Online Fitness Evaluations
Rotorua United has purchased a 12-month licence with Life is 4 Living. This will enable all club members to log in and enter their own results from Fitness Tests which coaches will be running as part of training this year. The results are stored in an online database. The system will send club members a .PDF report by email which will show the players performance relative to the coach's benchmarks. The report also graphs changes in performance over time.
The Life is 4 Living Fitness Evaluation Software has been used by the New Zealand Sevens team (coached by Gordon Tietjens) and the Ranfurly Shield winning Bay of Plenty Steamers of 2004, so this is an opportunity for our club members to experience the kind of feedback elite and professional athletes receive. Rotorua United is the first organsation to be able to utilise the online version of the L4L Software, and we can use it within our own website!!!
At this stage, on our website the software is set up for the following football related Fitness Tests:
- The Beep Test (Aerobic Fitness)
- 10 and 20 Metre standing sprints
- 10 metre flying sprint
- The Illinois Agility Test
- Vertical Jump
- The Crunch Test
- Body Mass Index
- Body Fat Percentage
The software can be configured for any other type of fitness test. It will be up to individual coaches to decide what tests they want their players to complete. Coaches will be able to set their own benchmarks for their players. You can view a sample L4L Fitness Evaluation Report here.











