A Galway developed sports app is proving global hit

A mobile sports app developed in Galway is beginning to take the global market by storm, with teams in the UK and mainland Europe having already signed up to it and discussions with sporting bodies in North America underway.

Monitoring player training loads, sleep and wellness, the app – titled Actimet – is co-owned by Meelick/Eyrecourt’s Rory McGauran (Head of Operations), Galway Strength & Conditioning coach Lukasz Kirszenstein (Head of Design) and South African tech wizard Edward Kaschula (Head of Software).

Developed two years ago, the app was originally used by the Galway senior hurlers and the Corofin footballers before the programme was made available to other clubs and county teams.

Among the GAA squads currently using Actimet are Galway’s senior and U20 hurlers and footballers, Clare U20 hurlers, Sarsfields, Monivea/ Abbey, Cratloe (Clare) and Glen Rovers (Cork), along with Galway camogie (senior, intermediate and minor), Galway senior ladies’ footballers and All-Ireland LGFA club senior champions Mourneabbey.

Various other teams in NUI Galway and GMIT, Galway women’s soccer, Galwegians and Corinthians rugby clubs and Galway City Harriers feature among the 160 clubs that have signed up to it.

The appeal of the app seems to be the ease of use for both athlete and coach. For players, it allows them to input their training and wellness data, view schedules and send notes to the coach. All these can be done with three touches of the screen in less than 10 seconds.

With the info coaches and managers receive from their players, they can plan training loads for their team, view comparisons between players and spot if a player is doing too much – so helping to prevent injury or player burn-out.

“A lot of teams are discovering issues with players that they wouldn’t have known about,” says Head of Operations McGauran, who heads up Galway senior hurlers’ performance analysis.

“This may be that some people aren’t sleeping; some people are busy with kids; or some people are working double jobs and are arriving to training wrecked. All that is no good, as you can imagine. So, the app is proactive in that it will help prevent injury because you are spotting the training loads.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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