Multistage Fitness Test iPhone app
Client
sports coach UK
The Job
Production of an iPhone app version of the multistage fitness test (bleep test). The fitness test is used in talent identification programmes across the globe, in schools and clubs as well as by the emergency services and armed forces to determine fitness levels. The test has evolved alongside the technology and the app is the next stage in its evolution, adapting the concept to smartphone technology.
The Solution
Coachwise briefed specialist software developers to bring the test to life as an app. The app allows users to:
- Run the test for individuals or groups
- Save individual scores against individual and group profiles
- Provides instant VO2 max calculation
- Email individual and team results
- Record notes on an individual's performance
- Share scores on Facebook
- Chart progress on a graph
Other features include:
- Access to the full VO2 max table
- Handy video tutorial to make sure you get the most out our your app
- Audio instructions that explain the test to participants
- Traffic light colour-coded three strikes system
The Results/Benefits
The app provides coaches with more freedom to conduct the test, collates results of individuals and teams and chart progress. The app is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
What the Partner Says
Professor John Brewer, Professor of Sport at the University of Bedfordshire and author of the Multistage Fitness Test, talks about his relationship with Coachwise...
> Watch the video interview with Professor John Brewer
other case studies for sports coach UK
