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Monitoring Training and Performance in Athletes
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Why Monitor Athletes?

Stress Response to a Training Session

Adaptation to a Training Program

Risk of Overreaching, Overtraining, Sickness, and Injury

Importance of Individualized Monitoring

Conclusion

Chapter 2. Research Tools for Athlete Monitoring

Basic Statistical Tools for Practitioners

Descriptive Statistics

Reliability

Validity

Meaningful Change

Correlation and Relationships

Presentation of Results

Qualitative Analysis

Conclusion

Chapter 3. Physiological Effects of Training Stress

General Adaptation Syndrome Model

Fitness-Fatigue Model

Stimulus-Fatigue-Recovery-Adaptation Model

Applications of the Models

Fatigue Continuum

Overreaching and Overtraining

Interdisciplinary and Multifactorial Approaches to Avoid Overtraining

Conclusion

Chapter 4. Quantifying Training Stress

Measurement Tools

External Load

Internal Load

Conclusion

Chapter 5. Measures of Fitness and Fatigue

Neuromuscular Fatigue

Heart Rate

Hormonal and Biochemical Markers

Immunological Markers

Performance Tests

Conclusion

Chapter 6. Current Monitoring Practices and Technologies

Monitoring Practices in Sport

Monitoring Technologies

Data from Monitoring Technology

Applications of Monitoring Technology

Conclusion

Chapter 7. Integrating Monitoring With Coaching

Art and Science of Monitoring

Monitoring Data Within a Training Session

Providing Monitoring Feedback to Athletes

Barriers to Effective Athlete Monitoring

Conducting In-House Monitoring Projects

Conclusion

Chapter 8. Athlete Monitoring Guidelines for Individual Sports

Individual Sport Athletes

Monitoring in Individual Sports on a Budget

Monitoring With Training Diaries

Applying Monitoring in Individual Sports

Reporting One Week of Monitoring for an Athlete

Modifying Training Based on Monitoring

Considerations for Monitoring Athletes in Individual Sports

Conclusion

Chapter 9. Athlete Monitoring Guidelines for Team Sports

Team Sport Athletes

Monitoring in Team Sports on a Budget

Applying Monitoring in Team Sports

Monitoring System for Team Sport

Reporting One Week of Monitoring for a Team Sport

Modifying Training Based on Monitoring

Considerations for Monitoring Athletes in Team Sports

Conclusion

About the Author

Mike McGuigan, PhD, CSCS, is a professor of strength and conditioning at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in New Zealand and a member of AUT’s Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand. He is one of the world’s leading scientific researchers on athlete monitoring and is highly regarded internationally for his work on resistance training and strength and power development.

Before working at AUT, McGuigan was at Edith Cowan University and the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and worked as a sport scientist for High Performance Sport New Zealand. He also has vast experience as an athlete monitoring consultant for elite athletes and coaches, working with high-profile New Zealand sport teams such as the All Blacks and the Silver Ferns.

McGuigan is a strength and conditioning specialist certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). He received the NSCA’s Outstanding Young Investigator of the Year Award in 2007 and the William J. Kraemer Most Outstanding Sport Scientist Award in 2016. He serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Australian Strength and Conditioning, the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, and the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.

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