Matt Thome
ALTIS Performance and Innovation Manager
Monitoring Training Load in Elite Sprinters: A Brief Outline, Overview and Direction
Training load monitoring has been common practice in endurance and team sports for quite some time (Foster, 2001). The terms external and internal load have been used to describe the two primary ways in which training load is categorized (Impellizzeri, 2019). The external load is the physical work that the athlete performs – not necessarily what was prescribed by the...
The Hamstring Problem
In the sports performance industry we’ve become infatuated with technology. While there’s no doubt that technology can be a valuable resource, any tool is only as useful as its application. It was nearly a decade ago when we saw a large upswing in the use of technology in sport. At that time, it was all about getting the next new...
Thinking Scientifically
The ALTIS living lab The primary aim of the ALTIS Living Lab is to improve the integration of science with practice in sport performance environments. We understand that the results of our work will not always be generalizable to the broader population of athletes, beyond the elite level. Thus, it is a secondary goal of ours to help coaches create...