Abstract
OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of a smartphone application in comparison against current GPS tracking type devices that are used to track players during football training and match play. Football involves repeated multi directional movements of the whole body at varying speeds and varying distances from walking to high speed running. Therefore, to evaluate validity and reliability of smartphones and elite tracker devices both were assessed and compared against each other for common metrics employed in football player activity tracking.METHODS These being, walking ≤6km/hr, jogging 6.1-12km/hr, running 12.1-18km/hr, high speed running ≥18km/hr, total distance (m), max speed (km/hr) and positional heat map. Post analysis values obtained showed that there were no significant differences between smartphones employed in the study p
Original language | English |
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Journal | Exercise Medicine |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (VoR) - 24 Apr 2019 |
Keywords
- GPS
- Mobile application
- Smartphone