Debunking the myths about training load, injury and performance: empirical evidence, hot topics and recommendations for practitioners

TJ Gabbett - British journal of sports medicine, 2020 - bjsm.bmj.com
A substantial amount of research has tested the relationship between training load and
injury. 1 Given that sports injuries compromise team success, 2 3 team administrators …

Optimising the late-stage rehabilitation and return-to-sport training and testing process after ACL reconstruction

M Buckthorpe - Sports Medicine, 2019 - Springer
Despite increased knowledge on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury mechanisms,
improved surgical techniques, improved understanding of ACL biomechanics and enhanced …

The relationship between training load and injury in athletes: a systematic review

TG Eckard, DA Padua, DW Hearn, BS Pexa, BS Frank - Sports medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background The relationship between training load and musculoskeletal injury is a rapidly
advancing area of research in need of an updated systematic review. Objective This …

Training load and its role in injury prevention, part I: back to the future

FM Impellizzeri, P Menaspà, AJ Coutts… - Journal of athletic …, 2020 - meridian.allenpress.com
The purpose of this 2-part commentary series is† to explain why we believe our ability to
control injury risk by manipulating training load (TL) in its current state is an illusion and why …

The association between the acute: chronic workload ratio and injury and its application in team sports: a systematic review

A Griffin, IC Kenny, TM Comyns, M Lyons - Sports Medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background There has been a recent increase in research examining training load as a
method of mitigating injury risk due to its known detrimental effects on player welfare and …

[HTML][HTML] Dose–response matters!–a perspective on the exercise prescription in exercise–cognition research

F Herold, P Müller, T Gronwald, NG Müller - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In general, it is well recognized that both acute physical exercises and regular physical
training influence brain plasticity and cognitive functions positively. However, growing …

Handball load and shoulder injury rate: a 31-week cohort study of 679 elite youth handball players

M Møller, RO Nielsen, J Attermann… - British journal of sports …, 2017 - bjsm.bmj.com
Background Knowledge of injury patterns, an essential step towards injury prevention, is
lacking in youth handball. Aim To investigate if an increase in handball load is associated …

Heart rate monitoring in team sports—a conceptual framework for contextualizing heart rate measures for training and recovery prescription

C Schneider, F Hanakam, T Wiewelhove… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
A comprehensive monitoring of fitness, fatigue, and performance is crucial for understanding
an athlete's individual responses to training to optimize the scheduling of training and …

[HTML][HTML] Misuse of the term 'load'in sport and exercise science

CA Staunton, G Abt, D Weaving… - Journal of science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Despite the International System of Units (SI), as well as several publications
guiding researchers on correct use of terminology, there continues to be widespread misuse …

Calculating acute: chronic workload ratios using exponentially weighted moving averages provides a more sensitive indicator of injury likelihood than rolling averages

NB Murray, TJ Gabbett, AD Townshend… - British Journal of Sports …, 2017 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objective To determine if any differences exist between the rolling averages and
exponentially weighted moving averages (EWMA) models of acute: chronic workload ratio …