This package includes the following:

• Monitoring Training and Performance in Athletes ebook
• Online study guide
• Online continuing education exam

The use of performance monitoring systems in athletic training has grown due to technological advances. Practitioners who work with athletes from high school to elite levels in a range of sports use these systems to observe athlete data, including exercise intensity, athletic fitness, and body responses. Monitoring Training and Performance in Athletes is a compilation of evidence-based guidelines and best practices for athlete monitoring. You’ll learn how to implement monitoring systems and collect, analyze, and interpret data that result in training adjustments to optimize performance.

Author Mike McGuigan, an award-winning sport scientist, blends research-based concepts with practical application strategies for monitoring training and performance in athletes. You’ll learn to monitor body stress, biochemical markers, and hormonal responses; find out about reliability of modern methods, such as wearable technology and questionnaires; and understand how to interpret data to modify training programs in real time. You’ll find guidelines, approaches, and solutions for challenges in athlete monitoring for individual and team sports, as well as suggestions for integrating monitoring with coaching.

Real-world examples assist with understanding the cutting-edge, evidence-based research on athlete monitoring. Full-color illustrations and photographs provide a visual interpretation of the information presented. An accompanying study guide helps solidify learning from each chapter.

Monitoring Training and Performance in Athletes is an invaluable guide in managing monitoring systems and adjusting training programs based on the data to help athletes and teams achieve peak performance.

Once you complete the course and pass the exam, you can print a certificate for continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the importance of monitoring athletes
• Apply analysis techniques to investigate individual data
• Describe the physiological effects of training stress
• Identify and implement methods for monitoring training stress
• Explain measures of fitness and fatigue used for athlete monitoring
• Implement a range of technologies in monitoring athletes
• Apply science to the art of coaching
• Describe the guidelines, approaches, challenges, and solutions for monitoring athletes

Audience

Certified strength and conditioning, athletic training, and personal training professionals.

Chapter 1. Why Monitor Athletes?
Chapter 2. Research Tools for Athlete Monitoring
Chapter 3. Physiological Effects of Training Stress
Chapter 4. Quantifying Training Stress
Chapter 5. Measures of Fitness and Fatigue
Chapter 6. Current Monitoring Practices and Technologies
Chapter 7. Integrating Monitoring With Coaching
Chapter 8. Athlete Monitoring Guidelines for Individual Sports
Chapter 9. Athlete Monitoring Guidelines for Team Sports

Mike McGuigan, PhD, CSCS, is a professor of strength and conditioning at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in New Zealand and a member of AUT’s Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand. He is one of the world’s leading scientific researchers on athlete monitoring and is highly regarded internationally for his work on resistance training and strength and power development.

Before working at AUT, McGuigan was at Edith Cowan University and the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and worked as a sport scientist for High Performance Sport New Zealand. He also has vast experience as an athlete monitoring consultant for elite athletes and coaches, working with high-profile New Zealand sport teams such as the All Blacks and the Silver Ferns.

McGuigan is a strength and conditioning specialist certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). He received the NSCA’s Outstanding Young Investigator of the Year Award in 2007 and the William J. Kraemer Most Outstanding Sport Scientist Award in 2016. He serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Australian Strength and Conditioning, the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, and the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.