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Breaking Down the Brakes: Mechanical Demands Across Successive Contacts During Maximal 5-m Deceleration
🏃♂️➡️🫷🛑 Which foot contact does the hardest braking work when an athlete stops? Sideris V, Marques J,...
What gets measured gets managed: biomechanical and on-field measurement in athletic groin pain.
Buchheit M, Heiderscheit B, Kotsifaki R. What gets measured gets managed: biomechanical and on-field measurement in athletic...
Environmental associations with heart-rate responses during field-based submaximal fitness testing in female football players: an exploratory multi-centre study
Shushan T, Lovell R, McLaren SJ, Buchheit M. Environmental associations with heart-rate responses during field-based submaximal fitness...
Post-match rest day placement and the shape of the week: external load distribution and injury occurrence in two elite football teams.
Lekatsas N, Buchheit M, Kekelekis A, Kellis E. Post-match rest day placement and the shape of the week: external load distribution and injury...
Inter-limb low-frequency fatigue tracks the distribution of training dose rather than the underlying deficit: a case report from a five-week strength camp in an elite youth footballer
Krótki-Borowicki P, Quiroga B, Hijano J, Siedlecki H, Guerra J, Buchheit M. Inter-limb low-frequency fatigue tracks the distribution of training dose rather than...
If artificial intelligence is writing your report, why are you required?
Malone S, Buchheit M. If artificial intelligence is writing your report, why are you required? Defending the CRAFT of performance support in the...
Hitting the metrics, missing the angles: closing the directional gap in run-based compensatory training
López Sagarra A, Barba Balda E, Carruthers T, Granero Gil P, Buchheit M. Hitting the metrics, missing the angles: closing the directional gap...
Jump Height Lies: Force–Time CMJ Metrics Reveal Hidden Neuromuscular Responses in Elite Football
🦘⚽️ Your player jumped the same height as last week. All good? Joao Marques, Vasileios Sideris, FELIPE RABELO, Thiago Santi, Lucas Marques, Martin...
From Rule of Thumb to Mechanistic Formula: An AI-Assisted Model for Individualizing Shuttle Run Distance in HIIT
Buchheit M, Lopez Sagarra A, Ogden A and Houben C. From Rule of Thumb to Mechanistic Formula: An AI-Assisted Model for Individualizing the...
Monitoring low-frequency fatigue during return-to-play in elite football: physiological basis and a four-case series
Buchheit M, Barba Balda E, Lopez Sagarra A, Carruthers T, Ogden A, Marques J, Hader K, Millet GY. Monitoring low-frequency fatigue during return-to-play...
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GPS 3.0: from distance into zones toward better proxies of internal neuromuscular load in elite football
Buchheit M, Lopez Sagarra A, Boskovic A, Komino P, Norman D, Hader K. GPS 3.0: from distance into zones toward better proxies of internal neuromuscular load in elite...
The Jurdan Sprint Table Test using smartphone video analysis: reliability and use in an elite football team
Buchheit M, Sandua M, Orriols G, Lemaire B, Delafosse F, Semezak C, Bernard B, Cuvelier M, Monnot D, Volante J. The Jurdan Sprint Table Test using smartphone video...
Slaves to (GPS) norms
Little T. and Buchheit M. Slaves to (GPS) norms. Sport Perf & Science Reports, #274, Dec 2025. Full Text 🛑 Isn't Load Management Killing Performance? We’ve traded coaching...
Revisiting dose–response relationships between heart rate zones, TRIMPs, and aerobic-related physiological and performance markers in elite team sports
Buchheit M, Akubat I, Ellis M, Campos M, Rabbani A, Castagna C, Malone S. Revisiting dose–response relationships between heart rate zones, TRIMPs, and aerobic-related physiological and performance markers...
Maximizing the submaximal: 20 years of monitoring cardiovascular adaptation through submaximal HR response in team sports
Buchheit M, Shushan T, Barrett S, Scott TJ, Altmann S, Rabbani A, Mandorino M, Lacome M, Rovell R, McLaren SJ. Maximizing the submaximal: 20 years of monitoring cardiovascular...
Dose–Response Associations Between Heart Rate–Derived Load Measures and Changes in High-Intensity Intermittent Performance in Gaelic Football
Malone S & Buchheit M. Dose–Response Associations Between Heart Rate–Derived Load Measures and Changes in High-Intensity Intermittent Performance in Gaelic Football: Time to respect the physiological profile of...
Peak Performance Podcast – Episode 8
️ Just out (well… recorded back in November and late in the evening after a long day at Aspetar سبيتار!) — my chat with the legend Alex Calder...
Data everywhere, insight nowhere: a practical quadrant-based model for monitoring training load vs. response in elite football
Buchheit M & Hader K. Data everywhere, insight nowhere: a practical quadrant-based model for monitoring training load vs. response in elite football. Sport Performance & Science Report, #258,...
Deceleration profiles of elite American soccer players obtained from change of direction tests with different approach speeds
Norman, D., Oliva-Lozano, J. M., Buchheit, M., Fell, S., & Harper, D. (2025). Deceleration profiles of elite American soccer players obtained from change of direction tests with different...
Time to drop running as a KPI in elite football: football fitness and freshness as match-day preconditions
Mandorino M, Lacome M, Verheijen R, Buchheit M. Time to drop running as a KPI in elite football: football fitness and freshness as match-day preconditions. Sport Performance &...