GPS has become more and more mainstream in professional sports. The combination of improvement in technology, as well as reduction of cost over time, has made these systems more accessible to most pro and college teams. I think using GPS is team sport is important because training is too hectic and there is no other... Continue Reading →
The term eccentric overload gets tossed around so much that it seems that some are labeling anything eccentric regardless of load or anything that is done on a flywheel device as "eccentric overload". In reality, most eccentrics done in the weight room are not eccentric overload at all. The term eccentric overload should only be... Continue Reading →
Most of the weekly training schemes we see are planned around the starting 11. While, of course, it's important for training weeks to be planned with the intention of the team's starting players being the most prepared (or least fatigued) on match days, but if substitute players aren't handled differently, this can quickly become an... Continue Reading →
In team sports it is now commonplace to have GPS wearables and different camera systems to track specific metrics such as distance covered, high intensity runs, etc. This has become a great tool in the ability to monitor a team of athletes much more closely than what was once not possible. With this GPS data... Continue Reading →
Recovery days are just as important as training days - arguably more so because without recovery it's near impossible to continue to train hard. Recovery methods (depending on the sport) can range from stretching, foam rolling, tempo running, bodybuilding circuits, pool workouts, massage, thermotherapy, cryotherapy, and many more. Depending on the sport and athlete(s) in... Continue Reading →
Tracking player volumes throughout the season is just one piece to the monitoring puzzle, but can be an important one. This particular study looks at volumes of high speed running (HSR) and the risk of injury associated with specific volume ranges of HSR. They found that high speed running volumes below 675m per week had... Continue Reading →
A daily dashboard should be the place you can get an overview of the most important metrics in one quick glance. What is important to some teams, may not be as important to others. We are using the Catapult GPS system and while I could create a bunch of different charts to see the same... Continue Reading →
At Orlando City SC, we have an MLS team, an NWSL team, and a USL team. The great thing about this is that we have a lot of personnel to share ideas among the teams. The men's assistant fitness coach passed this research paper along to me and it backs up the idea that I wrote... Continue Reading →
I feel like this topic has been written about hundreds of times, but I really think with all of the information and content on the internet, misinformation is at an all-time high in many, many sports. While I realize many people wouldn't classify soccer as a speed/power sport in a classically defined sense, but the... Continue Reading →
