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The Peddie School is co-ed private school in Highstown, New Jersey with 550-students - 500+ of which are student-athletes. It includes 15 sports and has a sports requirement for all students.
Mike Volkmar has spent 14 years as a professional strength & conditioning coach and holds a Master’s in Exercise Science from GW University with a CSCS certification and an MSP. Mike spent two years as a strength coach in the MLB and spent one year on staff at GW University before moving down to Florida join the IMG Academy for 5 years. He is now at his 6th year at Peddie School.
“I was a ‘spreadsheet ninja’ - a craft that is honed after 14 years as a strength coach. Until you guys [TeamBuildr] came along and changed that. After trying the software, I found advantages that I never got in Excel which include the ability to update workouts in real-time. Before, I would have to walk back to my computer, make the change on Excel, save it, and sometimes even re-print out a new workout.”
“I have always been big on using data to make decisions but all the data was never always there. We used to have folders and I would put my senior captains in charge of them for each team. Inevitably, it got lost or was never compiled correctly. Testing athletes regularly became an afterthought because I don’t have a staff. Senior captains help as assistants but they are still kids with other responsibility.”
“Implementing TeamBuildr made workouts much more effective in my situation. White boards are good for workouts but kids don’t learn something until they do it and see it.
They’re kids, so they love the technology - and this allows them to use it as a learning tool. They can watch the videos on their phone. It makes the user experience a lot more fun.”
“For me, it makes me a better coach because it saves me time – time that I can use better instructing our student-athletes. I’m a one-man shop working with 100 kids per day. Using Weight Room View, I can update a workout on the floor in real-time and that’s priceless. Before I used to have to walk back to my office and change things on spreadsheets. My programming is a lot better, I can keep up with my teams.”
“I test regularly now as well. Testing is done with me and tablet in the weight room - all the data gets saved directly to the cloud and the athletes can look up their scores or rankings as soon as they finish testing.”
“It was something that I knew would benefit us from the moment I saw it. I made no assumptions that every athlete had a smartphone and was equally able to take advantage of the technology. Using a tablet stand in the weight room certainly solved that problem before it became one.
I can now have 2 different sports in here testing at one time but having athletes input their own data on a tablet on the rack or platform.”
“Our tablet money came from the school’s technology budget which helped a lot. If your kids don’t have smartphones or you don’t want smartphones in the weight room, get weight room view. It costs $500 per unit for everything all-inclusive. It creates a more effective and authentic testing. It allows every athlete to participate fully.”
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Peddie School also employs a common technique in TeamBuildr by including the athletic training staff on the program. Athletic trainers can oversee and program rehab workouts for injured athletes directly in TeamBuildr.
Additionally, since all the data on athlete exercise is stored on TeamBuildr, the strength staff and athletic training staff are always on the same page regarding an athlete’s recovery and progress. This creates streamlined communication between the two staffs when face-to-face conversation is not feasible.
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