Output Sports Knowledge Base

Output Hub

We know that progress in athletes’ training and rehab journeys is all down to the hard work of coaches and athletes, and at Output we play the role of keeping performance tracking simple, objective and efficient.

Our Hub system built on the key principles of:

Efficient data amalgamation
Simple and efficient data visualisation
Consolidating S&C and Physio data
Creating community
Driving athlete intent

The Hub itself is divided into 10 key sections, all of which are outlined below along with why we designed the features as they are:

// LIVE

For our end-users, establishing a competitive environment has been a key aspect of importance in driving intent within a training or testing session. Output end-users really liked the idea of a live leaderboard functionality within Hub to add additional competitiveness to their training and testing days. Hub Live builds on this idea.

The cloud-based functionality of Hub ensures that results are instantaneously posted once an exercise is completed, giving you the means in which to drive inter-athlete competitiveness within a session. Within Hub Live, a live activity feed and leaderboard are displayed side by side. This can be filtered to display results from the last 24hrs or week, depending on your preference. Within Hub Live there is also the option to filter down results to a specific group or a number of groups if desired. With the live leaderboard and activity feed displaying real time results, Hub Live will ensure your athletes are maximising their performance in training.

// ATHLETE HUB

Difficulty to manage silos of data has previously been identified as a major pain point for various sports-professionals. Such practitioners ranging from physios at world-leading rugby clubs, to directors of performance in NCAA set-ups want a system that instantaneously amalgamates wellness and performance tracking data, whilst allowing simple and effective data visualisation options. A key requested feature included the ability to longitudinally track the athletes’ they work with in order to create a holistic athlete profile, which in turn aids in objective decision making and effective coach-athlete communication.

This is where the Athlete Hub comes in. Here you are first greeted with all of the athlete profiles registered to your account in alphabetical order, showing you a range of chosen exercises along with their associated traffic light indicator. There are different ways in how these athletes are sorted with options to prioritise your athletes who were most recently tested, in needs of attention and the top performing athletes, allowing you to tailor the Athlete Hub.

There is then the option to click on an individual athlete in order to easily view their profile and data in more detail, through numerous different graphs and tables, allowing you to see trends in the athlete’s performance. You can learn more about Load-velocity (L-V) profiling section in Hub here.

The Hub also provides a comprehensive and practical place to store the data of individual athletes without the hassle of acquiring third party Athlete Management Systems.

Additional athletes can easily be added either individually or in bulk within the Athlete Hub, ensuring that you have each team member's details on record to allow for seamless testing.

// CHARTING

In addition to the charting available on Athlete Hub, the ability to track multiple different metrics on the same graph has also been a heavily requested feature. This can help visualize certain trends in the data and highlight where an athlete may be peaking or having a down day.

This is where Charting comes in. You are first greeted with a blank chart where you can select the athlete you are wishing to plot the data for. Once selected, you can then choose what exercises and what metrics you would like to show. You can choose up to a total of 4 different exercises and an associated metric. As soon as you have selected more than one, the average line and standard deviation will be removed from the graph. You have the option to customise what time period you would like to see on the graph and also how you would like to aggregate the data. By clicking into the advanced options, you can further customise how this data is visualised. Once you have selected the data you wish to view, you can quickly download it as a picture, export it as a .csv, or enter a full screen view.

If you have selected more than one athlete at the beginning of this process, you will only be able to select one exercise and associated metric to graph.

// GROUP HUB

The majority of our end-users don’t work with just one athlete or one team. We therefore quickly recognised the difficulties associated with differentiating their clientele in order to quickly identify who may be falling behind in a certain team, or who is excelling in a class group, or trends occurring across various groups they work with throughout the year.

The Group Hub solves this problem. Here, it allows you to sort various athletes together into a group. Whether you want to divide athletes into teams, smaller groups, class groups, positions, or sports, it is completely up to you. This ensures that athlete management data is customizable to whatever specifications you desire.

The graphing feature within the Group Hub allows you to view and compare individual athletes within a specific group, showing improvements and deteriorations across the data you have collected over a chosen time period. This particularly helps to identify any athlete within that group who may be falling behind or who is excelling. It can also be used to show the athletes themselves how they are performing for various exercises in comparison to their teammates for example.

Note; Essentials plan or above needed to access groups

*Reflective of 2024 pricing plans

// LEADERBOARDS

Driving intent within a training or testing session has been a key aspect of importance for our end-users. By having a live leaderboard function, it can really help to add an additional competitiveness to their training and testing days and intern maximise intent from their athletes.

