Dr. Trent Stellingwerff - Monitoring Athlete Health and Performance

Monitoring and measuring validated metrics around an athletes health and performance helps to give the coach, and IST staff, increased information for informed decision making. Without making measurements, or understanding progress, the coach and athlete will be at a loss to explain successes or failures. However, metrics must be validated or one has the risk of false positives or false negatives.  

This presentation will look at some common and easy health and performance metrics a coach might consider monitoring in track and field athletes, what and how a metric is validated and how to incorporate the information into a YTP.