Uplift Labs: On the New Frontier of Virtual Training and Coaching
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
We’re on the precipice of a golden frontier of athlete training and coaching as geographical boundaries are smashed and technologies is developed that are geared towards virtual and digital training. We look at Uplift Labs, one of the key companies that is on that frontier. Uplift Labs has two core products that emerged at different times: Uplift
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Onyx: The Mission to Build the World’s Smartest At-Home Fitness Instructor
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Onyx is a fitness app that uses on-device computer vision to bring the at-home training experience to the mass market. The digital training app utilises a smartphone camera coupled with AI-powered movement tracking to count reps, correct form in real-time while providing on-demand workouts. The central experience with Onyx is personalisation. A user’s training performance
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Part 2: In Conversation with Markos Aristides Kern, CEO of FunWithBalls
Monday, 01 June 2020
In part-one we talked to Markos Aristides Kern, CEO of FunWithBalls, about how he has company has navigated COVID-19. In this part we delve into the company a little bit more to find out about the motivation and company’s purpose in getting people active and enjoying sports. Over the last 12 to 18 months it appears to me
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Part 1: In Conversation with Markos Aristides Kern, CEO of FunWithBalls
Friday, 29 May 2020
Emerging startup out of Munich FunWithBalls merges sports with gaming with their product MultiBall by making static courts and spaces interactive. MultiBall is for out-of-home, in-home, on the court and public spaces. Users can keep fit and do workouts and training sessions with racket sports – squash, racquetball and tennis – and football. Suitable across
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The Rise of Digital Fitness
Monday, 27 April 2020
This article is a cross-posting, and comes courtesy from Noise Studio. A big thank you to them for allowing us to re-publish this piece! The original article was posted here. — Digital fitness has elevated the meaning of the home workout. Whether you prefer to exercise at home, have to spend time indoors with limited or
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Fittrack Is an End-to-End Digital Solution for Gyms and Health & Fitness Clubs
Friday, 24 April 2020
During our current coronavirus pandemic the rush for the most complete in-home fitness experience has gathered pace. People are consuming more YouTube videos and using well-known fitness apps to track their at-home workouts. But if a person already has a gym membership and trusts their trainer, where do they go? Fittrack is an end-to-end digital ecosystem
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SOLO Workout: How Two Guys from Different Continents Combined to Help Make Gyms Smarter
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
A team of engineers from Poland and a technological tinkerer from Sydney joined together to attempt to shake up the gym equipment industry. Dane Dobre, the Business Developer of SOLO Workout told Bullpen how he found like-minded entrepreneurs on the opposite side of the world and have come together to build a tech stack that is allowing gym
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Find a Player Makes Delivery and Access to Sports Real Easy
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
It’s a simple enough proposition, sports games have got to be easy to organise and find players for. Yet the problem is rather multifaceted when you have to communicate with friends and fellow players across different channels, find locations or venues then coordinate who is playing and who has paid. Developed in Scotland, Find a Player is
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