TY - JOUR T1 - Training load monitoring in football: application of field systems in professional male players (PhD Academy Award) JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 703 LP - 704 DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2020-102394 VL - 55 IS - 12 AU - Vincenzo Rago Y1 - 2021/06/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/12/703.abstract N2 - As a practitioner involved in player’s monitoring, one of my duties was to establish monitoring practices to inform the coaching and sports medicine departments about the training process. In this context, it is important to quantify training load. My PhD examined through an observational design, whether the coaching-prescribed training load (TL) was confounded by match-related contextual variables (study 1),1 whether heart rate testing during a standardised warm-up could be informative of players’ adaptations to training load (study 2)2 and whether the interpretation of training demands differed according to the training load quantification method adopted (study 3),3 as well as which TL quantification method best reflected the rating of perceived effort (study 4),4 respectively.Recent advances in TL monitoring have helped football coaches and sports medicine departments.5 Players are familiar with wearable TL monitoring technology incorporating global positioning systems, heart rate monitors and rating of perceived effort (RPE) questionnaires, as well as … ER -