The future of athletic training is now accessible through your mobile device thanks to Seattle-based company, Volt Athletics.
Although Volt officially launched in 2013, the company has been picking up speed quickly.
The development of Volt’s new app makes fitness technology readily available at your fingertips. The company’s purpose is to provide workout programming capabilities for coaches and athletes through cloud-based technology.
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Volt’s app is the replacement for the workout buddy that abandons you every leg day. The best thing about the app? You don’t have to worry about it “bulking up” before you do.
The app allows athletes to access programmed, sport-specific workouts in full detail. The details include; number of sets, reps and movements, all specialized for the individual by inputting their specific sport and goals. A user can choose from over 40 different, sport-specific workouts, which include sports like tennis and golf. After that, Volt gathers information and molds a unique plan for the athlete using patented algorithms to push the athlete’s limits.
Volt’s app is backed by arguably, the most well-respected strength and conditioning coach around, Boyd Epley. The “Godfather of Strength and Conditioning” chairs a board of certified strength coaches who oversee Volt’s methodologies and keep programs up-to-date and distinctive.
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The app provides athletes an affordable option to, “elite-level strength and conditioning,” according to Dan Giuliani, Co-Founder and CEO of Volt Athletics. He says, “The best athletes train on a strategic plan; they don’t do random workouts. Volt’s intelligent training engine tells you exactly what to do in the weight room, how to do it, and when to do it. It’s not random – it’s the right workout for you, every time.”
It starts with a free, 7-day trial and then moves to $29 a month membership. So just cut those three, Chipotle burritos out of your monthly diet and you’d have the cash to join and a head start on the proper nutrition.
Over the past three years, Volt was available strictly for elite teams at top schools. However, in November 2015, after a partnership seven months earlier with the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Volt now reaches up to 2,300 professional, high school, and collegiate teams which represent 35,000 athletes in the U.S. and Canada.
With that partnership, Volt brings mobile technology to the strength and conditioning sphere by making workout programmability available for coaches as they manage their athletes, and implement plans through a mobile device, tablet or hard-copy.
Volt makes it simple for athletes to find their workouts with one push of the button … “That was easy!” An interactive workout calendar is also available to athletes, as well as online instruction videos and sport specific injury prevention workouts.
Although the company is relatively small (employing 16 people in Seattle), they’ve still landed multiple partnerships.
In April 2015, Volt announced a partnership with ATAVUS, which targeted specific workout regiments molded for the sport of Rugby. Three months later, Volt agreed on another partnership, this time with USA Football, the non-profit governing body for amateur American football where it gained access to high school football teams.
Volt is also growing financially outside of its partnerships.
In November 2015, Volt received $1 million from an unnamed angel investor which brought their total funding to $2 million in just two years. The cash will be used as development costs to continually expand Volt’s online fitness platform and workouts.
Giuliani believes Volt is leading the way in the technological industry of strength and conditioning. Giuliani says, “This means that the low-tech tools upon which the industry relies — barbells, dumbbells, and medicine balls — now meet high-tech solutions for data measurement and performance analysis. This strategic round accelerates Volt’s ability to unite strength training and technology, bringing safe and effective training to athletes around the world.”
Somewhere you can hear Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous quote, “Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond your limitations.”
Volt Athletics plans to push athletes past those limitations.