Polar Team Pro - The Ultimate Diagnosis Tool in Competitive Football

Abstract

This study emphasizes the way Polar Team Pro technical solution is being implemented in competitive football training process, in terms of evaluation and monitoring the official games' parameters of football teams. This ultimate wearable technology allows tracking everyone's performance in the team, in real time, throughout the whole season. Informative reports using different filtering and search criteria are available for the coaching staff, so that a comprehensive image can be revealed about the team as a whole, and about each player performance, according to his position. The continuous flow of information provides an accurate picture of the team evolution during official games, on different components related to a successful performance. The functional, spatial and motor -related parameters, such as GPS player's positioning, speed and distances covered, distances within individual speed zones, accelerations, number of sprints and running speeds, along with heart rate monitoring are recorded by means of a Polar Team Pro sensor (which collects data about heart rate and movements tracked by GPS), a Polar Team Pro web service (cloud-based tracking system) and a Polar Team Pro app (monitoring real-time data, comparing players performance, getting game summaries etc). The individual and team data are stored in a Cloud system, allowing creating athletes profiles, team dynamics and diagnosis of performance level. This paper focuses on revealing a way of using a data base, by means of the Polar Team Pro technology, as a starting point to conceiving training guidelines, for different age groups or/and position of the players, within the team.

Wearable and Portable Devices for Acquisition of Cardiac Signals while Practicing Sport: A Scoping Review

“…Clinical studies were conducted for various sports using different type of wearables. Among the various devices, the Polar Pro Sensor was recurrent (5/35) [ 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 ]. This chest strap is included in the Polar Team Pro system and allows real-time HR monitoring of multiple athletes simultaneously.…”

“…This chest strap is included in the Polar Team Pro system and allows real-time HR monitoring of multiple athletes simultaneously. Therefore, this system is widely used in team sports, such as basketball, football, and volleyball [ 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 ]. This technology allows coaches to track athletes’ parameters during training session and competition.…”