Tracking Systems Used to Monitor the Performance and Activity Profile in Elite Team Sports
- Injury prevention: Physical load control of the players is one of the major objectives that physical training departments of teams or athletes aim for. Knowing the internal and external diary load of the athlete allows training objectives to be readjusted and physical performance to be optimized. The data obtained thought the previously commented technology can be synchronized with heart rate monitoring, which facilitates the knowledge of internal load generated by training stimulus, as well as a mechanical load which the athlete is subjected to.
- The orientation of training tasks: The information provided by this technology allows for the identification of critical competition sceneries, in other words, the highest demands that athletes are subjected to when facing a match and/or sports competition in which their objective is to achieve the best result. The identification of these physical demands allows us to orientate training tasks as well as their planning with their adaptive process consecution; this enables the athletes to cope with these competing demands when subjected to them.
- Technical–tactical development: The provision of the positional data of the athletes enables one to identify their limitations and strengths regarding tactical behavior. In team sports, the interaction between the components of the same team, as well as the presence of the opposition, is essential to obtain results. For this reason, the information provided by these technological systems allows the establishment of interaction networks with the aim of knowing the tactical behavior of the team, in order to enhance the identified weaknesses and guide training tasks based on quantitative information.
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Felipe, J.L.; Garcia-Unanue, J.; Gallardo, L.; Sanchez-Sanchez, J. Tracking Systems Used to Monitor the Performance and Activity Profile in Elite Team Sports. Sensors 2021, 21, 8251. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21248251
Felipe JL, Garcia-Unanue J, Gallardo L, Sanchez-Sanchez J. Tracking Systems Used to Monitor the Performance and Activity Profile in Elite Team Sports. Sensors. 2021; 21(24):8251. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21248251
Chicago/Turabian StyleFelipe, Jose Luis, Jorge Garcia-Unanue, Leonor Gallardo, and Javier Sanchez-Sanchez. 2021. "Tracking Systems Used to Monitor the Performance and Activity Profile in Elite Team Sports" Sensors 21, no. 24: 8251. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21248251