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Evidence-based education on load management, readiness, and training science.
RPE and session-RPE: the science behind the simplest load metric
A detailed review for coaches and athletes on Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and session-RPE (sRPE) — the history, the validity, the formulas, and how to use it properly.
How MicroPulse Detects Neuromuscular Fatigue: Locating the Fatigue, Not Just Flagging It
A jump that's down can't say where the fatigue is. This is how MicroPulse locates it — splitting neuromuscular fatigue into neural, tissue and systemic from the CMJ's phase metrics, the wellness check-in and the post-match recovery curve — and why it only ever explains, never overrides, the verdict.
Wellness Check-Ins for Athletes: What the Evidence Says About Self-Report Monitoring
Short daily self-report questionnaires — fatigue, sleep, soreness, stress, mood — are among the most widely used monitoring tools in sport. This review of the evidence shows why they often out-sense costly objective markers, how they relate to injury risk, and how to run them well.
MET Technique: How Muscle Energy Technique Reduces Injury Risk
Muscle Energy Technique (MET) is one of the most effective ways to improve range of motion and reduce muscle tension. Here is how and why it works.
ACWR and Load Management: How to Manage Training Load to Prevent Injuries
The Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio (ACWR) is one of the most important tools in modern sport for assessing injury risk. Here is how coaches can use it effectively.
Small-Sided Games: How Player Count and Pitch Size Change the Training Stimulus
Small-sided games (SSG) are the backbone of modern football training. But how does 3v3 on a small pitch compare to 5v5 on a large one? Here is the science behind drill design.
MicroPulse for Basketball: What Can Basketball Teams Use?
MicroPulse is not just for football. Basketball teams can use nearly all system features with sport-specific metrics designed for indoor environments.
Team Match Insight: connecting running data, xG and results
A new analysis screen in MicroPulse reads GPS and IMA movement against match results and Wyscout stats (xG). Here is what it does, what Breiðablik's own data shows — and why it never claims running causes winning.
Team Match Insight explained: whole-team match analysis, end to end
A detailed guide for coaches on what Team Match Insight shows, where the data comes from (Wyscout General, Defending and Indexes plus GPS/IMA), how to read each panel, how data gets in without overwriting — and what comes next.
The forgotten side of recovery: your athletes' nervous system, not just their muscles
Recovery after a match is usually framed around muscle damage, glycogen, nutrition and sleep. Those things matter enormously. But they are not the whole story. A football match also alters neural drive and autonomic regulation — and some of those changes can persist into the following day. Understanding that does not require treating the nervous system as something mysterious. It simply means recognising that recovery is a whole-system process.
Isometric strength training for team sports: what the evidence actually says — and how to program it
Isometrics can build maximal strength, sharpen rate of force development, prime the nervous system before explosive work — and do it all with unusually low fatigue. What the evidence supports (mostly from Danny Lum and Keith Baar), where it is still thin, and how a coach without a sports-science department can actually use it.