Browsing the web...an interesting tool!

Browsing on youtube, I found a very interesting movie that advertises a very useful tool; I already used many of these exercises simply using the barbell framed in an angle of the wall (in particular for goalkeeper...I hope to post a movie of these as soon as possible), but this tools seems to be more pratic and safe...very good!

Sure this equipment satisfies the concepts of multiplanar and versatility that I really "support" for the strenght exercises, combining the work out of lower limb with work out of core, trunk and upper limb. 

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Training with elastic band

Regarding the possibility of spend some money for equipment like gps for the assess of internal load, discussed in the previous post, I prefer use the CR100, TQR and VAS scale and spend money for buy fantastic equipment like the elastic band that I suggest to you in this movie.
Are very useful and above all versatile, being able to use in an infinite number of drills stimulating muscles of lower limbs during specific movements of handball like change of direction, brief sprint and jumps. For the continuous traction, these elastic bands permits to work also on hamstring muscles in an eccentric contraction, important thing in a injury prevention program.
Furthermore with these equipment the athletic trainer can express their fantasy!

Obviously the part with ball can be expanded with the partecipation of all the handball team during training.

Internal load

As all we know, the work that athletes make during training or match can be defined in terms of Internal and external load. I don’t dwell on the explanation of these concepts but I would like to spend some words on the evaluation of what really interests us:  the internal load, what we change in the athlete’s organism, his/her individual response to train. The assess of this parameter has been always subjected to several debates, in particular on the use or not of some methodologies: some people use the heart rate analysis, others the blood lactate, the GPS, or others new and expensive technologies like video camera match analysis. First of all I would like to underline the fact that by now the “famous” heart rate frequencies as a perfect index to evaluate the internal load are losing their value in favour of other technologies like GPS, capable of calculating the acceleration of athletes; following the last scientific researches,  the investigation of acceleration seems to give a more exactly parameter to assess the energy consumption (Di Prampero et al.).

After that I would like to bring your attention on the fact that we do not always have expensive technologies like gps (which also not always receive the satellite signal in our sports hall) or telemtry heart rate monitors, thus I think that the best way to assess internal load, validated, cheap and quick is the investigation of perceived exertion.

The Borg’s scale is the most famous scale about the perceived exertion and it has been demonstrated its close relationship with real internal load. I believe that the detection of RPE with the CR10 or CR100 scale is convenient to modulate and monitor training sessions and matches, to have always an index about what our players are doing, to calculate in this way the training load.

Personally with the CR100 scale I also use the TQR scale for the assess of the recovery and the VAS scale for muscle soreness evaluation, administering these to my athletes in a fast, cheap and simple way. Obviously, to have true data, the administration parameters of the scales validated in the scientific studies on this topic must respect and overall use the paper format and character of write used in this studies, otherwise the method loses its efficacy.

In conclusion, in my opinion, it is better to return to the old pen and paper rather than having millions of data given by an expensive technology that probably isn’t so precise respect its cost.

I invite you to express opinions on this subject

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What is it?

Hi everybody, I'm Matteo Corvino, team sports athletic trainer specialized in handball and soccer. You're probably asking about the reason of a specific blog on athletic training in handball, or perhaps not, or maybe you're thinking: "interesting "!!...or maybe not! However is it clear that the aim of this blog is spread useful information for coaches and athletic trainer of this fantastic sport.
This blog has not been done to teach other, in a presumption way, but just want to be a way to share knowledge learned on the handball fields and especially in university envoironment, and maybe get advices and opinions from other experts of this sector...to create a kind of exchange within this small comunity of "handball sick"!
Why especially university envoironment? because after having completed my 5 years of studies in Rome, I decided to undertake a PhD in Slovenia, at the faculty of Sport of University of Ljubljana. Here there is a specific scinetific laboratory on handball.
After this brief introduction of myself and my purpose, I leave you and I invite you to the first post of this new, and I hope interesting, portal of comparison for who want to discuss about handball.


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Matteo Corvino