Lockdown has had serious implications for physical activity and sport. This video explores through Statera’s planning and event functionality what this might mean for our youth athletes and what we might do about it.

What might look like athlete monitoring in some schools ends up actually just being pseudo-random deployment of technology. Of course, all of the above technology solutions have utility, but technology for technology's sake should not be the driver when deciding what you might want to measure. If it is, your athlete monitoring will falter.

We recently had the pleasure of catching up with Rob Anderson of Athletic Evolution to discuss how we are getting along with the development of Statera. We discuss:

Time for an update!

It feels like there has been a time-distortion field in operation since lockdown. Behind the scenes we’ve been plugging away making Statera more user-friendly, better-looking and ensuring less exciting things such as GDPR compliance.

Andy catches up with Todd Davidson of the Platform to Perform Podcast to discuss Statera and all things youth athletic development

There are any number of excuses as to why you might not have recorded your data for a given session. Without meaningful data being inputted, monitoring and acting upon that information can’t happen - big problem.

The discussion covered what training load is and some of the ways in which you can assess it. It included tips for monitoring training load in various contexts and considerations for doing so during the adolescent growth spurt. Questions were fielded on the value of individualising thresholds, Acute to Chronic Workload Ratios (ACWR) and the future of both research and practice.

Expecting the monitoring of training load and maturation to provide a singular output value that tells you what to do is a red herring. No matter what you measure, how you measure it, who you tell or what you tell them, athletes will still get injured and respond in ways that are not expected or predicted. 

Growth and maturation are two key terms that must be understood in the context of training youth athletes. While they are often lumped together as a catch-all term, despite being related to one another they should actually be considered separately

We are still busy working away making Statera the best it can be, but all things well, we hope to launch around September 2020. In the mean time, please do sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date with the latest on this.