Athletics Australia announces new live training platform, enabling coaches to train athletes anywhere.

Athletics Australia is excited to announce that accredited coaches are now able to access a new interactive coaching platform, Welcome Fit.

 

Coaches have athletes spread across cities, the state, country and even the world. 

 

For the first time, there’s a purpose-built solution for performing live strength and skills-based exercises with remote athletes.

 

Welcome Fit stood out to Athletics Australia Coaching Coordinator, Blair Taylor, for its ability to be highly engaging and interactive, and also allowing coaches to train athletes 1-1 or in groups, no matter where athletes are.

 

“When a coach is face-to-face with an athlete, they can see how someone is responding to a certain cue and adjust their feedback on the fly based on how the athlete is responding” explains Taylor.

 

“We see great potential in Welcome Fit’s ability to let the coach change camera views, because it enables them to optimize the athlete’s quality of movement and training effectiveness”.

 

Using Welcome Fit, a coach can push a button and allow the athlete to see themselves full screen, like exercising in front of a mirror to the gym. 

 

To demonstrate a drill, the coach can push a HD video of the drill to the athlete and play it on a loop, they can also make themselves full screen to provide specific feedback or progress/regress the drill as required. 

 

The views also include a side-by-side view, where the coach and athlete might perform a drill or exercise together. It’s very engaging”. 

 

Simon Glendenning, Founder of Welcome Fit was very excited to be partnering with Athletics Australia.

 

“I grew up competing in Little Aths from under 8’s and have just started competing in Masters track events” said Glendenning.  “We’re really proud and excited to be in a position to help support coaches and athletes around Australia and would really like to thank Athletics Australia for their openness to embracing technology which can add value from grassroots through to the elite level”.

 

“Hopefully we can help nurture the next wave of Track and Field Olympic and World Champions”.

 

Athletics Australia will be using Welcome Fit to provide remote access to live mentoring, coaching Q/A’s and workshops, including the upcoming national coaching conference which is being held in Townsville in June.

 

About Welcome Fit: Welcomefit.com is a Melbourne based company which launched in April 2019.  Welcome Fit aims to increase physical activity levels by making professional fitness instruction accessible and highly effective.  Welcome Fit’s patent pending platform allows fitness professionals to seamlessly switch between recorded content and different live views, which makes instruction significantly more effective than traditional streaming.  Welcome Fit already has trainers in more than 11 countries and supports fitness influencers Dan Conn and Jenna Douros, who can train up to 1,000 participants in an interactive live workout.

 

For more information on Athletics Australia’s Coaching Program, go to Athletics Australia’s website.

 

 

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