ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2009
The quantification of training load, the training response and the effect on performance.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 191 papers, 15 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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191 citing papers in PubMed, 15 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Correlations Between Training Load Parameters and Physical Performance Adaptations in Team Sports: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
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- The Role of Biomarkers in Monitoring Chronic Fatigue Among Male Professional Team Athletes: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of blood flow restriction training on physical fitness among athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- Meta-analyses of the effects of high-intensity interval training in elite athletes-part I: mean effects on various performance measures.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Pooled it
- Relationships between External, Wearable Sensor-Based, and Internal Parameters: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Pooled it
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- Internal Training Load Perceived by Athletes and Planned by Coaches: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2022Pooled it
- Monitoring Accumulated Training and Match Load in Football: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Load Measures in Training/Match Monitoring in Soccer: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Global Positioning System-Derived Workload Metrics and Injury Risk in Team-Based Field Sports: A Systematic Review.Journal of athletic training · 2020Pooled it
- Relationships Between Training Load Indicators and Training Outcomes in Professional Soccer.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Pooled it
- Risk Factors for Injuries During Military Static-Line Airborne Operations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of athletic training · 2016Pooled it
- Monitoring Workload in Throwing-Dominant Sports: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2016Pooled it
- Monitoring Athletic Training Status Through Autonomic Heart Rate Regulation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2016Pooled it
- Recovery of Linear and Nonlinear Heart Rate Variability Metrics After Short-Term Moderate versus Vigorous Intensity Exercise: A Cross-Sectional Randomized Cross-Over Study.European journal of sport science · 2025Trial
- Efficacy of Individualized Sensory-Based mHealth Interventions to Improve Distress Coping in Healthcare Professionals: A Multi-Arm Parallel-Group Randomized Controlled Trial.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Trial
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- Handcycling: training effects of a specific dose of upper body endurance training in females.European journal of applied physiology · 2016Trial
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Abstract
Historically, the ability of coaches to prescribe training to achieve optimal athletic performance can be attributed to many years of personal experience. A more modern approach is to adopt scientific methods in the development of optimal training programmes. However, there is not much research in this area, particularly into the quantification of training programmes and their effects on physiological adaptation and subsequent performance. Several methods have been used to quantify training load, including questionnaires, diaries, physiological monitoring and direct observation. More recently, indices of training stress have been proposed, including the training impulse, which uses heart rate measurements and training load, and session rating of perceived exertion measurements, which utilizes subjective perception of effort scores and duration of exercise. Although physiological adaptations to training are well documented, their influence on performance has not been accurately quantified. To date, no single physiological marker has been identified that can measure the fitness and fatigue responses to exercise or accurately predict performance. Models attempting to quantify the relationship between training and performance have been proposed, many of which consider the athlete as a system in which the training load is the input and performance the system output. Although attractive in concept, the accuracy of these theoretical models has proven poor. A possible reason may be the absence of a measure of individuality in each athlete's response to training. Thus, in the future more attention should be directed towards measurements that reflect individual capacity to respond or adapt to exercise training rather than an absolute measure of changes in physiological variables that occur with training.
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