Elevating performance, empowering ambition
PODIUM is transforming the landscape of sports training by offering coaches and athletes a platform to connect and excel together.
Solutions for coaches
Due to high start up costs, time restraints, and marketing challenges, many top tier professionals do not offer their content or services online. Even the most renowned performance specialists find it difficult to stand out from the crowd in the unregulated and saturated online fitness market.
Revenue stream
Many sports professionals work short term contracts with teams or organisations, making the opportunity for an additional & passive income stream enticing.
Built for scale
Capabilities include language translation, metric and imperial data options, timezone schedule adjustment and automated currency/tax management.
Ratings & reviews
In addition to a 'Pro' or 'Verified' badge, testimonials, and an outline of experience, coach profiles contain a rating & review system to maximise consumer trust.
Superior coaching tools
POD1UM provides coaches with an advanced workout builder, content creation tools, athlete management system and audio/video calling features.
Promotion tools
POD1UM provides marketing & referral tools for coaches to fully leverage their social following, and that of their athletes, to acquire paid members and customers.
Exercise library
POD1UM provides an extensive library of over 3,000 exercises. This include unique drone recorded conditioning drills for soccer, rugby and gaelic games.
Coach acquisition
Coaches join the platform by invitation. Invites can be received from POD1UM, or from any other professional on the platform.
Once signed in, they can build out their profile, create training content/services, obtain a ‘Pro’ or ‘Verified’ badge to become featured on the marketplace, and launch & scale a successful online business.
Partnerships
Collaborations on POD1UM offer pro verified coaches the potential to benefit from the social proof and influence of the elite athletes they work with, without sacrificing on supply quality. Athletes may perform workout demonstrations, participate in a promotional podcast/blog materials and assist in marketing “their plan, by their coach”.
Additionally, coach collaborations with official commercial partners, presents the opportunity for further promotion, and revenue generation.
Solutions for athletes
Motivated athletes are actively seeking an edge in their training. However, significant search costs are accrued when trying to find guidance from a high quality sports professional.
A lack of regulation in the fitness industry has led to trust issues for consumers, and reduced confidence when considering training content or services online.
Search engine
At its core, POD1UM is a marketplace that enables athletes to easily find high quality sports performance content & services.
Exercise history
Every exercise set completed is available to both athletes and coaches to monitor progress, and guide future workouts.
Trust & verification
Coaches featured on POD1UM are vetted for both experience and expertise, with verification badges displayed as proof.
Free content
All users can access a library of free workouts, a curated blog feed and an advanced workout builder.
Seamless swaps
With a POD1UM membership athletes can seamlessly swap between training plans at no additional cost.
Flexible support
POD1UM offers flexible support options including AI powered chat, message support, and video/audio calling.
Athlete user journey
When an athlete first joins POD1UM, they complete a quick interactive onboarding flow. This provides data, such as their sport, training objectives, age and level, that can improve recommendations and the overall experience on the platform
Users can immediately access free workouts, or build their own using a library of >3,000 exercises.
For users who wish to access full training plans or premium content, their Explore page contains a filtered selection of listings to suit their specific requirements.
Paid POD1UM members benefit from access to content & services from verified professionals, high levels of flexibility (plan swaps & support tiers), and having all training data collated on the one platform.
Athlete acquisition
An athlete may discover POD1UM from a search, a promotion by a coach or partner, a referral from another athlete, or from a paid Ad.
Signing up is both free & easy, and POD1UM converts 4.2% of all accounts to paid users or members.
Join a winning team
Fuelled by network effects, POD1UM has significant potential to be a major player globally within a rapidly growing market. Invest in the future of athletic training and sports performance.