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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EZ Bar Curl

The angled bar is kinder on the wrists than a straight one, so the biceps stop the set rather than the joints.

StrengthEZ barControlledAll barbell exercises All biceps exercises

What it works

Biceps

How to do it

1Take the angled grips of an EZ bar, which turns the wrists slightly in and takes the strain off them.
2Curl with the elbows fixed at your sides, squeeze, and lower under control to straight.
3The go-to if straight-bar curls make your wrists ache.

Cues that matter

›Take the angled grips to spare the wrists
›Curl with the elbows fixed at your sides
›Lower under control to straight

Watch a form guide for the ez bar curl ↗

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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.