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Training Load & Its Monitoring

The document discusses training load and its monitoring. It defines external and internal load and explains how monitoring load is important for understanding athlete adaptation, competition readiness, and injury prevention. It also discusses challenges in monitoring and provides examples of monitoring methods and integrating external and internal load data.

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Training Load & its Monitoring

Kavitha Nambisan
Strength and Conditioning Expert Lead
SAI, NSSC, Bengaluru
What is training load?
• It is an effect of exercise that athlete performs during
training session.
• It is a stress applied to bodily system through exercise
for physiological adaptation.
• Load in sports training is classified based on
– Nature- competitive,training, specific or non specific
– Magnitude - low, medium, sub maximal, maximal
– Direction- selectively directed or multidirected
External load and internal load
• What is external load?
– external load can be calculated from
resistance training, including sets, repetitions,
volume load, and device displacement
velocity
• What is internal load?
– Physiological, biomechanical, psychological,
biochemical response to training stimulus
Components of Training Load- detremining its direction and influence

1. Volume & Intensity


– Volume is total amount of workdone during a
training session
– Intensity is quality of work performed in a given
period of time. More precisely, it is difficulty of work
relative to the athlete’s maximum
– Volume & intensity inverse relationship
2. Character of exercise- General or specific
3. Duration of work
4.Number of repetition
5. Duration or Type of rest interval
Training process
• GAS theory
Overtraining Continuum
What is fatigue?
• Performance is generally considered to be a function of
the difference between fitness and fatigue
• Fatigue will be defined as ‘‘an inability to complete a task
that was once achievable within a recent time frame’’
• It is influenced by many factors- training status,
frequency, duration of work, intensity of work, type of
contraction,type of muscle, type of stimulus,
enviornmental condition.
• when fatigue sets in - movement strategy needs to be
monitored.
• Interaction of external and internal load
Why monitoring load is important?
• To understand training responses of
athlete(adaptation) and competition readiness.
• To minimize the risk of non-functional overreaching
(fatigue lasting weeks to months), injury, and illness
• To understand load- performance relationship and
appropriate planning of training loads and
competitions.
• For Selection and determining which athletes is
ready for demands of competition.
• Athletes feeling of involvement, empower them and
increase their sense of ownership.
What are the challenges?
• Limited- time, money and human
resources- collect and intrepret data.
• Lack of knowledge/ experience
• Insufficient feedback to coaches
• Opportunity to implement change and
provide feedback
Variables Units/descriptors
Frequency Sessions per day, week, month
Time Seconds, minutes, hours
Intensity Absolute, relative
Type Modality, environment
Maximal effort Maximum mean power, jump height
Repeat efforts Number of efforts, quality of efforts
Training volume Time, intensity
Perception of effort RPE
Perception of fatigue and recovery Questionnaires; REST-Q, VAS

Illness Incidence, duration


Injury Type, duration
Biochemistry and hormone analysis Baseline, response to exercise
Technique Movement deviations
Body composition Total body weight, fat mass, fat-free
mass
Sleep Quality, quantity, routine
Psychology Stress, anxiety, motivation
Methods to check external load
• In resistance training- Number of sets*number of reps*
% RM
• Power output speed and acceleration using devices such
as SRM or Power Tap.
• Time Motion Annalysis, GPS,
• Invincible monitoring using GPS, Catapult, PlayerLoad
• Neuromuscular function- Countermovement jump(jump
test) (using force plate, Inertial motion sensors, linear
position transducer), sprint performance , isikinetic and
isoinertial dynamometer
Methods to check internal load
• Rate of perceived exertion(RPE)
• Session RPE
• Monitoring HR
• HR to RPE ratio
• iTRIMP
• Blood lactate concentration
• Blood lactate to RPE ratio
• HR recovery
• HR variability
• Biochemical/Hormonal/Immunological Assessments
• Questionnaires and Diaries- POMS, REST-Q, DALDA,
Multicomponent training distress scale, AROMs
• Psychomotor Speed
• Sleep- Actigraphy
Integration of external and internal load
• How is current Monitoring systems?
• what are the challenges Monitoring team
sports?
• Why Individualised monitoring is
important?
• Why utilising a system based approach is
best method?
Example-
Key features of sustainable monitoring system

• Ease of use/intuitive design


• Efficient result reporting
• Can be used with or without internet connection, i.e. able
to be utilized effectively remotely
• Data should be able to be translated into simple
outcomes, such as effect sizes
• The system should be flexible and adaptable for different
sports and athletes
• Identification of a meaningful change should be simple
andefficient
• Should include an assessment of cognitive function
• Should be able to provide both individual responses and
group responses
Comparative graph from parameters we monitor in Rest and recovery
questionnaire (sample)
Methods
Summary
• Utilizing scientific principles for load monitoring can be
an important means of reducing the risk of non-functional
overreaching, illness, and injury.
• If accurate and easy-to-interpret feedback is provided to
the athlete and coach, load monitoring can result
– in enhanced knowledge of training responses
– aid in the design of training programs
– provide a further avenue for communication between support
staff and athletes and coaches
– enhance an athlete’s performance
References
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-014-
0253-z
• Planning for ultimate sport performance by Dr K. P.
Manilal
• NSCA essential of sport science
• Impellizzerietal2019InternalandExternalLoad-
15yearsonIJSPP

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