Comparison of non-invasive individual monitoring of the training and health of athletes with commercially available wearable technologies
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10612Dato
2016-03-09Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
Sammendrag
Athletes adapt their training daily to optimize performance, as well as avoid fatigue,
overtraining and other undesirable effects on their health. To optimize training load, each athlete
must take his/her own personal objective and subjective characteristics into consideration and an
increasing number of wearable technologies (wearables) provide convenient monitoring of various
parameters. Accordingly, it is important to help athletes decide which parameters are of primary
interest and which wearables can monitor these parameters most effectively. Here, we discuss the
wearable technologies available for non-invasive monitoring of various parameters concerning an
athlete’s training and health. On the basis of these considerations, we suggest directions for
future development. Furthermore, we propose that a combination of several wearables is most
effective for accessing all relevant parameters, disturbing the athlete as little as possible,
and optimizing performance and promoting health.
Beskrivelse
Published version. Source at https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2016.00071