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I love the user-friendliness of the
app for both trainers and clients. I
used to have two apps for training
(one for teams and another for
Personal Training), but now I
exclusively use TeamBuildr.
- William I., Personal Trainer
and client health and fitness in the future.
There have never been more wearable
devices in existence and a wider variety
for gym-goers to choose from than today.
However, the biggest obstacle for users
is the ability to process and interpret data
in order to make significant changes to
training, recovery, health habits, etc. In
a controlled study at UCLA, half the
participants received direct feedback
based on their wearable information,
and the other half were left to their
own devices. The group that received
consistent feedback made significant
progress, while the control group showed
some signs of regression toward the
end of the study.
TeamBuildr has made a conscious decision
to integrate fitness wearable data into our
mobile app so that exertion and recovery
metrics can align side by side with
prescribed training and training data.
Providing Insight into the " Other 23 Hours "
While performance coaches have long
emphasized the need to monitor and be
intentional with how time outside of training
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is spent, on-wrist wearables are without a
doubt the best current solution for assessing
stress and recovery behavior " off-facility. "
When athletes and clients are away from
the training facility, coaches often miss out
on how their body responds to the training
they just participated in. How do they
recover? What are the other stressors in
their life that play into their ability to bounce
back between sessions, and how much does
this impact them? In high-school or
collegiate sports, for example, some
student-athletes may have a tough week
of midterms and their heart rate never really
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