Promoting Dialogue: The Importance Of The Coach-Athlete Relationship

Promoting Dialogue: The Importance Of The Coach-Athlete Relationship

July 21, 2021 Metrifit

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The coach and the athlete intentionally develop a relationship, which is characterized by a growing appreciation and respect for each...

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Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Sleep/Stress Relationship in Athletes

July 12, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Sleep is extremely important to me – I need to rest and recover in order for the training I do...

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‘Know Thyself’: The importance of Self Knowledge for the Modern Athlete

June 28, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Developing self-awareness within athletes is, for me, the most important job a sport psychologist has within applied work. Greater self-awareness...

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Tokyo 2021: An uncertain Olympics

May 31, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

As the world’s greatest sports event, the Olympics encompasses a vast amount of sporting and athletic activities. The next Olympic...

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Breaking the Taboo
How the Menstrual Cycle Affects Athletic Performance

May 24, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

OVERPOWER. OVERTAKE. OVERCOME. – Serena Williams Physical and psychological changes associated with the menstrual cycle It has long been suspected...

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Lifestyle stressors and athlete well-being

Lifestyle Profiling: Convert Insights into Action

May 18, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

The importance of monitoring your lifestyle Well-being is complex, encompassing emotional, psychological, and social functioning. Athletes with high well-being perform...

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Why you should be monitoring athlete well-being

April 19, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Many factors influence athletic training and performance, and it is essential for coaches and athletes to be aware of the...

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The importance of goal setting for athletes

March 16, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

When it comes to the fine margins between success and failure at elite sport level, it is acknowledged that...

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Self Confidence and Performance

March 3, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Confidence is the essential trait that defines each individual’s hope and faith in achieving their goals, that leads to successfully...

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Managing athlete stress

February 23, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Stress, as we all know, is part of every athlete’s life. Whether you are attempting to execute a play to...

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Mood State and Performance

February 10, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Can mood state really affect performance on the field of play in sport? Can feeling happy, sad, anxious, angry or...

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Kickstart your season

January 18, 2021 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

It has been an eventful 2020 with many additional challenges that none of us foresaw and many of those challenges...

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Effects of stress on academic and athletic performance

December 15, 2020 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Although there are many advantages to being a High School or College student, this period of a young person’s life...

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The art of breathing

December 2, 2020 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Each of us has the ability to tap into our innate function – the breath – to increase energy and...

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The importance of ‘knowing your athletes’

July 8, 2020 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

It used to be the case that success in sport was based mostly on natural talent, but as competition developed,...

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Case Study: RPE and training load

May 7, 2020 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Guest Author: Cairbre Ó Cairealláin Following on from his previous blog a view weeks ago which looked at implementing a...

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Golfing, Life and Covid-19

April 1, 2020 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Robert Karlsson is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour, PGA Tour and currently plays on...

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Looking after the health and well-being of your athletes with Metrifit

February 27, 2020 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

In the modern sporting world, the gap between winning and losing can come down to fractions of seconds, millimeters, or...

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Sleep should be part of your training plan

February 21, 2020 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Asking athletes to play on minimal sleep is the same as asking them to “play with one hand tied behind...

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The importance of knowing when an athlete has reached load limit

February 6, 2020 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Ensuring an athlete is in the best possible condition to compete at their best when it matters most is one...

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The Sky is the Limit – Altitude Training

January 30, 2020 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Everything can be just that little bit harder at altitude. Yet athletes all across the globe voluntarily subject themselves to...

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Mental health needs of elite athletes

December 18, 2019 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

Mental illness is probably one of the greatest silent epidemics in our country. It’s a public health issue and now...

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Leadership today – Team Success and the incomplete leader

December 5, 2019 Fintan McGovern

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Performance Monitoring

No leader is perfect. The best ones don’t try to be – they concentrate on honing their strengths and find...

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Former Firmwave CEO to power Metrifit expansion plan

November 25, 2019 Metrifit

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News Articles, Performance Monitoring

Press Release Former Firmwave CEO and Co-Founder, Fintan McGovern has been announced as Chairman of Louth based health, wellbeing and...

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Optimizing the benefits of athlete self-reporting measures

November 20, 2019 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

The increasingly scientific approach to sport means that the modern athlete relies on information from a variety of sources in...

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Awareness of risk factors for sports injury is essential

July 17, 2019 Eunan Whyte

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Performance Monitoring

Across the world there are millions of people involved in exercise and sport and in the process are enjoying the...

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Metrifit chats to Professional Golfer, Robert Karlsson

May 28, 2019 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

We were delighted to get the opportunity to have a chat with Professional Golfer Robert Karlsson in London recently. Metrifit...

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Interview with JC Anderson

May 1, 2019 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

We were delighted to get the opportunity to have a chat with JC Anderson, the Director of the Athletic Training...

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Metrifit teams up with Fyffes

September 21, 2017 Metrifit

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News Articles

[contact-form-7 id=”5629″ title=”Request a Free Demo”] We are delighted to announce that we have teamed up with Fyffes on an...

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Metrifit Webinar Series with special guest Sean Machak

August 17, 2017 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

As part of our ongoing commitment to help inform and inspire the coaching community we are delighted to provide a...

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Metrifit talks to the coaches:
Derek Bol Webinar

July 27, 2017 Metrifit

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News Articles

We had a fantastic webinar with special guest Derek Bol and chaired by Dr. Cian O’Neill, Head of The Department...

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The overtraining problem and why monitoring is essential

July 18, 2017 Metrifit

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Performance Monitoring

“Overtraining can best be defined as the state where an athlete has been repeatedly stressed by training to the point...

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Metrifit talks to the coaches:
Kevin Schultz Webinar

June 29, 2017 Metrifit

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News Articles

We had a fantastic webinar with special guest Kevin Schultz chaired by Dr. Cian O’Neill, Head of The Department of...

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Metrifit features in RTE documentary GAA Nua

June 23, 2017 Metrifit

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News Articles

A new sports series called ‘GAA Nua’ (For our global readers: Nua means New in the Irish language) was launched...

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The Brain Always Wins Webinar

March 19, 2017 Metrifit

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News Articles

We had a fantastic webinar with special guest renowned sports scientist and clinical sports psychologist Dr. John P. Sullivan chaired...

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Chalk talk with Ron McKeefery

October 28, 2016 Metrifit

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News Articles

Coach Brian Clarke is Head Strength and Conditioning Co-ordinator and Wellness Department Chair at Noblesville High School and is responsible...

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Supplements and the young athlete

September 21, 2016 Eunan Whyte

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Performance Monitoring

All athletes undertake a training program with the ultimate aim of improving their performance. Gaining that extra bit of speed,...

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Challenges to Effective Athlete Monitoring are Easily Overcome

July 14, 2016 Eunan Whyte

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Performance Monitoring

This article first appeared in the SimpliFaster blog. Achieving success in sport, particularly at the elite level, is a complex...

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Bill Besselman joins Metrifit as Chief Strategy Advisor

May 17, 2016 Ann Bruen

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Bill Besselman Chief Strategy Advisor, Metrifit Bill Besselman, former Vice President of Connected Fitness Strategy and Integration, Under Armour joins...

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