Tom Batchelor (Harlequins Rugby Head of Sport Science)

acute to chronic workload gps gps player data load management loading Apr 28, 2024

Episode 22: Andy McDonald speaks to Tom Batchelor the Head of Sport Science at Harlequins Rugby. In this episode Andy and Tom discuss:

Tom’s background
- Working within the City in Equity Derivatives
- Surrey Sports Park – Internship
- Harlequins
GPS In Rugby: Benefits and weaknesses of GPS in Rugby
Overlaying technical and tactical information on top of physical data
How Harlequins define and communicate load
Acute Chronic Workload Ratio
Communicating systems to Inform change
Loading Blindspots
Conditioning the modern rugby player. Conditioning at Harlequins

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