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Empoli’s gpexe experience
An interview with the S&C coach Roberto Peressutti The strength and conditioning coach Roberto Peressutti and Italian Empoli’s football team manager Marco Giampaolo have been working together for a long time. We met Roberto and had a quick chat about the GPS...
Genoa’s gpexe experience
The Genoa Fitness Coach talks about his experience with the GPEXE monitoring system. Alessandro Pilati and Paolo Barbero are responsible for the strength and conditioning training of Genoa’s cricket and football team. Data analyst Luca Trucchi recently joined the...
S.S. Lazio’s gpexe experience
Lazio experience with the GPEXE monitoring system: An interview with Matteo Osti The strength and conditioning coach Matteo Osti and Lazio’s manager Stefano Pioli have been working together for a long time. Osti has also recently become a team member of Lazio’s...
Understanding metabolic power
"Is the Metabolic Power really understood?" An interview with Professor di Prampero to explain some topics about this approach Often the meaning of metabolic power and oxygen consumption are misinterpreted: can we refresh these concepts? The product of the...
Metabolic power 2.0
High energy expenditure events: a brief analysis In a recent article, we tackled the issue of performance analysis and discussed its importance as an extremely useful tool to monitor exercise during training and matches. In particular, we observe that for a given...
Energetic expenditure in football
An unofficial match tracked with GPEXE Nowadays in professional football, one of the aspects that can have great relevancy in high-level sports performance would be to know the energetic expense of a football player during a match or a training session. Thanks to the...
Reliability of 20 HZ gps devices
A brief overview of the use of match analysis in football with the aid of GPS software Shuttle run tests (20, 15, 10, 5 metres) The GPS technology might nowadays be considered as an important reference tool to carefully monitor performance analysis and, specifically,...
Rugby Match analysis techniques: a critique of current methodology
A study of the University of New England, Amidale, Australia The current methodology for rugby game analysis techniques is subject to criticism. Accurate quantification of training volume and intensity is one of the main factors of monitoring training loads. From a...
Gpexe SKY SPORT24 live interview
Udinese using GPEXE: Sky Sport24 report: An abstract from the TV interview to the Udinese Calcio fitness coach Federico Pannonicini and Antonio di Natale “Speaking about numbers, Giorgia, tell him that he’s the only player that in the past years did better than Tevez!...
Limitations of heart rate monitoring
A brief overview In previous papers, we focused on the importance of an analysis based on the athlete’s individual characteristics. We described a whole series of parameters that play a key role in the performance analysis of soccer players and split them into two...
Metabolic Power: the issue of subjectivity
Metabolic power: is it all so simple? (part 2) The study our group published back in 2010 reported the results obtained with the adoption of Di Prampero’s et al method (2005). On that occasion data were collected from 56 matches of the Italian Serie A (First Division)...
Metabolic power performance analysis
Metabolic power: is it all so simple? (part 1) A performance analysis based on metabolic power values Recently the estimate of metabolic power has started playing a key role in the conditioning training of soccer players. Even though the approach we adopted has its...