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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

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Rehab can't wait for the clinic: Early movement and loading is critical to post-surgery rehab

Julio Caballero López Victor Jimenez Aransay

Understanding what maximises training transfer through intelligent data collection

Nick Lumley

Injury Prevention

Measuring, monitoring, and training for athletic hip and groin function

Tyler Collings Matthew Bourne

From pregnancy to RTP: Managing motherhood in professional sports

Workload Monitoring

Stop measuring everything: Refining data collection for minimum effective monitoring

Nikolaos Asimakidis Anthony Turner

Workload Monitoring

Maximising the impact of RPE data and other subjective measures

Anticipating, preventing, and managing growth-related injuries

David Johnson Xabier Monasterio

Workload Monitoring

How has moving beyond linear GPS metrics and towards multidirectional metrics improved how you monitor and manage athlete load?

Hailu Theodros James Rhodes Matt Jay Mauro Mandorino Darcy Norman Will Currie Denny Noor

Sprint modelling, strategic periodisation and using decision trees to standardise programming

Ernie Rimer

Workload Monitoring

Heart rate data and its derivatives show the true ‘cost’ of training

Career Development

What is a harsh truth about working in high performance sport that people don't want to admit?

Dave Hamilton John Currie Sarah Smith Nick Grantham Chris Stackpole Jazz Sodhi

Using GPS to understand HOW someone moves, not just where they move through SpeedSig

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

Innovation and Technology

Integrating sports science into a college football performance programme

Mitchell Cholewinski

Calculating maturity overcomes the bias towards early-developing youth athletes

David Johnson Rich Kite

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