Individualizing Training Procedures with Wearable Technology

This book gives evidence-based background information and advice to athletes and coaches on if and how data from wearable technologies can be applied for preparing individual training procedures to achieve improvement on aspects of performance and health.

Sports practitioners frequently make decisions on long-term training planning and daily choices on different aspects of training, recovery and therapeutic procedures. Such decisions are essential to gain optimal performance enhancement, reduce likelihood of injuries and to reach peak performance. These decisions are complexed by the fact that there is no "blue-print" training procedure applicable to all athletes, and individual characteristics need to be considered to improve training procedures. 

With rapid technological advancements, data from Wearable Technologies is becoming increasingly available and potentially can aid athletes and coaches to individualize and optimize training procedures. Finally, the book explores if and how data can deliver actionable insights to inform long-term and day-to-day decision making to individualize training procedure.

Sensor data to individualize athlete training through data-informed decision making.- How sensor data can capture recovery: The case for heart rate variability.- How sensor data can guide intensity in resistance training procedures.-    A primer on wearable technology for injury risk management in distance running.- Using wearable devices to guide sleep behaviors in athletes.- How Sensor data can guide females through training and recovery according to their menstrual cycle.- How soccer coaches can use data to better develop their players and be more successful.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Peter Düking serves as professor for exercise and training at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He earned his PhD at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg and his Master of Science degrees from the German Sports University Cologne and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Peter primarily focuses his research on exercise and training procedures of different populations. He investigates if and how technology can support in individualizing exercise and training procedures for different populations in order to improve aspects of performance and health. 

Prof. Dr. Billy Sperlich has been a professor at Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg since 2013 and currently serves as the Head of the Chair for Integrative & Experimental Training and Exercise Science. He has a strong background as a researcher and lecturer at various institutes within the German Sport University in Cologne from 2002 to 2010. Billycompleted post-doctoral studies and a guest professorship at Mid Sweden University in Östersund. In 2013, he founded the educational platform sportsandscience.de and has since made notable contributions to the field. He served as the Speaker of the Exercise Science Section of the German Association of Sports Science from 2018 to 2022 and is a member of the German Fitness Science Council. His primary research focuses on training methods and analysis to enhance health and performance.