pro.
GymAware Lite is the base level. It serves as a good starting point for users who are interested in performing power measurements on exercises in the Gym.
Then online software and service is offered free for this level of users.
GymAware Pro - Is targeted at professional coaches who use the system on a regular basis and wish to take advantage of the time saving function of summary report templates, personal bests and normative results.
The online software service and enhanced service is supplied for an annual service fee.
Further to these two options the extended capability of the Kinetic-Athlete online athlete performance management software continues to gain momentum.
Kinetic-Athlete is for coaches who wish to capture, organise and analyse the key ingredients of athletic performance all within the one secure online application.
With Kinetic-Athlete users can;
- Manage multiple squads of athletes
- Track & report injuries & illness
- Receive direct athlete feed back on wellness & perception
- Monitor training load & intensity via RPE measures
- Track & categorise recovery methods
- Set thresholds for flags & automatic alerts
- Prescribe and communicate training and recovery strategies to remote athletes
- Record anthropometric measures such as height, weight & skin-folds
- Visualise summary information across squads and athletes
- Set targets & ranges for body mass & skin-folds
- Integrate directly with GymAware results
Stay tuned, as we have an exciting new development to unveil in the near future
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