TEAM SPORT GPS WEBINAR

Online Team Sport GPS Webinar is aimed at educating established and aspiring Strength and Conditioning coaches, Sport Scientists and Coaches that are interested in improving their knowledge and application of GPS technology with team sports. There is a particular focus on the GPS application with sub-elite sport in the webinar given this environment is often associated with the most time and resourcing constraints, which in turn can adversely impact GPS utilisation.

The Team Sport GPS Webinar covers the following content:

– GPS Mistakes
– Common GPS utilisation
– Game GPS report examples
– Training GPS report examples
– Pre-season & in-season training periodisation
– Practical application via a team sport case study
– Determination of game demands & implications on training planning
– Attendee Q&A

 

The advent of inexpensive GPS units has resulted in an increase in GPS utilisation at a wide range of sporting clubs, teams, and associations. Ordinarily, access to such technology was limited to elite or professional sporting teams, however by virtue of the above this is not the case anymore. This exclusivity was underpinned by the cost of GPS technology when it was first introduced, which resulted in the early users being elite or high performance sporting teams and associations.

Subsequently, this resulted in the early adoption of GPS technology being limited to Strength and Conditioning Coaches, Sport Scientists and Practitioners that worked in these elite and/or high performance environments. Whilst this was advantageous for those clubs, associations and their associated high performance staff, it resulted in a specific GPS tracking / technology knowledge gap for coaches, scientists and practitioners that were working in sub-elite sporting clubs, youth pathway programs and school sporting systems.

This issue laid dormant and unnoticed for years due to a lack of meaningful access to GPS tracking in these sporting environments, however with the advent of cheaper GPS tracking technology, this lack of GPS knowledge became evident and manifested in Strength and Conditioning Coaches, Sport Scientists and Practitioners fumbling their way through the implementation, application and reporting of GPS tracking. These missteps are underpinned by a reactive approach to GPS tracking in sports, whereas the more skilled and experienced users of the GPS technology focus on a more proactive approach… more on this below.

As such, it is imperative that coaches and practitioners aligned with sub-elite sporting clubs, associations and youth pathway programs within associations and schools have a thorough understanding of the most efficient and effective ways to utilise GPS technology to improve performance, mitigate injury risk, manage training load, and periodise training. These skills are even more important at sub-elite levels of sport where there are significant time and resourcing constraints, which often result in coaches and practitioners having to fulfill a raft or roles and responsibilities.

The latter point is particularly relevant for Strength and Conditioning Coaches, Sport Scientists and Practitioners that aren’t working in an elite or high performance sport setting, which are often in the fortuitus position to have access to a number of high performance staff that are responsible for a wide variety of strength and conditioning and sport science task. One of these tasks is the utilisation of GPS technology, with this specialised role requiring expertise to track, analyse, database and report the GPS data that is being collected on a daily basis.

The opposite is true for Strength and Conditioning Coaches, Sport Scientists and Practitioners that are working in a wide variety of sub-elite sporting environments, such as local and amateur sporting clubs, junior youth pathways and school sporting programs. These environments are generally less resourced, with less staff being one of major differences compared to elite sporting programs. As such, the associated staff members are required to fulfil a multitude of strength and conditioning and sport science tasks, with GPS reporting and analysis an integral task for almost all team sports that are played outdoors (i.e. Australian Rules Football, Soccer, Gaelic sports, Rugby etc).

When time, money and athlete access is a limitation in a sporting setting, it is integral to make the systems, methods and philosophies that underpin the sporting programs as efficient and effective as possible. This is no different when it comes to GPS technology and GPS tracking, and this is underpinned by trying to use the GPS tracking to plan, monitor and periodise your on-field training proactively. That is, use the GPS data to guide running conditioning and technical training loads, periodise pre-season and in-season phases and set very clear objective session targets. This proactive approach enables the retrospective GPS data to be benchmarked and compared to the session targets. This sounds easy and intuitive, but this process is scarcely adhered to in sub-elite sporting environments for a whole host of different reasons.

If the above resonates with you, the Team Sport GPS Webinar is for you. The webinar covers the following content:

– GPS tracking Mistakes
– Common GPS utilisation
– Team sport game GPS report examples
– Team sport training GPS report examples
– Pre-season & in-season training periodisation using GPS tracking
– Practical application of GPS tracking via a team sport case study
– Determination of game demands & implications on training planning using GPS technology
– Q&A

The GPS webinar will show you how to effectively and accurately utilise GPS technology to maximise performance, mitigate injury risk and periodise your training.