Are you benefitting from our benchmarks feature for coaches and clients?

If the answer the answer to the article's title is no, or you don’t know what we’re talking about, this article is for you, and will totally transform your training programs.

If you’re a client reading this and your coach doesn’t use this feature, send them to this article and you’ll benefit from more enhanced programming!

What are benchmarks?

Benchmarks are repeatable sessions or particular movements allowing one to analyse the increase in performance over time.

The ability to quantify and evaluate individual & team progression towards performance goals is an integral part of any performance program.

Monitoring key fitness, strength, conditioning and performance metrics provides objective feedback for coaches that can be used to drive client improvement, detect issues and increase success.

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What’s so special about them on FITR Training?

According to Emma McQuaid, 7th fittest woman in the world “Benchmark programming, which is totally unique to FITR Training, allows me to instantly provide individualised workouts unique to each client, across limitless clients at a time, whilst I only have to write the program and its workouts once.  My clients don’t reach for a calculator when they receive my workouts, they get split times, weights, paces, wattage numbers etc specific to them based on their Personal Best, or ‘Benchmark’, numbers.”

Benchmarks aren’t just one-off logs on a performance, with a nice looking graph to show progress, on FITR Training they’re so much more.

Coaches can link benchmarks into their session programming to offer totally unique and targeted percentages or split times to each and every client on the program.

It doesn’t matter if a coach has 1,000 people following a program, the system will work out the correct numbers to show each client, based on the client’s own current performances.

As Emma says, there’s no more reaching for a calculator in the gym!

Here’s an example….

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Step 1: The Coach links the a benchmark into the session...

When you can really good you can just write the benchmark straight in the session.

Step 2: The Coach has chosen the benchmark to link in.

When the system recognises a benchmark is being linked in the session, you can see it turn a blue colour, similar to that of a hyperlink you'd see on websites.

Step 3: Sense checking the session

Use the client preview option when building the session to see how it will look to your clients.

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Step 4: Tom takes a look at his programming.

When Tom accesses his programming if he hasn't recorded the benchmark we'll guide him to do so right there and then, he doesn't need to leave the screen.

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Step 5: Jane now checks into her calendar.

Jane is following the same program as Tom but her 1RM benchmark is different. Not to worry, the system shows Jane her targets.

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It's not just percentage based targets we can handle

For benchmarks that work off split times, we can handle that too. By default ' - 0' appears after the benchmark but as you can see, this can be tailored to adjust for seconds less or more than the average split.

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Tom's specific targets

Based on Tom's benchmark he's been targeted to row at a pace of 2:30, 2:27 and 2:35 for this session.

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And Jane?

Jane has a faster 2km row time so her targets are faster than Tom's as you can see.

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Our benchmark feature will transform the programming clients will receive. Clients don't have to try and remember what their benchmark performance was 3 months ago and work out a percentage, they simply log in and see specific targets to them.

Aside from the obvious benefits to the client, for the coach it protects your programming. If a client hasn't added a benchmark, we'll request they add one before they can see the session detail. We do not show them the original percentages or split times.

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This means that a client can't simply copy the session and send it to their mates for free. It also means the the art of your programming remains with you. This is your skill and experience, we make sure it remains that way.

What are you waiting for, start using benchmarks in your programming today!

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