Small-Sided Games in elite soccer: Does one size fits all?
Lacome M., B.M. Simpson, Y. Cholley, P. Lambert, and M Buchheit. Small-Sided Games in elite soccer: Does one size fits all? IJSPP, In press 2017. Full Text here...
Football/Soccer
Want to see my report, coach?
In this new paper I merged and developed a bit further the 2 IJSPP papers on 1) the stats that changed my life and 2) some personal thoughts...
Does beetroot juice really improve sprint and high-intensity running performance? – probably not as much as it seems: how (poor) stats can help to tell a nice story
Full text here A few tweets, re-tweets and emails from colleagues have caught my attention within the last 24 hrs, all pointing toward a new study showing improvements...
The influence of changes in acute training load on daily sensitivity of morning-measured fatigue variables in elite soccer players
Thorpe RT, Strudwick AJ, Buchheit M, Atkinson G, Drust B, Gregson W. The influence of changes in acute training load on daily sensitivity of morning-measured fatigue variables in...
Player tracking technology: half-full or half-empty glass?
Buchheit M & Simpson BM. Player tracking technology: half-full or half-empty glass? IJSPP, In press This paper summarizes the main points of my talk in Aspire last year...
Metabolic power: powerful enough to drive Ferraris?
After many requests following my talk in Aspire last year (Monitoring Load conference, Doha, Qatar, 2016) where I takled the metabolic power concept, I have just put together...
Applying the acute:chronic workload ratio in elite football: worth the effort?
Buchheit M. Applying the acute:chronic workload ratio in elite football: worth the effort? Br J Sports Med. 2017 Sep;51(18):1325-1327. Full text here The use of the acute:chronic workload...
Ground travel-induced impairment in wellness is associated with fitness and travel distance in young soccer players
Rabbani, Alireza and Buchheit Martin. Ground travel-induced impairment in wellness is associated with fitness and travel distance in young soccer players. Kinesiology, In press. Full text here Abstract...
Quantification of training load during return to play following upper and lower body injury in Australian Rules Football
Ritchie D, Hopkins WG, Buchheit M, Cordy J, & Bartlett JD. Quantification of training load following upper and lower body injury in Australian Rules Football. IJSPP, in Press....
Player Tracking with Technology – what if we were all wrong?
I discussed the pros and cons of the different tracking technologies, meaningfulness of some selected variables, limitations of metabolic power and future areas of interest including accelerometer-related data....