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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First-touch control

A clean first touch buys you the half-second that makes everything else possible.

SkillBall + wallContinuous · 3–5 minAll core exercises All calves exercises

What it works

Calves, Core

How to do it

1Play the ball against a wall and control the return, relaxing the receiving foot to cushion it and taking your first touch into space away from imaginary pressure.
2Open your body before the ball arrives so you can see the whole pitch.
3Alternate feet and vary the weight and height of the pass.
4A clean first touch buys you the half-second that makes every other decision easier.

Cues that matter

›Cushion the ball — relax the receiving foot
›Touch into space, away from pressure
›Open your body before it arrives

Train the same thing

Cone weave dribbleBall + cones · Calves, Core
Tight-space dribblingBall · Calves, Core
Wall passing repsBall + wall · Core
1v1 attacking movesBall + defender/cone · Quads, Glutes, Calves
Finishing drillBall + goal · Quads, Glutes, Core
GK 1v1 spreadingBall + attacker · Quads, Glutes, Core

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.

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