Acute-Chronic Workload Monitoring

Sleep and other recovery factors should be included in workload monitoring because injury risk depends on more than workload alone. Speed work and distance running should use separate workload calculators because their force demands differ. Acute-chronic workload monitoring must be applied specifically to each type of activity rather than aggregating different activities into a single number. Internal training load can be estimated by multiplying session duration by rating of perceived exertion. Combining different activities such as weightlifting, games, and speed work into one workload number is a major clinical mistake because they impose different forces. Measuring external load is difficult in school and clinic settings without specialized tools such as GPS trackers or RFID systems.