Selected studies
Research in training & exercise science
Which badminton drills are effective? How to test a goalkeeper? How to optimize the serve in tennis? What is effective about HIIT protocols and the ice barrel? We are working on five research areas in MoveLab of the faculty and on the sports field. Our diagnostics mobile takes us where we need to go.
What we research
Research area 1: Performance management in cycling, running and triathlon
Direction: Dr Florian Hanakam
- Training documentation, monitoring and training control in professional triathlon
- Individual control of load intensity in endurance training
- Athletic training and running economy
- Influence of ambient temperature and music motivation on performance and exercise tolerance
- Interval training and performance physiology in childhood and adolescence
Research area 2: Stress monitoring and regeneration management
Direction: Dr Christoph Schneider
- Scientific evidence on the effect of regeneration interventions on performance and functionality of the working muscles (WVL project REGman)
- Gender- and age-specific aspects of regeneration management
- Monitoring of training load and athlete response
- Heart rate and heart rate variability for vegetative status diagnostics
- Evaluation of novel wearable technologies for athlete monitoring
- Optical pulse measurement in swimming (BISp service project with the German Swimming Association)
- Formulation of instructions for regeneration management in competitive sports practice
Research area 3: Differentiated diagnostics in junior competitive sport
Direction: Nicola Volk
- Differentiated reference ranges for physical and motor development in junior competitive sports of football, basketball and tennis.
- Creation of athlete profiles for guideline-oriented individualised training control
- Objectification of talent-sensitive and selection-relevant characteristics
- Development, evaluation and standardisation of test procedures specific to sports games
- Strength/speed-based profiling and training
Research area 4: Athletic training in sports games
Direction: Jo-Lâm Vuong
- Stress profiles in the sports games
- Speed and the rapid change of direction in sports games
- Pathway analysis of the intercorrelation of athletic subcomponents
- Evaluation of innovative training aids and training devices (e.g. assisted versus resisted training)
- Development of practical sports aids and video clips for training control
Research area 5: Performance physiology in racket games
Direction: Antonia Edel
- Differential analyses of aerobic, anaerobic-alactacidic and anaerobic-lactacidic energy metabolism in competitive play (project with the World Badminton Federation, WBF)
- Training forms in high performance badminton: systematic analysis of load and stress under variation of load normatives (BISp project with the German Badminton Association, DBV)
- Influence of anaerobic-lactacidic stress on stroke precision and stroke quality as well as on action and movement speed in badminton
- Portable Spirometry, Indirect Calorimetry and Metabolic Power in Tennis and Badminton
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