Method.
Method is knowing which tool to use, when, and why. We start from what the club has, not from what we wish it had.
Four things we won't give up.
Evidence before opinion.
We use a protocol when there's proof it works and we know why. When there isn't, we tell you.
Your context sets the rules.
A club with no budget starts with RPE in a form. Another, with GPS for years, starts by reading what it already has.
The aim is you not needing us.
We train your staff to run the system. At the end of the contract, you renew or carry on alone.
Honesty.
We say what we know how to do and what we don't. And if an athlete's data isn't enough to draw a conclusion, we say that too.
The four base tools.
Backed by research and within reach of any club.
RPE
After every session, the athlete says how hard it was, 0 to 10. Times the minutes, that's the internal load. Simple, and cheap.
GPS
Distance, metres per minute, accelerations and peak speeds. The real effort of every session and match.
Wellness
Sleep, fatigue, stress, soreness and mood, every day, in sixty seconds. Next to load, it helps you see overload in time.
Physical tests
Speed, agility, strength, jump, endurance. Two or three times a season, to measure real progress.
Two starting points.
Illustrative scenarios, not client cases.
Padel academy, 40 athletes, zero equipment.
Wellness in an online form, manual tests, injuries in a shared sheet. Six months later there's real information about the squad, without buying anything.
District club with GPS and heart-rate for seasons, nobody looking.
Nothing gets bought. We take what's there and build a weekly dashboard, a report for the head coach and alerts. The data starts being useful.
The science behind it.
The tools above are not our opinion. They are validated in the literature, and the sources are here for anyone who wants to read them.
- Foster, C. (2001). A new approach to monitoring exercise training. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 15(1), 109–115.
- Impellizzeri, F. M., Rampinini, E., Coutts, A. J., Sassi, A., & Marcora, S. M. (2004). Use of RPE-based training load in soccer. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 36(6), 1042–1047.
- Aughey, R. J. (2011). Applications of GPS technologies to field sports. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 6(3), 295–310.
- Cummins, C., Orr, R., O'Connor, H., & West, C. (2013). Global positioning systems (GPS) and microtechnology sensors in team sports: A systematic review. Sports Medicine, 43(10), 1025–1042.
- Mirwald, R. L., Baxter-Jones, A. D., Bailey, D. A., & Beunen, G. P. (2002). An assessment of maturity from anthropometric measurements. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 34(4), 689–694.
Want to see this applied to your club?
In a 30-minute call we tell you where we'd start.