Most testing weeks go well on the field and badly afterwards.
The sprints get run. The jumps get filmed. The bar speeds get recorded. Then the coach sits down on Sunday night with a phone full of results and a spreadsheet that needs filling in by hand. Athlete by athlete, test by test, copied across one number at a time. It is slow, and it is where mistakes creep in.
The SpeedTrackr Android app now does that step for you. You export your results as one Excel workbook, a single .xlsx file, instead of a pile of separate files.
Here is what is inside it.
The first tab is a Summary. For every athlete it shows their best result, their latest result, and the change between them. That is the page most coaches actually want after a testing block: who is moving forward, who has stalled, and by how much.
After the Summary there is one tab per tool. Timing gates, bar speed, jump and reaction each get their own sheet, so you can look at all the raw results for one test in one place.
Names come through properly, including names with accents or written in other scripts. The export also no longer stops at 200 rows of reaction results, so a big squad with lots of attempts comes out in full.
It helps to know where those numbers come from.
Timing gates are practice-grade start and finish times from two devices. The second gate can be an Android phone, an iPhone or a laptop. There are no split times, and it is not a fully automatic timing system. It is built for consistent practice testing.
Bar speed and jump work from video. You film the set or the jump, or import a clip you already have, and the results come after. It is not live analysis on the camera screen. Jump power uses the body weight saved on each athlete's profile, so the power column belongs to the right person.
A few habits make the workbook worth opening.
Save every result to the right athlete. In Coach Mode you can add athletes in the Squad tab, or by typing a name when you save a result. A result saved under the wrong name will show up as the wrong athlete's progress.
Read the change column against each athlete's own history first. A light sprinter and a heavy forward will never have the same jump power. The useful question is whether each of them improved on themselves.
Treat the first result as a baseline. An athlete's first test is the starting line, not a personal best. The change column only starts to mean something from the second test onwards.
Keep the setup the same between testing weeks. Same distance, same surface, same camera spot, same jump rules. When the setup changes, the spreadsheet changes too, and it will look like the athlete did.
Coach Mode is on the web app and on Android. The Squad tab lists every athlete, when they last tested and how many results they have, and each athlete has one page with their records, progress and every result. The workbook is how you take all of that off the phone and into the place where you plan the next block.
The Android app is on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedtrackr.reactionpro
On an iPhone or a laptop, use the web app: https://www.speedtrackr.com/auth/login
There is no native iPhone app. iPhone users use the web app.
After your next testing week, try one thing. Open the Summary tab before you open anything else, and look at the change column. That is your next week's plan, already sorted.
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