CoachR is a mobile and online coach for athletes.
CoachR system consists of three components the mobile software, the CoachR.com website and a GPS receiver.
CoachR.com
The website serves as a platform where you can schedule and prepare your training sessions. After creating a profile, you can upload your trips in real-time, or after your workout and review your performance on a map and check your body data (heart rate, speed, distance, etc.) on the graph in the section “my workouts - analysis”.
You can stream your workouts in real-time on the website to share them with your family, friends and everybody else who is interested. Your workouts are also still visible after the completion of the session, so others can check out where you ran and compare their routes with yours.
CoachR’s mobile software
CoachR’s mobile software has an easy-to-use user interface. It is compatible with almost all types of Bluetooth-compatible mobile phones and can be downloaded for free on http://www.coachr.nl/en/downloads.html.
The software displays your data, recorded by a GPS receiver. During the workout you can always check this data on your mobile screen and scroll through graphs that visualise your performances.
When starting your workout, just check whether you want your track to be displayed in real-time at CoachR.com, so others can follow you.
The GPS receiver
To use the entirety of the CoachR system you should use a GPS receiver. This receiver will communicate with your mobile phone, and transfer the data needed to track and analyse your performance.
Seamless Communication
The three components communicate wirelessly with each other over Bluetooth and the mobile phone's internet connection. The use of the internet connection can cause additional costs based on your mobile phone plan. We try our best to reduce those costs to a minimum in comprising and optimising the transferred data.
(Please check with your provider for the exact amount of charges.)
The CoachR team was able to optimise the accuracy of the communication between the three components to an interval of 1 second, which allows a precise (live-)tracking and enables real-time displaying of your data.
Future updates in the planning:
- add the feature to upload geotagged pictures and videos from your mobile phone to your workouts
- build up a workout scheduler that can be adapted to your personal workout goals and supports you with different tools of analysis to reach your objectives
- add voice instructions to your mobile phone, communicated via the phone’s earplugs, that coach you during the workout according to your specific goals
- offer a complete online and mobile coaching system that assists you in reaching your goals
- translate the website and mobile software in French, Spanish and Italian