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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

Innovation and Technology

Rethinking how we use GPS data: Should non-normative be the norm?

Thomas Little Martin Buchheit

Winning the Rugby World Cup, alcohol periodisation, and conditioning rugby players

Aled Walters

Strength and Power

Performance training and therapy in paddle sports: What we can learn from canoe and kayak

Workload Monitoring

If you had no budget for technology, how would you monitor training load?

Harry Routledge Brendan Fahrner Marc Lewis Matt Kan Adam Hoffman Perry Blanchette

Short-HIIT for field-sports: Programming across the season and during RTP

Strength and Power

Microdosing 'Til I Die? How Sunderland adapted their S&C for the Premier League

Career Development

Building a genuine network and expanding your responsibilities to make yourself indispensable

Donnell Boucher

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

Matteo Pontiggia Tommy Bright

Injury Prevention

Developing and maintaining an injury risk reduction strategy at the Kansas City Royals

Austin Driggers

Medial collateral ligament injury management and return-to-play

Roberto Ricupito

Assisted CMJ: Same but faster, or a unique task worth studying?

Strength and Power

Rethinking dynamic strength index: Parts are greater than the whole

Strength and Power

Understanding and implementing isometric testing and training with athletes

Maximal aerobic speed vs. Tempo: Which is optimal for team sport aerobic fitness?

Periodising sport performance training in collegiate women's soccer

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