What does PocketAthlete actually do?

You log each morning: sleep, soreness and fatigue. It scores your readiness, adjusts that day's session, and builds four-week training blocks around your sport, your position and the equipment you have.

Is it only for footballers?

No. It covers football, rugby, basketball, running, weightlifting and general gym training, with position-specific work for the team sports.

No. Tell it what you have and it programs around it. Many of the technical drills need nothing but a ball and a wall.

Can it work around an injury?

It works around soreness you log and avoids body parts you tell it to leave alone. It is general training information, not medical advice — see a physiotherapist for a diagnosis.

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Cable Woodchopper

Resisting rotation while producing it is what the trunk does in every throw, swing and change of direction.

StrengthCableControlledAll core exercises All cable exercises

What it works

Core

How to do it

1Set a pulley high, take the handle in both hands, and pull it down and across the body to the opposite hip while rotating the torso.
2Return under control.
3Rotate through the trunk with the hips relatively stable — that resistance to rotation is the exercise.

Cues that matter

›Pull down and across to the opposite hip
›Rotate through the trunk
›Keep the hips relatively stable

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Get a training block built around you

PocketAthlete builds your program from your sport, your position and how recovered you actually are that morning — then adapts it as you log sessions.