Quantifying Sporting Actions from Competition to Monitor Fatigue

For a sport like soccer, the physical stress from competition constantly varies based on opponent, playing surface, competition schedule and so forth. Advancements in technology have resulted in the development and application of GPS monitoring to quantify training load during practices and competitions. However, this technology can be cost prohibitive for many sub-elite organizations with …

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Competition Schedule Impact on Long-Term Performance

As fatigue accumulates in an athlete, fitness qualities become masked and full potential is not realized until fatigue subsides. Strength, power, muscular endurance, conditioning, etc., can decline when sufficient recovery is unattained. During a competitive season, managing fatigue is crucial to keeping athletes healthy and performing optimally. Monitoring strategies along with recovery and restoration modalities …

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Effective Athlete Monitoring: Wellness Questionnaires

Advancements in both sports science and technology have resulted in the development of very sophisticated equipment for monitoring athletes and quantifying training load. At elite levels of competition, coaches may be using expensive GPS devices to keep track of player load. Blood testing, heart rate variability, psychomotor speed changes, and so forth may also be …

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Waking Resting Heart Rate and Testosterone

A morning measurement of resting heart rate has been used to assess fatigue levels in athletes for quite some time now. Generally speaking, higher resting heart rates upon waking are indicative of higher levels of fatigue. Monitoring changes over time is thought to provide a good, objective measure of physical stress. It has been suggested …

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