I was thinking to implement some kind of monitoring of immediate training effects next season in volleyball, mostly used to manage microcycle training load to the athlete response, avoid over-training, manage over-reaching if needed and see how much athlete’s capacity is stressed.
What I had on my mind is to do following testing 1-2/wk.
Grips strength - used to monitor excitability of the CNS, strength potential, CNS strain(?)
Vertical Jump - used to monitor explosive excitability
Simple reaction time - To measure eye-hand speed, perceptual fatigue, blah, blah. Averga time plus standard deviation. Can you suggest some machine for this… cheap and simple?
I would plot this against training loads, check the cummulative training effects (via normal testing, like 10m sprint, jump, yoyo) and hopefully make some input-output relationship.
I don’t have OmegaWave, but I was thinking to use this battery for simmilar reason.
I have found the most reliable and convenient results using grip strength. I have tried vertical jump (3 jumps on contact mat), grip strength, and omegawave and grip strength is by far the most practical and also quite valid in my findings.
What device did you use for grip? I would use VJ for cummulative effects evaluation anyway, but I have read somewhere that VJ can tell you about early signs of overtraining syndrome… BTW, what does grip strength actually tells you? ‘Excitability’ of the CNS and CNS strain/fatigue?
Morning HR?
I have read something about HRV, but I guess it is still blur… to much parameters, like high-req, low-freq and stuff… too much time for such a number of players…
There are a host of online reaction testers online. As a former addict of internet speed chess (in which you get anywhere from 10 seconds to 1 minute to make all of your moves), we would occasionally test our reaction time this way.
http://getyourwebsitehere.com/jswb/rttest01.html is one such place to test, though I would make sure you pick one tester and stick with it. Variations in how it is programmed might affect the numbers. To make sure the applet doesn’t include lag time, try it on a modem and on high speed to see if your numbers are the same. If they aren’t, try a different applet.
It’s not correct about HRV, for sport purpose you can use between 3 and 10 parameters.
I use it every day and I find it really useful, just practical experience.
For what it’s worth, back in 07’ I did a independent study in graduate school on various tools to help predict bench press speed and power readiness. 8 American football athletes were used. The tools were: grip dynamometer (left and right hands), subjective questionnaire, tap test (on computer), and standing long jump. These were correlated against accelerometer (tendo unit) peak values against 20-80% (in 5% increments) ranges. After 8 weeks, I finalized the process and in the order of weak—>strong correlation it went:
Tap test, grip isometric strength, standing long jump, subjective questionnaire. The strongest correlation was .37 (which is still weak). The grip test came out to be .18.
The grip tests also did not correlate well with standing long jump performance either. I don’t recall the exact correlation, but it was low.
I would suspect the grip tests would be better suited to gauge readiness with the Olympic lifts and deadlifts due to the intensive grip requirement.
From a cardiac standpoint (not necessarily autonomic), we will look at work rates and corresponding heart rates on an elliptical during the initial part of a warm-up period. i.e. 200 strides / minute elicits normally about 120-125 bpm for a particular athlete.) If they come in after they are tested on the omegawave and their cardiac system is in a state of fatigue, we can see that on the elliptical as well. (again, i.e., 175 strides / minute at 120-125 bpm)
The jump tests on a jump mat correspond well with the resting omega potential (cns), but with a jump test only, you still have to debate whether it’s muscular stress, central nervous system stress, or a combination of both. I suppose you could simply ask them if their muscles are sore?
Jamirok, what specific biocom package do you have? Also, have you compared the RS800+biocom against omegawave outputs?
