Training Load Monitoring
QUANTER'S TRAINING LOAD CONCEPT
EVENT TL: A FUNCTION OF TWO VARIABLES
Rate of Perceived Exertion
(RPE 0-10)
Activity Duration (minutes)
Session Rate of Perceived Exertion (sRPE)
Training Load (sRPE) describes the overall mental and physical fatigue experienced by a player/team.
Researched extensively in team sports (e.g. Tim Gabbett, Carl Foster, and Anna Saw) it has a strong scientific backing.
sRPE methods are now in practice across the elite sports industry, from English Premier League clubs to National Olympic Committees.
Training Load With Quanter
Understand the overall fatiguing effect of training/matches on your players.
Make realtime, flexible, and player-specific adjustments in your coaching.
Enhance your ability to reduce injury/illness risk and reach training goals
COLLECTION
Quanter automatically collects data on the players' experiences of training/match loadings.
Training Load Query - sent to players after every team event
Report Activity - used after events outside the team
ANALYSIS
Quanter places these values into the context of team- and individual-specific historical data.
CLASSIFICATION
Quanter classifies the overall impact of each event, day, and week, as well as the risk associated with the relative rate of change in loads.
PRESCRIPTION
Coaches: Quanter immediately visualises the fatigue status of your players and team, supporting you in coaching decisions on and off the field.
Players: Quanter enables your coach to tailor training programmes to your needs, and helps you plan your own training and recovery activities
The Training Load Query & Report Activity
Quanter automatically collects Training Load data through the Training Load Query, sent to attending players after every training session and match.
Players can also complete their dataset by reporting events not on the team schedule, helping their coaches to react to the impact of events outside the team environment (e.g. personal training, regional/national team events).
Rate Of Perceived Exertion
RPE is a subjective measure of the overall sensation of fatigue (physical/mental) that a player perceives about an event.
Players input their RPE on a 0-10 scale, which Quanter combines with the Activity Duration to produce the TL values.
Health-Related Symptoms
Players also report whether they have suffered from any pain (and where)
Or if they had any decreases in their general wellbeing (and what kind)
The Post-Event Confirmation
Coaches confirm the Activity Duration.
Training Load (sRPE) = RPE x Activity Duration
--> So it is important to record accurate timings.
Data Visualisation & Decisions
Quanter’s colour-coded classification model for Training Load allows coaches and players to immediately assess the impact of training/matches on the team or individual, and adapt training programmes accordingly.
Easy
Normal
Overload
Extreme Overload
Immediate Feedback
After players complete the Query, Quanter provides them with immediate feedback, showing the Training Load for that event in the context of daily Training Loads and Readiness scores over the last 7 days.
Quanter also recommends whether the player should carry out some extra recovery activities.
Individual
Players can follow their loading patterns during key timeframes:
Event & Daily
Event Training Loads over a 14-day period
Weekly
Broad loading picture of Weekly Training Loads and Strain (based on the variation in loads)
Acute : Chronic
The risk of injury/illness associated with the ratio of loadings in the last 7:30 days.
Team
Coaches can see the Individual profiles of all of their players as well as the Team dashboards:
Two-Week Box-Plot
Provides a snapshot of the team’s recent loading patterns, on each day showing from top to bottom all the daily Training Load values centred on middle 50% of players
Risk Lists
Players who have recently experienced exceptionally high loadings.
Team View
Event, Daily, Weekly, Monotony, Strain, Acute:Chronic