The evolution of elite sport has meant that players undertake high competitive loads caused by schedules packed with extremely demanding matches and practically no rest periods between them.
To schedule and prescribe training throughout the season, we need to know the physical demands that occur during competition as accurately as possible, so that exercises can be set that prepare the players to withstand real game situations.
What if a maximum demand scenario doesn’t only happen once but several times? Straight after asking ourselves the question, we started turning it around in our heads.
The warm-up plays an important role in exercise by improving the performance and reducing the injury risk.
Children need physical activity every day. Exercise leads to improved physical and emotional health.
Barça Innovation Hub’s Sports Tomorrow event has been opened by Pau Gasol.
It is important to assure a correct recovery between training sessions and even between the different exercises of the same session to maximize adaptations to training.
The Mexico 1968 Olympic Games represented a turning point in altitude training. Due to the dominance of athletes acclimatised to the altitude during the Games (they were held at an altitude of 2,340 m),1 in the 1970s, the implications of training or living in hypoxic conditions to improve performance started to be studied.
A training programme planning includes the handling of variables such as exercise selection, training volume and intensity, movement speed, rest interval or the duration of a repetition.
Possibly, the most important goal in training is helping the players to develop skills and behaviours to improve their performance during competition.