Internal Vs External Load - Webinar Part 1

Doctor McGregor (Steve) is a Professor of Exercise Science at Eastern Michigan University and is a leading expert in the area of the use of sensors to monitor and manage sports performance. He has been a leading researcher and practitioner in the use of sensors and their application with athletes for over 25 years and has advised/coached numerous World Champions and Olympians including multiple Olympic medalists. He was a pioneer in the use of GPS to monitor and manage running performance and later added accelerometry to the arsenal of tools he applied to monitor performance in all sports. In team sports, he has advised teams in the NFL, NCAA basketball and hockey. Specific to hockey, within the context of his 3-year research project, “Leveraging technology to enhance player safety and enhance player development in US Ice Hockey”, he accumulated over 20,000 individual sessions including accelerometer and heart rate data for teams ranging from Squirt Tier 2 up to National Team Development Program (NTDP) U18 teams. Outside of research, with his software product, ACHIEVE, he advises/manages sensor analytics for teams at the USHL, National Team and college levels.

Over the next few weeks, Dr. McGregor is going to be sharing some of the latest findings and applications of sensor data in the hockey world. But first, we have to lay the foundation. In this webinar, Dr. McGregor overviews the differences between internal and external load, and why one might be more useful for evaluating and enhancing performance than the other. 

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As Dr. McGregor mentions, this webinar doesn't go over the latest findings or applications, but it brings us into the world of sensor analytics, and that starts with what exactly are we sensing?