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Monitoring Neuromuscular Fatigue In High Performance Athletes, Kristie-Lee Taylor
Monitoring Neuromuscular Fatigue In High Performance Athletes, Kristie-Lee Taylor
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
With improving professionalism of sports around the world, the volume and frequency of training required for competitive performances at the elite level has increased concurrently. With this amplification in training load comes an increased need to closely monitor the associated fatigue responses, since maximising the adaptive response to training is also reliant on avoiding the negative consequences of excessive fatigue. The rationale for the experimental chapters in this thesis was established after considering survey responses regarding current best practice for monitoring fatigue in high performance sporting environments (Chapter 3). On the basis of the results, vertical jump assessments were selected …