“I never stop learning in sport, and neither do I want to, because I want to stay associated to it for the rest of my life”
Barça Innovation Hub’s Sports Tomorrow event has been opened by Pau Gasol.
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.
One of the most common debates among sports agents dedicated to talent training has to do with the convenience of young athletes’ early specialisation.
Players’ beliefs may clash with scientific evidence that often supports coaching staff intervention routines.
Athletes often face adverse weather conditions in their competitions. One of the most worrying factors for coaches and athletes is heat.
Monitoring and quantifying the plethora of internal and external factors associated with performance allows us to better understand training adaptations and, based on these, make adjustments of the players’ condition.
Applying network theory to football is simply one more method to obtain additional information about a football match.