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Workload Monitoring

Stop measuring everything: Refining data collection for minimum effective monitoring

Nikolaos Asimakidis

Anthony Turner

"You can’t sit in the gym and think, ‘Everyone’s squatting well, we’ve nailed it.’ Without technical transfer, none of it guarantees performance” Introduction In episode #457 of the Pacey Performance Podcast, Rob speaks to Dan Tobin and Dan Grange, who at the time were both at Gloucester Rugby, to explore one of the most challenging…

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

Using collaboration and smart data collection to enhance the transfer of training

Dan Tobin and Dan Grange

Why the Norwegian 4x4 HIIT protocol provides flexibility when programming conditioning

What does preseason look like within a Europa League team?

Nicolás Maidana

Applying the sprint mechanics assessment score (S-MAS) as a framework to address hamstring injuries in elite football

What are the most misunderstood aspects of energy system development in team sports?

Jack Sharkey Martin Buchheit Steve Pledger Adam Sheehan Tzlil Shushan Pierre Austruy

Optimising strength and conditioning for combat athletes

Duncan French, Danny Wilson and Rhys Ingram

Career Development

Group dynamics: Facilitating team function with a data-driven approach

Stabilising rehab and return to play from a lateral collateral ligament injury in a professional footballer

Workload Monitoring

Daily monitoring, what we can learn from a centralised programme and the industry’s cautious approach to performance enhancement

Phil Glasgow

Strength and Power

Maximising hypertrophic potential with optimal ROM training

Workload Monitoring

Monitoring internal load: When heart rate tells a different story than external metrics

How to use the warm up as a movement screen and revolutionising technique analysis with computer vision and AI

Innovation and Technology

Sleep education: Temperature regulating tech and strategies to benefit sleep habits

Workload Monitoring

Integrating task complexity into load monitoring to determine true workload

Recovery, load monitoring and a decade working at the biggest football club in the world

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