Mathieu, sports coach MYS Session with four clients during a running session on the Prom in Nice.

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E. Martin / ANP / 20 Minutes

  • The application allows you to find a sport session in relation to the place where it is located, the time, the level and the price.

  • All coaches are certified professionals.

  • The objective for the creator of the application is to develop this concept everywhere in France.

Sports halls closed since the second confinement and a curfew at 6 p.m., the conditions are not necessarily met to let off steam.

If some people are motivated to join video conferencing training, others are tired of being locked up and prefer the outdoors.

But then, where to practice, at what times, with whom and at what intensity?

Thomas Bouchard, sports coach for eleven years, wanted to answer all these questions by launching the MYS Sessions smartphone application in Nice last June.

“The goal is to help coaches and users by connecting them directly”.

With two friends, they started from the realization that an application was necessary in this environment where everything was done by word of mouth.

“Thanks to the app, the user can quickly find a class based on their location and what they want to do, such as yoga or running.

He directly sees all the information whether it is price, duration or level.

The goal is to offer as many activities as possible with a true description so that the customer can book in complete transparency, ”explains the Niçois.

"It's a real advantage to have a coach"

Thomas Bouchard specifies: “The coaches are all on their own, we provide them with support.

To register, they must be certified.

Afterwards, they fix their price, if it is a payment in cash or bank card ”.

After eight months of launch, the application has 55 participating coaches, mainly in Nice and 900 users.

Among them, Casandra, Alexa, Cécilia and Majda.

This Thursday, they had an appointment at 12:15 in the Albert 1er garden with Mathieu Putois, their coach.

"This is the fourth time that I come, it's a real happiness", confides one of the participants.

This flight attendant had had enough of a sedentary lifestyle and registered on the app.

“In a few sessions, I can already see how much I am improving.

It's a real advantage to have a coach.

Even if we do not all have exactly the same level, he adapts and motivates us.

And then, it's really the best to be able to meet with friends ”.

Fractional and muscle building

On the program, twenty-two minutes of races then eight times fifteen seconds of acceleration without forgetting small muscle strengthening exercises.

In all, one hour of coaching for five euros.

“They are well worth them.

If I was alone, I would give up, I wouldn't know how to improve my breathing or how to tone my muscles, ”admits another athlete.

"I'm not necessarily looking for performance," says Mathieu Putois, coach since 2004. But it's true that I always want to take my three clients further every week.

Some had never run, the goal is that in a month, they can do an hour of non-stop running.

And the progression is there: during their first session, in mid-January, the young women stopped after two minutes.

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