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Workload Monitoring

Stop measuring everything: Refining data collection for minimum effective monitoring

Nikolaos Asimakidis

Anthony Turner

From GPS-derived training load and match exposure to force plate outputs, gym performance, wellness, sleep, and blood biomarkers, sport performance practitioners can monitor almost every aspect of an athlete’s performance with increasing ease.[1] This should make decision-making easier. But instead, the challenge has simply changed. We are no longer clamouring for more data. We have…

Using AI, video analysis, and the coaching eye within sprint performance case studies

Calculating maturity overcomes the bias towards early-developing youth athletes

David Johnson Rich Kite

Rebuilding a sport-ready athlete: Reflexive and accelerated eccentrics post-ACL injury

Matteo Pontiggia Tommy Bright

Sprinting experience speeds up cricketers' return to play from hamstring strains

Patellar tendon rupture in pro footballer: Rehab and RTP case study

Training the match-changing moments: Making context matter in GPS data

Dr. Will Sparkes

ACL injuries: Can pre-op care remove the need for surgery?

Strength and Power

The lateral countermovement jump test: The missing piece in your basketball testing battery?

Eric Leidersdorf

Innovation and Technology

Isokinetic dynamometry + Special Strength Methods: Adaptation-led rehab

Injury Prevention

Training a player during the transition from youth football to the pro level

Nathan Griffith

Injury Prevention

Managing and monitoring hip and groin injuries

Individualizing off-season basketball training over multiple seasons

Performance training under tactical periodisation: Understanding the morphocycle

Using force vectors when programming for resistance and jump training

Latest Articles

Early loading opportunities during ACLR rehabilitation with neuromodulation

Julio Caballero López Victor Jimenez Aransay

Workload Monitoring

How to monitor athlete training load with no or minimal budget

Brendan Fahrner

Strength and Power

Isometric training; the why, when and how

Connecting data with the weight room: Selecting the right metrics and creating systems

Strength and Power

The Nordic hamstring exercise; are they safe and effective for athletes?

Franco Impellizzeri

Deceleration-speed profile for in-game monitoring, player profiling, and return to play

Virgile Merlen Victor Azalbert

Strength and Power

Free weights vs. machine weights, what is the argument and is it valid?

Christopher Chase

Triphasic training, the ‘performance pillars’ system, and choosing the right athlete assessments

Adjusting training and nutrition across the menstrual cycle: Performance-based approaches

Sara Chica-Latorre

Workload Monitoring

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

Shane Malone Matthew Ellis

Jump training and the specificity myth in athlete development

Håkan Andersson

Injury Prevention

Ankle sprain injuries: building back from the root cause

What did you stop tracking because it never changed your decisions?

Clive Brewer Eric Rash Chris Bailey John Griffin Zach Higginbotham Fran Silver

Data science, data visualisation and evaluating the effectiveness of a programme

Johann Windt

Strength and Power

The what, how and why of power development, from the view of an expert

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