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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

What are the most valuable tests for assessing hip and groin function and why?

Steve Short Michael Giakoumis Enda King Michael Palladino Edward Gannon Patrick Pröller Matthew DeLang

Anaerobic speed reserve: Individualising conditioning in team sports

Phil Scott

Strength and Power

S&C programming for goalkeepers: Meeting position specific demands

Curvilinear sprinting: How we can test and train this unique quality

Alberto Filter

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

Injury Prevention

Monitoring and training for hip and groin health in-season

Career Development

What is the most common mistake you see junior practitioners make when they start working in elite sport?

David Cosgrave Tom Taylor James Bunce Darcy Norman Des Ryan Perry Stewart

Innovation and Technology

Daily monitoring data: what actually influences changes to day-to-day practice

Strength and Power

Velocity based training: The past, present of future

Jonathon Weakley

Injury Prevention

The growing importance of anticipating, managing, and developing high-speed actions in football

Tom Allen Matt Taberner

Speed before “fitness”: Reordering preseason priorities in rugby union

Improving change of direction ability, deceleration drills and coaching “transitional movements”

Hailu Theodros

Innovation and Technology

How sEMG aids exercise selection, technique, and progression within rehabilitation

Innovation and Technology

How 3D motion capture aids problem solving during rehabilitation

Innovation and Technology

Use cases for VBT within rehabilitation: when and how to best utilise it

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