Robin Thorpe

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...