This is John Grace's slidedeck from the Proformance High Performance Athletic Development Clinic at Athletic Lab. This slidedeck presents ideas on athlete monitoring for coaches and teams that have a low budget or no budget for technology.

1. ATHLETE MONITORING
ON A BUDGET
JOHN GRACE, MS
@john_r_grace

2. GENERAL CONCEPTS

3. GENERAL CONCEPTS
LOW COST METHODS

4. GENERAL CONCEPTS
LOW COST METHODS
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

5. GENERAL CONCEPTS
LOW COST METHODS
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
WRAP UP

6. WHY

7. train hard.
it’s difficult measure stress if there is none.

8. what do I want to know?
how will I use this information to direct training?

9. LOAD
internal
the relative physiological and psychological stress an
athlete incurs from training.
the amount of work the athlete did
quantitatively.
external

11. DATA
subjective
the psychological or physiological perception of the
athlete’s stress
measurable by observation or
testing.
objective

12. internal
external
subjectiveobjective
heart rate variability
heart rate load
resting heart rate
blood lactate
wellness survey
session rpe
coach’s assessment
gps
velocity based training
session duration
daily vertical jump

13. internal
external
subjectiveobjective
heart rate variability
heart rate load
resting heart rate
blood lactate
wellness survey
session rpe
coach’s assessment
gps
velocity based training
session duration
daily vertical jump

14. unfortunately,
a pen and
paper isn’t
sexy.

15. PRE-SESSION
MONITORING

16. WELLNESS SURVEYS

19. sleep is one of the most inexpensive
means of reducing risk of injury and
improving performance.

20. • select valid survey that fits what you want to
know
• ~1 minute per athlete
• how will you administer – compliance?
SURVEY CONSIDERATIONS

21. HEART RATE VARIABILITY

22. HRV CONSIDERATIONS
• performing the test
• test protocol
• compliance
• cost

24. POST-SESSION
MONITORING

25. • session duration x rpe
• view of external objective and internal subjective
• scaling training load units
TRAINING LOAD

26. SCALING UNITS
>1050
926-1050
801-925
676-800
551-675
426-550
301-425
176-300
51-175
<50
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Mike Young, 2013

27. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

28. • creating a readiness score
• weighting scores & rolling averages
• presenting data to coaching staff
• making data actionable

29. l o o k i n g a t a n y o n e d a y o f m o n i t o r i n g
i s l i k e l o o k i n g a t a j u s t a f e w o f p i x e l s
o u t o f a n e n t i r e p h o t o .

30. • creating relative baselines
• see individual trends
• make meaningful changes to training
• more information on what works and what doesn’t
BENEFITS OF LONG TERM
COLLECTION

31. 1 day

32. 1 week

33. 2 weeks

34. 1 month

35. don’t be this guy…

36. figure out what you want to know
select tools that fit your team
valid + valid + valid = valid?
And...

37. a thlete monitoring isn’t about
the equipment, it’s about
collecting meaningful metrics
and making it actionable.

38. THANKS
john.grace@athleticlab.com
@john_r_grace