Objective internal load monitoring should be at the heart of performance training

Regardless of sport, sport performance practitioners have two primary objectives. First, they are there to help athletes sustain sports-specific performance with less decay than their opposition. Second, they aim to develop the athletes’ physiological reserves to tolerate the physical and technical demands of increasing competition schedules. Objective internal load monitoring has been pushed aside by an ever-growing focus on external load monitoring or subjective internal load monitoring. But this runs counter to the goal of developing the physiological reserves of our athletes. For the adapt...