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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

Strength and Power

An applied guide to velocity-based training for maximal strength

Tom Turner

Changing the sprint acceleration techniques of team sport athletes: Part II

Changing the sprint acceleration techniques of team sport athletes: Part I

Essential guide to testing and profiling an athlete during rehabilitation and return to play after ACLR

Developing a plyometric training progression plan

Workload Monitoring

Training load monitoring and the Goldilocks strategy

Innovation and Technology

Innovation in sport, creativity and innovation management

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