Performance & Health Insights for Sports Teams

Sports performance is not linear, especially for women. Improving the performance of female athletes calls for more knowledge.

Discover how to reduce injury risk and optimize player readiness using RPE, wellness tracking, and heart rate data in 2025.

Discover how to optimize training load, heart rate, RPE, and wellness tracking to prevent injuries and boost performance.

When sports teams are looking for a GPS tracker, many end up choosing the same few brands. But why?

While the Johan Sports Web App gives you real-time control over daily performance, Power BI adds a powerful layer of long-term insight, helping you make smarter, data-driven decisions for your team.

De legendarische wedstrijd tegen SC Heerenveen zal de geschiedenisboeken ingaan. We spraken met hoofdcoach Thomas Duivenvoorden en analyseerden de wedstrijd op basis van de wedstrijdgegevens van JOHAN Sports.

Technology and physiotherapy come together in a new partnership between JOHAN Sports and Pro-F Physiotherapy. By using the advanced PACER system, athletes can now be better monitored, and their recovery process improved. This partnership aims to set a new standard in athlete support and physiotherapy, helping them safely and effectively return to their original performance levels.

Monitoring heart rate is a vital aspect of optimizing performance and recovery in athletes. While many performance coaches already track external load using GPS sensors, monitoring internal load via heart rate data remains one of the few objective and practical methods to understand how a player's body responds to intensive training and matches.

Ten years ago, Jelle Reichert, founder of JOHAN Sports, ventured into uncharted territory with the very first version of the JOHAN GPS tracker for athletes: the V1 — a prototype that was far from perfect. However, one team, De Graafschap, under the guidance of head coach Jan Vreman, was willing to take on the challenge. Now, a decade later, both GPS technology and the use of data in sports have evolved significantly. In a twist of fate, Vreman is once again the head coach of De Graafschap, making this moment a fitting occasion to celebrate not only JOHAN Sports' 10-year anniversary but also a decade-long collaboration with De Graafschap.

Understanding the menstrual cycle is key to smarter training for female athletes. Johan Sports now integrates cycle tracking with GPS, heart rate, and RPE. Helping athletes log symptoms and adapt training to each phase. This leads to better performance, faster recovery, and fewer injuries.

The Johan Sports PACER system gives athletes the freedom to train solo, anytime, anywhere. Using the Live App, data is synced to the cloud, allowing coaches to monitor GPS and heart rate performance remotely. Ideal for camps, rehab, or off-season programs.

Cold weather significantly affects heart rate responses in football players. For teams using GPS and heart rate monitoring systems, it’s crucial to understand how lower temperatures influence cardiovascular load. In this article, we explain how cold conditions impact heart rate, what it means for interpreting training data, and how to adjust load monitoring for winter sessions.