This section is dedicated to the wealth of knowledge generated by our scientific team, under the guidance of renowned physiology consultants Prof. Pietro Enrico di Prampero and Cristian Osgnach. Here, you’ll find articles that delve into the science behind gpexe, as well as valuable contributions from our users, who have shared their insights and experiences in leveraging gpexe data over the years.
The typical way to assess the acceleration capacities is to perform a maximal sprint starting from the blocks. This would not always be truthful for the football player, who rarely starts from a standstill. This study by Sonderegger K, Tschopp M and Taube W (2016) is very clear about where the problem lies. The authors asked the […]
Match cycle analysis in elite football shows how the traditional Sunday–Sunday routine is becoming increasingly rare. In the 2020–2021 Serie A season,From season to season, it is tougher for fitness coaches to refer to a typical training week (Sunday – Sunday). We decided to dive into the tricky subject of the match cycles deeply. […]
Return To Play: on-field monitoring. That’s the speech’s title of our mate Michele Turloni, who has been our guest in the “4th Football Analytics & Talent Identification Online Event” organised by Vonlanthen Group in March. For 10 years in charge of injury recovery in Udinese Calcio, Michele told us a lot about how he makes decisions […]
Acceleration and deceleration thresholds play a crucial role in football performance monitoring. Understanding how threshold, duration, and starting speed affect detected events helps staff accurately interpret player data and improve workload management. We had a look at the match data of a Serie A player. We analysed accelerations and decelerations by using the standard criteria […]
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 […]
“Metabolic Power Events in Football” is part of a series of webinars held by Cristian Osgnach to go deeper on the workload analysis and the concepts of metabolic power and high-intensity through specific examples on the field. In the first part of the article, we introduced the theory of metabolic power events, specifically by […]
“Metabolic Power Events” is part of a series of webinars held by Cristian Osgnach to go deeper on the workload analysis and the concepts of metabolic power and high-intensity through specific examples on the field. We know that MPE is often considered a smart solution to overcome the limits of acceleration. However, this is […]
High-speed is widely used in team sports to assess the so-called high intensity. For a decade, lots of papers have been written on this topic, but the goal of researchers has changed over time. Let’s start from the very beginning and follow the chronological sequence. Intro The research on this topic started in the […]
“Metabolic Power takes to the field” is part of a series of webinars held by Cristian Osgnach to go deeper on the workload analysis and the concepts of metabolic power and high-intensity through specific examples on the field. Part 3 Workload monitoring is one of the main goals for a football […]
“Metabolic Power takes to the field” is part of a series of webinars held by Cristian Osgnach to go deeper on the workload analysis and the concepts of metabolic power and high-intensity through specific examples on the field. Part 2 Workload monitoring is one of the main goals for a football fitness coach, keen […]
“Metabolic Power takes to the field” is part of a series of webinars held by Cristian Osgnach to go deeper on the workload analysis and the concepts of metabolic power and high-intensity through specific examples on the field. Part 1 Workload monitoring is one of the main goals for a football fitness coach, keen […]
Test your players without testing them. How to obtain an individual metabolic power profile (MPP) by considering a specific time period of normal training? Metabolic Power Profile In last month’s gpexe webinar, Dr J Cassirame, C. Osgnach and Prof PE di Prampero presented the metabolic power profile for team sports. Here is an extract […]