If you’re paying attention to professional soccer, you’ll have noticed that players are wearing what look to be sports bras both during games and training. It isn’t some new fashion trend. The garments they’re wearing hold a piece of next-level tech — a highly accurate and advanced GPS tracker — that gives coaches and trainers access to data that they previously couldn’t have dreamed of, including speed, distance covered and overall wear and tear on the athlete. Many professional clubs use a system made by Catapult Sports. It stands to reason that there is something to it — beyond simply tracking fitness. With tech from companies like Garmin and Fitbit, virtually anyone can track their fitness — but the Catapult GPS system is like a fitness tracker on steroids.
Training staffs tailor sessions for individual players with specific goals in mind. The Catapult system uses a metric called player load, or overall explosive movement, which is measured by accelerometers. It measures the volume of work. A coach can then look at a player's practice and see how the athletes is expending the most energy. In other words, if it’s the day before a game and you only want your players to train at 50 percent, you can actually see the data and make sure that they adhere to the restriction. Player load can also be used while rehabilitating an injured player. When a player returns after an injury, a coach can look at how often they are exposed to a risk that might re-injure the athlete in real time, and then tell the player to slow down or reduce his work rate to mitigate risks of further injury.
Credits:
https://gearpatrol.com/2016/08/31/catapult-gps-system-soccer/
No comments:
Post a Comment