Meet Rob anderson

Rob created The Athlete Academy with the mission to provide world class athletic development and coaching for young athletes. His dedication to improve the quality of youth athletic development is reflected in his recent achievement, winning the 2024 UKSCA Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year Award for Youth Sport. With Athlete Academy Rob and his colleagues guide young athletes through their fitness journey by offering workouts that challenge and elevate their strength, endurance, and agility.

Why Athlete Academy uses Hylyght

Athlete Academy started to use Hylyght to measure, assess, and guide their athletes through a more data-informed and science-driven approach. The Hylyght platform provides clear visual feedback that makes complex physical data easy to understand and communicate with young athletes. One of the most valuable features for Rob and his colleagues is the monitoring of growth and maturity, which allows coaches to tailor training programmes to the athlete’s developmental stage. This enables more targeted training decisions and helps reduce injury risk during periods of rapid growth.

What feature Rob would like to see in the future

Hylyght provides downloadable group reports for growth and maturity so coaches can see in a glance which athletes in their team are in their growth spurt or are early mature. However, as an academy that mainly guides individual athletes, a single-athlete version of this Growth Tracker pdf-report would be convenient.

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