Are you in Canada? Click here to proceed to the HK Canada website.

For all other locations, click here to continue to the HK US website.

Human Kinetics Logo

Purchase Digital Products

If you are looking to purchase an eBook, online video, or online courses please press continue


Booktopia Logo

Purchase Print Products

Human Kinetics print books are now distributed by Booktopia Publisher Services throughout Australia/NZ, delivered to you from their NSW warehouse. Please visit Booktopia to order your Human Kinetics print books.

Human Kinetics Logo

Purchase Courses or Access Digital Products

If you are looking to purchase online videos, online courses or to access previously purchased digital products please press continue.


Mare Nostrum Logo

Purchase Print Products or eBooks

Human Kinetics print books and eBooks are now distributed by Mare Nostrum, throughout the UK, Europe, Africa and Middle East, delivered to you from their warehouse. Please visit our new UK website to purchase Human Kinetics printed or eBooks.

Feedback IconFeedback
Monitoring Training and Performance in Athletes

Monitoring Training and Performance in Athletes

Author:
$54.00 USD

 

Product Format

    The use of athlete and team training and performance monitoring systems has grown due to technology advances. Practitioners who work with athletes from high school to elite levels in a range of sports use these systems to observe athlete data, including exercise intensity, athletic fitness, and body responses. Monitoring Training and Performance in Athletes is a compilation of evidence-based guidelines and best practices of athlete monitoring for practitioners, who are increasingly being asked to implement monitoring systems and to collect, analyze, and interpret data that ultimately result in training adjustments to optimize performance.

    Author Mike McGuigan, an award-winning sport scientist, blends research-based concepts with practical application strategies of monitoring training and performance in athletes. The content highlights what can be monitored, such as body stress, biochemical markers, and hormonal response; discusses reliability of modern methods, such as wearable technology and questionnaires; and helps readers understand how to interpret data to modify training programs in real time. Readers will find guidelines, approaches, and solutions for challenges in athlete monitoring for individual and team sports as well as suggestions for integrating monitoring with coaching.

    Numerous sidebars in the text provide real-world examples and application of the content to assist readers in understanding concepts and the cutting-edge, evidence-based research on athlete monitoring. Additionally, the full-color illustrations and photographs provide a visual interpretation of the information presented.

    With broad international appeal, this text outlines the most pertinent evidence-based research concepts and studies on athlete monitoring. Strength and conditioning, athletic training, and personal training professionals who work with athletes and monitor training programs will find Monitoring Training and Performance in Athletes an invaluable guide in managing monitoring systems and making adjustments in training programs based on the data to help athletes and teams achieve peak performance.

    Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education course and exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes all the course materials and exam.

    Audience

    Applied guide for strength and conditioning, athletic training, and personal training professionals and coaches who work with athletes and monitor training programs; professional reference for researchers and sport scientists studying athlete-monitoring practices and technologies.

    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

    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.

    Customer Reviews

    No reviews yet
    0%
    (0)
    0%
    (0)
    0%
    (0)
    0%
    (0)
    0%
    (0)