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Australian women’s cricket team uses Apple Watches to improve performance

Turn and move, we say that the Apple Watch is the ball of the season among the Apple devices. Still, some doubt the watch’s potential and how important it really can be, overcoming the barrier of being a mere “basic” health monitoring and notification gadget.

Australian female cricket team

Well look at this story shared by Apple: the Australia’s female cricket team is using Apple Watch and an activity monitoring application from Australian Sports Institute to optimize team training, reduce the risk of injury and improve performance.

Through the app, the team tracks and shares their daily activities, allowing technicians to monitor and modify the workload based on metrics including training load, heart rate, sleep data and even mood! The panel that the app offers in real time gives an insight into the workload and training capacity, enabling significant modifications to improve a player’s prospects – even from afar, during the periods when they are traveling.

Australian female cricket team

“Apple Watch provides highly accurate and instant data, which helped us to overcome previous challenges, in which the players’ data arrived too late to be used. Now we can analyze the data of the players in real time and put the interventions into practice to manage fatigue and mitigate the risk of injuries ”, said David Bailey, performance technician. “With the team using the Apple Watch and sharing the activities, we realized that the players become more responsible and engaged in the training process, more motivated by the data and have more fun along the way.” “We’ve always known that speed, breadth and accuracy would be essential if data made a difference to a team’s performance,” said Ian Morrow, manager of applied technology and innovation projects at the Australian Sport Institute (responsible for the app). “We also knew that we could get performance benefits from having athletes obsessed with their data, and Apple Watch helped us do that. IAE’s ability to use Apple Watch’s powerful sensors has given us the opportunity to fulfill our ambition to innovate in performance management and create something literally revolutionary. ”

Australian female cricket team

This monitoring during the training period ended up causing some players to use the watch also off the field, in order to have a more comprehensive view of the day. Not to mention, of course, the dispute that happens between the players to see who is the great champion of the internal challenges.

“Within elite sports, there are often no big differences or margins between the best teams in the world, so be precise and insights the way you train can make a big difference when you’re on the pitch, ”said Meg Lanning, captain of the Australian team. “Data is not only motivating from a personal perspective, it can create a competitive advantage as well. Using a device as personal as the Apple Watch allowed everyone on the team to communicate better and take ownership of their own training preparation, giving them a clear understanding of what they are doing and why. It’s brilliant.”

This is not the first and will not be the last time we see stories like these involving the Apple Watch.


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