I am glad to announce that one more paper from my PhD Thesis was recently published in the American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine.
Abstract:
The main objective of a coach is
to optimize athletic performance. The best performance improvements
come from prescribing an optimal dose of physical training with proper
recovery periods to allow for the greatest adaptation before
competition. The main objective was to validate an inexpensive, easy,
non-invasive, real time tool to control and monitor the training load in
basketball: the BATLOC tool. Fourteen elite female basketball players
from a top-4 team that competes in the England Basketball League
Division I volunteered to participate in this study (20.50 ± 2.31 years
old, 174.21 ± 4.17 cm, 75.21 ± 15.38 kg, BMI of 24.67 ± 4.23, 177.29 ±
7.60 cm of arm span, 19.01 ± 2.34 % of body fat, and 45.18 ± 4.17
ml/kg/min of VO2max. Two mesocycles were analized: pre-season (6 weeks)
and in-season (10 weeks). Training load was controlled and monitored
daily with the BATLOC tool. Heart rate was monitored for every player
every 5 s in each training session. The RPE was measured using the 6-20
Borg scale. The Pearson’s product moment correlation between the means
of intensity, RPE, heart rate, maximum heart rate and equivalent
training load showed an excellent concordance (>0.75). To conclude,
based on the results in this study and the literature reviewed, the
BATLOC tool seems to be a good method to control global internal
training load in basketball. This method does not require any expensive
equipment and may be very useful and convenient for coaches to monitor
the internal training load of basketball players.
Keywords: RPE, heart rate, periodisation, team sports.
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