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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...
Football analysis software
Football data analysis with GPEXE software The data summary provided by the GPEXE system for the single track The quantitative evaluation of a training session or a fraction thereof yields an in depth analysis. The assessment of total distance and heart rate as a...
Football analysis comparison
Three approaches compared Football video analysis, GPS tracking and football speed radar on the pitch The paragraphs that follow are devoted to a comparison of three systems commonly utilised to collect information on the players’ positions during football...
Monitoring anaerobic activity
How to analyse metabolic power in relation to individual characteristics Monitoring anaerobic activity with GPS This article was updated on 12 September 2017. Is there any advantage in representing the performance of the player using the metabolic power approach? Yes,...
Introduction to metabolic power
What it is and why use it Over the years, the quantification of the physical demand required in the game of soccer has been the subject of many scientific papers considering parameters such as body temperature, heart rate, and lactic acid concentration. All methods...