THE MOST MATHEMATICAL OF SPORTS?
At the Barca Sports Technology Symposium, I had the honour of chairing a session about taking data into the field in sports.
At the Barca Sports Technology Symposium, I had the honour of chairing a session about taking data into the field in sports.
The goal for training is to help players be best prepared for competing.
Globalization –the process driven by the increase in cross-border flows of goods, services, money, people, information and culture1- has dramatically affected western societies and football is not isolated from this phenomenon.
Science has changed training in team sports by modifying many routines and preparations. The quantification of everything which takes place in a training session is one of the goals for the staff.
The long inactivity due to the forced quarantine has taken a long time to be accepted by all of the economic sectors.
Physical trainer Lluis Cortés and his physical trainers, Berta Carles and Jacob González have organised training sessions as if they were a competition for as long as this break lasts.
How can we keep healthy during isolation? There are a lot of small activities we can do in order to promote salutogenesis.
The quarantine necessary to flatten the pandemic curve has completely changed the training and competition dynamics of athletes and clubs, which suddenly have had to modify their usual training.
The ischiosural muscles are one of the most common groups of muscles to get injured, especially in sports which involve changes of direction and speed.
Drones have the capacity to fly over the pitch and record training sessions, to obtain an aerial view that is especially useful to evaluate performance.