Ms. Namita Nayyar
You are presently based in San Francisco, USA and are the Director of Global Partnerships at SVEXA (Silicon Valley Exercise Analytics), which is an exercise intelligence and sports analytics company. Throw some light on the company and your role.
Ms. Shikha Tandon
SVEXA is an exercise intelligence company that offers optimisation of training, recovery, and performance to athletes – both elite and recreational. Over the past decade, with the advances in wearable technology and data collection methods, many athletes and coaches have access to potentially hundreds of data streams. This could include data such as sleep metrics, nutrition, heart rate, activity and workout data, GPS data, biological markers, physiological data etc.
However, the challenge is to integrate all these data streams to offer personalised insights for the individual. While most of our work started off with elite athletes, the learnings can be applied to the general population for health and wellness too.
My role involves forging strategic business partnerships with athletes, sports teams, technology, and health & wellness entities.
Ms. Namita Nayyar
You believe in giving back to the society & are on the board of a non-profit organisation in India called Bridges of Sports, where they work with the Siddi community in Northern Karnataka. What’s your role in the project?
Ms. Shikha Tandon
I’m on the advisory board for Bridges of Sport, and work closely with the Founder/CEO in a strategic and consulting capacity, to enable them to fulfill their mission of providing athletic training programs to children from tribal and underserved communities in India. At the moment, the focus is on the Siddi community in Northern Karnataka. Within this community, we’re building one of India’s first hyperlocal talent identification and development programs. We’ve
also been able to partner with sports science organisations across the world to offer these athletes and coaches the best training methods and practices.
Ms. Namita Nayyar
Your daily fitness routine? 5 Stretches every sports person should practice to avoid injury?
Ms. Shikha Tandon
For the past 1.5 years, given the restrictions related to the pandemic, my daily workout has been chasing after my toddler at home! We also enjoy going on weekend hikes, since gyms and swimming pools have been closed for most of the past year.
Stretching is extremely important, both before and after a workout. The actual stretch or movement will depend on the activity being performed. For someone like me, who is a few weeks postpartum and has a newborn at home, I ensure that I stretch out my shoulders, chest, back, hips, and legs to prevent any injuries related to caring for her.
