The National Team of Iceland uses JOHAN GPS Tracking and power BI tool Quicksight to do GPS analysis. Tom Joel (1st team Fitness Coach) explains how
In multiple countries in Europe is a discussion on whether and when the competition should be restarted. And different countries also differ in their approach towards this issue. For example, in Germany, group training sessions have already restarted, although only in smaller groups. But most trainers won’t have come across a situation like this before. […]
No one knows how long the corona crisis will have an influence on the lives of millions of people around the world. And even though everyone is faced with this uncertainty, these times are especially stressful for athletes. Athletes are used to working with strict schedules to be able to peak at a specific time […]
How to maintain fit during the Corona crisis? The Coronavirus will have an impact on football clubs and the fitness levels of players. Individual training programs can help maintain fitness. This blog will provide guidelines on how to handle these extreme situations
In the last two blogs, we explained how to determine the optimal weekly training load for a team, and how to distribute this load over the week. For most teams, the weekly load for high accelerations will already be close to the optimal training-to-match ratio. In contrast, the weekly sprint load will (in most cases) […]
To prepare your team for the challenging demands of a match, the match load should form the basis of your training program. As we have seen in the last blog, the optimal weekly load for a team can be determined based on the match load. The important question is: how should this load be distributed […]
The aim of training is to prepare players for the technical, tactical, psychological and physical aspects of the match. By using a monitoring system (for example GPS sensors and wellness questionnaires), coaches are able to monitor the readiness of players to train or play a match. For this, they will look at the amount of […]
In this blog, we will explain how positional data (i.e. objective data) can further inform on the fatigue levels of the players.
Measuring heart rate is one of the most popular ways of monitoring load in team sports. If the heart rate of players were high during a session, we assume that it was a physically challenging session and vice versa. Because of this very intuitive method of monitoring load, it is one of the most popular […]
