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Mauro Testa, Biomechanic at Bologna F.C. 1909 S.p.A.

It is possible to describe our athlete as a chair. We have four legs, each one of them represent the main features that determine the talent. The four legs are: Mechanical or Biomechanical aspects (external load), physiological items (internal load), psychological aspects and technique and tactics items. In this article I would like to show how we record, with an innovative tool, two of these fundamental aspect of our player: biomechanical aspects related to injuries prevention and physiological states related to internal load or muscle load. But reading this article you can discover that,with this new approach, it is possible to record data releted to the others two legs of the simbolic chair.

In the previous two articles we presented Myontec’s muscle fatigue threshold (MFT) analysis and training zones derived from it. Now we will go through how these zones can be used in practise and what benefit they bring.

In the previous article we discussed about theory behind the neuromuscular fatigue and muscle fatigue threshold (MFT). Now we present how easily the threshold can be detected with Myontec’s Mbody products. In addition, we introduce the exercise intensity zones based on MFT.

Myontec Mbody offers solution to detect MFT during standardized exercise tests and based on current scientific literature as well as our own substantial data collection we have developed automatic algorithms for MFT analysis. Therefore, now for the first time, it is possible for athletes and consumers to detect their training threshold noninvasively and use their muscle loading level to classify training intensities. This offers totally new perspectives to training by providing with Training zones based on muscle loading as alternative for zones calculated from Heart rate.