Preventable injury and illness are major problems
Poor load management is a leading risk factor
Frequency is alarming
1.5M high school and college athletes are injured in the US every year, while every hour, 172 student-athletes suffer a sports injury severe enough to seek medical attention.
Costs are enormous
Injuries can cause athletes’ to drop-out from sport, negatively affect his/her long term health and often place an increased burden on the health care system.
Athletes can be overtrained or undertrained
Athletes who are training intensively walk a fine line between peak performance and health issues. Training too much (or to little) will inevitably result in disappointing performance, illnesses or injury.
We can help
AthleteMonitoring.com uses evidence-based methods to provides you with a real-time picture of each athlete’s risk of injury and readiness. It helps you adjust training programs based on individual response to load, and improve performance safely.
Keep athletes in the ‘high performance-low risk’ zone
Load, injuries and performance are closely tied. Optimal workload management helps you monitor the individual load-performance-injury relationship and maximize athletic potential safely
The Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio (ACWR) is a crucial workload management metric that measure the relationship between acute load (3-7 day load) and chronic load (21-28 day average load). Monitoring ACWR helps to keep athletes in the ‘high-load, low-risk zone’ and maximize performance while minimizing the risk of injuries. (Adapted from: Foster, 1996; Gabbett TJ, 2016)
The high performance–low risk zone
Monitoring the acute:chronic workload ratio keeps athletes in the high-load, low-risk zone. (Adapted from Gabbett, 2016)
Risk is Multifaceted–Everything Counts
AthleteMonitoring.com helps you monitor risk factors in real time, and optimize workload using a holistic approach
AthleteMonitoring.com in Practice
- Athletes complete a short wellness questionnaire every morning and a quick post-session questionnaire.
- Coaches or sport scientits can also import GPS, heart rate and external load data from their preferred wearable device / sport tracker.
- AthleteMonitoring alerts coaches when an athlete is not ready for a hard training day, when risk increases and provide ‘how-to-fix’ recommendations.
- AthleteMonitoring analyse wellness (fatigue, stress, sleep quality, etc), readiness and workload metrics (acute:chronic workload ratio, week to week load increase, monotony, strain, etc.) and identify individual issues using evidence-based algorithms and published risk thresholds.
- Coach can then make an informed decision and adapt the athlete’s program based on the athletes’ individual workload alerts, fatigue (physical and psychological), wellness, fitness, health and recovery levels.
When workload increases by ≥15 % from the preceding week, the risk of injury can increase by up to 50 %
The best tool for the job
Keep everyone engaged, healthy, happy, and ready to win – without breaking the bank.
Simple input
Athlete
- Fatigue
- Sleep
- soreness
- Stress
- Mood
- Pain
- Illnesses
- Injuries
- HRV
- RPE
- Enjoyment
- Personal feedback
- Exercise details
- Results
- And much more
Staff
- Training programs
- Test results
- Injuries
- Notes & documents
- Questionnaires
- Messages & docs
- And much more
Tech tools
- GPS
- Heart rate
- Timing systems
- Match stats
- CSV or API
- And much more
Real-time analysis
Wellness & Readiness
- Preset thresholds
- Z-scores
Workload & Related Risk
- Acute:chronic ratios
- Z-scores
- Weekly load increases
- Monotony
- Strain
- Freshness index
- Lack of rest day
- Hours of practice (youth)
- And more.
Testing data
- Ratios & deficits
- Improvement rates
- Meaningful changes
- Custom standards
Overall Risk
- Composite measure of wellness, workload (measured and predicted) and health data
Best practice approach
- Aligned with the International Olympic Committee consensus statements on load in sport and risk of illness and injuries
- Includes the latest peer-reviewed sports-science research
- Don’t rely on obscure ‘proprietary’ algorithms
Actionable information
- Instant risk analysis
- Real-time alerts
- Recommendations
- Team & Individual dashboards
- Exportable graphs, reports
- Instant export or raw data, stats and reports
- Messages and reminders
Predictable outcomes
- Fitter, stronger athletes
- Better performances
- Less injuries
- Better team collaboration
- Time and money savings
Download our practical guide to load management and injury prevention
In this document, you’ll learn how to use the latest science and evidence-based workload management strategies to improve performance while preventing injuries.
Here is what you can do with AthleteMonitoring.com
- Detect when athletes are becoming at risk of injury or overtraining.
- Improve an athlete’s mental and physical health and their ability to recover, train and compete
- Individualize recovery, training and competition loads more effectively.
- Optimize recovery, training and competition loads more effectively.
- Maximize athlete’s readiness and performance.
- Detect when athletes aren’t coping well with training, and when non-sport stressors are impacting the readiness to train or compete
- Identify when training becomes excessive
- Implement a proactive approach to injury prevention
- Ensure athletes have a fun & enjoyable sport experience
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