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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Split Jerk

Splitting the feet gives you a much bigger base to receive a bar in, which is why the heaviest overhead lifts use it.

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What it works

Whole Body

How to do it

1Dip and drive the bar up, then split the feet — one forward, one back — dropping under to catch it locked out overhead.
2Front shin vertical, back knee soft, torso upright and the bar over the middle of your base.
3Recover the front foot first, then the back.
4Catching with a soft or bent arm is the common failure.

Cues that matter

›Dip and drive, then split the feet
›Front shin vertical, back knee soft
›Catch it with the arms locked out

Watch a form guide for the split jerk ↗

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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.