Lecture 7 - Measuring Workload in Team Sports Athletes

Question 1

What is the impact/ interpretation of chronic load.

Answer 1

• As training progresses though the weeks becoming harder chronic load rises which increases fatigue, however when acute load drops during a de-load week there is a state of fitness achieved,.

Question 2

What are ways of measuring load?

Answer 2

• Subjective
• Objective
• Internal
• External

Question 3

What is the biggest factor that influenced training load?

Answer 3

• Session duration

Question 4

What is external load and some examples of this ?

Answer 4

• The external response to an activity.
• Power Output
• Speed
• Time-Motion Analysis
• Neuromuscular Function

Question 5

What is efficacy and effectiveness?

Answer 5

• Efficacy - the ability to produce a desire or intended result (Knowledge generation)
• Effectiveness - the degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result (Knowledge application)

Question 6

Good biochemical marker of muscle damage?

Answer 6

• CK

Question 7

What is the IOC consensus on training load?

Answer 7

• The sport and non-sport burden as a stimulus that is applied to a human biological system

Question 8

What is the sweet sport for acute: chronic ratio ?

Answer 8

• Sweet sport for the acute chronic ratio is 0.8 - 1.3
• this is the upper and lower threshold for chronic load.
• To calculate if your chronic load is 2000 you multiply it by these figures 0.9-1.3 to equal a range for chronic load between 1600 - 2600.

Question 9

What is the dose - response relationship

Answer 9

• Relationship between how the external load applied and how this effected the internal load of the athlete.
• How these two then effected the fatigue and readiness to play.

Question 10

What is internal load and some examples of this ?

Answer 10

• Internal response to an activity.
• RPE
• S-RPE
• HR
• HR to RPE Ratio
• Lactate Concentration
• Lactate to RPE Ration
• HRR
• HRV
• Biochemical/ Hormonal/ Immunological Assessments
• Questionnaire and Diaries
• Sleep

Question 11

What is validity?

Answer 11

• Testing what you want to test.

Question 12

How do you measure upper and lower body Neuromuscular fatigue?

Answer 12

• Upper- Plyometric pressup

- Lower - CMJ

Question 13

What factors an determine and individual training load?

Answer 13

• External load organisation, quality and quantity

- Individual characteristics

Question 14

What is acute and chronic load?

Answer 14

• Acute- The total work that the athlete may do either daily or weekly and is seen as a fatigue status
• Chronic - The average load over 4 weeks and is seen as fitness status.

Question 15

What is the equation for fitness status and what can being above the chronic load mean for performance?

Answer 15

• Fitness status = chronic - acute loads.

- Can reduce performance and lack of fitness and lead to injury.