1. Introduction LITA is a company specialised in physical performance, particularly in everything around speed: acceleration, changes of direction, maximum velocity and gym. We work closely with elite athletes, national football and rugby teams, and numerous top-flight football and rugby clubs in France. We also have a sprint group, LITAthletics, training elite sprinters for the […]

Karim is Head of Performance at the Jordan Football Association. He shared his experience on how they successfully completed the FIFA Talent Development Scheme (TDS) application process, to embrace technological advancements and foster talent on the widest scale. Let’s delve together into the impact of the TDS on youth football development. Karim, could you walk us […]

Eduardo is Fitness Coach at Empoli Primavera. He shared his experience on how he used gpexe mechanical analysis to profile his U19 players and to monitor their performance, with a particular focus on neuro-muscular load. Eduardo, in practice, how do you use these parameters? As previously mentioned, together with the U19 staff we have decided […]

Eduardo is a Fitness Coach at Empoli U19 (Primavera). He shared his experience of using gpexe to profile his U19 players and monitor their performance, with a particular focus on neuro-muscular load.  Eduardo, starting this season, you have new information available to describe the performance concerning the neuro-muscular load. What is your impression at this […]

The use of GPS in professional rugby is widespread and allows the Strength and Conditioning team to collaborate closely with the coaching staff, ensuring that trainings are replicating games from a physical, technical, tactical and psychological perspective. Benetton Rugby shares its experience with the use of the gpexe system through the words of his Head […]

Heavy sled training is one of the most effective training interventions to improve the horizontal force, i.e. the forward acceleration. This article relates to the practical experience of Benetton Rugby during the last season.   Introduction Many team sports, such as rugby, soccer and football, are characterised by many different playing positions, all defined by […]

Although the injury is a complex and multifactorial phenomenon, numerous studies highlighted how less than optimal workload management represents one of the biggest injury risk factors. Therefore, the possibility of excluding one of these factors is an opportunity that trainers, coaches and sports scientists cannot ignore.   3 ACWR calculation models There are two main […]

The ideal training stimulus maximises performance and simultaneously reduces the negative consequences of the training, i.e. the onset of fatigue and the risk of injury. The ratio between the workload carried out during the last week (“acute workload”) and the average of the workloads sustained in the previous four weeks (“chronic workload”) is called Acute:Chronic […]

Obtaining more powerful and prolonged high-intensity actions through the increase in the duration of the recovery phases, better if during the possession phase. This is the main goal in Empoli FC’s work philosophy. The Fitness Coach Rocco Perrotta, with previous experiences abroad in CSKA and Levski Sofia, AEL Limassol and Bulgary National Team, as well […]

Hellas Verona, promoted to Serie A at the end of last year and performing very well so far this season, is a gpexe customer from summer 2019. Prof. Paolo Barbero, fitness coach and a veteran gpexe user, explains why the gpexe system has been chosen by his new club. Paolo Barbero – Hellas Verona Fitness […]

Massimo Catalano, fifteen years of experience as a strength and conditioning coach in Serie A, from SS Lazio to Palermo Calcio, ACF Fiorentina and finally to UC Sampdoria with whom he has been working for 5 years, explains how he uses the gpexe system. He also shares some data and reflections on both an annual […]

After the experience with the Albanian national team, the promotion to the Lega Pro with the Triestina Calcio and after having missed the play-off by a whisker, the trainer Luca Bossi shared his experience with gpexe, not only in terms of monitoring the athletic performance but also regarding experimentation, looking for correlations between technical and […]