Measuring workload in team sport athletes

Question 1

How can we measure lower body fatigue?

Answer 1

Countermovement Jump

Question 2

Why must consider both efficacy and effectiveness in terms of analysis equipment (GPS)?

Answer 2

Effectiveness and Efficacy both in ters of GPS systems must be considered. The gps system is extremely effective at mapping data such as session intensity but if it takes 2 days for this data to be extracted, the efficacy isn’t there.

Question 3

What are the key principles that need to be applied when collecting session RPE?

Answer 3

Time after activity when RPE is collected.

Ask players individually not in a group.

Question 4

What are our internal measures to an activity?

Answer 4

• RPE
• S-RPE
• HR
• HR to RPE ratio
• Lactate concentraion
• Lactate to RPE ratio
• HRR
• HRV
• Biochemical/Hormonal/Immunological
• Questionnaire and Diaries
• Sleep

Question 5

What are the external measures to an activity?

Answer 5

• Power, Output, Speed
• Time-motion analysis
• Neuromuscular function

Question 6

How is high speed running established?

Answer 6

Velocity above a set speed x the time spent at that velocity

Question 7

How do we calculate session RPE?

Answer 7

Take the description number from the scale and multiply by session duration.

Question 8

What is the difference between acute and chronic load?

Answer 8

Acute load - What the athlete has been doing in the previous week.
Chronic load - What the athlete has been doing in the past 4 weeks taken as an average

Question 9

What could acute load and chronic load potentially be classed as?

Answer 9

Acute load may represent an athletes fatigue status whereas their chronic load can represent their fitness level.

Question 10

What is the ‘sweet spot’ for acute to chronic ratios?

Answer 10

The sweet spot ratio is anything 0.8:1.3 (acute:chronic)
By achieveing this you will optimise performance as well as reduce the risk of injuyr. as both overtraining and lack of training = increase injury risk.

Question 11

What would ‘1’ acute:chronic work ratio mean?

Answer 11

It would mean that the acute load is exactly the same as the previous 4 weeks. q

Question 12

How do we calculate Acute:Chronic work ratio?

Answer 12

Lower threshold = chronic load x 0.8

Upper threshold = chronic load x 1.3

Question 13

Identify two objective training old variables used to monitor training intensities from GPS?

Answer 13

High speed running (HSR)
Relative distance (m/min)