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The importance of data in the business field is no longer a secret. However, recently, data has become a crucial aspect for sports, as well. In rugby, for instance, it helps teams in recruiting players, forecasting injuries before they occur and even deciding on the game tactics.
In recent times, the use of data, statistics and analytics has flooded the sports environment, with more and more professional sports teams adopting data analysis to measure their performance. This trend has been ascending continuously since the launch of the much debated Moneyball, by Michael Lewis, which covered the deployment of statistical analysis in baseball.
Given the recent Winter Olympics sports competition, a discussion about performance management and sport federations is proposed in the following article. This topic has been addressed by a series of studies, conducted by Winand and Zintz, along with colleagues Bayle, Robinson and Scheerder. In the first study, conducted in 2010, they raised the issue of the necessity of implementing measurement strategies and protocols for enhancing the organizational success of the Chairs of 13 Olympic sports governing bodies.
What is measured, gets improved. But how can this principle be applied in the sports/fitness industry? The answer would be by using a special software meant to help you monitor, analyze and plan your training and nutrition. But would it be efficient or just ‘something extra on your mind’? Let us take a look at it.
Trail running differs from road running and track running, being a sport which consists of running and hiking long distances over trails, especially in mountainous terrain, implying a lot of ascends and descends.
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