The Hub Leaderboards brings this idea to life. Within Hub Leaderboards you can create up to 3 different leaderboards, which can be created for different exercises, groups and time periods. The leaderboards can subsequently be filtered within a training setting allowing athletes to clearly see who has set the records within their groups on specific exercises. With the athlete management landscape ever increasing, it is becoming more and more common for the ability to benchmark against fellow athletes. The leaderboard functionality of the Hub ensures that you, as a coach, can clearly recognise those who are struggling and those who are outperforming the rest of the group. Leaderboards also give the athletes themselves the ability to see how they are performing for various exercises in comparison to their teammates, facilitating the means in which to drive competition between your athletes.

// REPORT GENERATION

Report generation has always been identified as a major pain point across the sporting community. The creation of reports for individual players can be very time consuming - the data has to be collated, interpreted, and then presented in a way that the reader will understand. This process may then have to be repeated for each athlete and/or team. It was also highlighted that reports play a crucial role in organisational communication. Whether they are informing a coach on a particular players rehab journey, or informing a parent how their child has been progressing throughout the year.

This is where Report Generation comes in, by allowing you to display data concisely. When creating reports, you are given the option to create a report for an entire group, or for a single athlete. This allows you to give feedback to athletes as a whole or on an individual basis. You simply select the metrics that you want to be included in the report, how you would like them to be displayed, and for what time period. Notes can then be added to the report to explain to the athlete/group how they are progressing or what they may need more work on. The template created can also be saved for future use, meaning you save a lot of time as you do not have to create a new report each time. The report can then be automatically sent via email to whomever you want, or can be downloaded as a PDF from the Hub.

// EXERCISE LIBRARY

Personalisation is key. End-users wanted a way of being able to create their own exercises, which could be tracked and monitored in the exact same way as an Output Exercise.

This is where the exercise library comes in. From here you can view all exercises currently in the system, while also viewing their associated category, body segment, equipment, metrics, exercise videos and exercise instructions.

Using the '+Add Exercise' button you can also create your own exercise, which can then be logged and tracked, similar to an Output exercise. This gives you the flexibility to add any exercise or variation of an exercise that you would like to track.

Note; Essentials plan or above needed to access the exercise library

*Reflective of 2024 pricing plans

// WORKOUTS

Here at Output, we understand that time is invaluable. We know that progress in athletes’ training and rehab journeys is all down to the hard work of coaches and athletes, and at Output we play the role of keeping performance tracking simple, objective and efficient. We therefore quickly recognised the need to be able to build out various sessions for training, testing and monitoring to allow for more seamless operations day-to-day.

This is where Workouts comes in. The Workouts feature allows for an easier flow to your session if you are coaching a group of athletes. It mitigates the need to jump in and out of various exercises that may be a part of your session, and athletes themselves can easily run through it. It can also aid both S&C coaches and physiotherapists in creating their testing protocols in order to run through sessions more efficiently, allowing more time to be dedicated to the athlete/patient themselves.

Note; Essentials plan or above needed to access workouts

*Reflective of 2024 pricing plans

// EXPORT DATA

We recognised that some end-users wanted a way to be able to take the data they collected with Output and export it for external use or analysis.

This is where the Export Data feature comes in. When exporting data, you are given the option to export data for an entire group, or for a single athlete. You simply select the exercises that you want exported and the desired date range. There is also the option to export weight, height and wellness measurements. When exporting data for multiple exercises, there is the option to split the files by exercise. The data can then be exported and viewed in Excel.

// SETTINGS

Personalisation is key. End-users wanted a way of being able to show that they were logged into their organisation’s database, and to be able to add a sense of personalisation to the reports. A way of being able to tailor a view to show what exercises they deem most important, and determine what thresholds make the most sense for them. Key exercise metrics can vary hugely between sports, in addition to what may mean that an athlete is within or below their average.

Customization is at the centre of Output // Hub. The settings section allows you to populate a profile picture which shows at all times while you are logged into the Hub, and also displays on each report that you create. From the settings, you can edit preferences and account info, including updating your password, as well as create templates and set thresholds for the traffic light athlete monitoring indicators. Therefore, settings give the ability to completely customise the display to fit your needs. The setting section is also where you can log out of the Hub, create coach level logins, unarchive athlete profiles, and see information about your subscription with us.