The Sport Scientist and load monitoring through EPTS in team sports

Resumen

The evolution in cargo monitoring processes is advancing at dizzying rates. The evolution of sport as an industry has conditioned training theories and has led to a notable change in aspects as basic as load prescription.

Thanks to EPTS and other types of technologies, we increasingly know more about the athlete. Furthermore, this has led to the emergence of a scientific perspective within the coaching staff in team sports. However, many doubts arise in a new stage of introducing this technology into daily work. Load monitoring gradually stops being a task of the physical trainer and becomes another task of the Sport Scientist.

The future of this figure within the staff will probably be determined by the ability to improve the analysis of each athlete's response to the training stimulus both internally (internal load) and externally (external load) since the relationship between load, sports performance and injury prevention is very narrow. However, we cannot forget that technology continues to advance and new load monitoring formats may appear. Without a doubt, one of the objectives of the sports industry will be to develop lighter, smaller and less invasive EPTS  that can also be applied to different contexts.