INTRODUCTION

DTS can be easily integrated into specific training programmes for sport disciplines such as Mogul Ski. The training programme could be split into three different phases:

1. In the first phase of “dry” conditioning, free weights and free-body exercises were used.
2. In the second conditioning phase, Desmotec was introduced to support work with overloads/free body. In this phase inertias were used to stimulate a greater acceleration and deceleration component.
3. In the third phase, that of approaching the races, the number of inertias was reduced to work more on the speed of the movements. Desmotec played a central role during the competitive period. The inertias were modulated according to the requests. Often it was also used as a neuromuscular “activation” the day before or the day of a competition.

SUBJECT

Gender	Female
Age	/
Job	Pro-Athlete
LIFESTYLE	Agonistic

 

OBJECTIVE TO BE ACHIEVED: 

Preparation for Mogul Ski professional competitions

TRAINING PLAN

WARM UP LOWER BODY
(2 SETS of each 15 seconds duration)

• Exercise 1: on V.line 15 sec each movements – 1M
• Exercise 2: 2M
• Exercise 3: 3M

LOWER BODY (PART 1) CIRCUIT TRAINING (2 SETS)

• Exercise 1: 15 sec duration – 4M
• Exercise 2: 5M
• Exercise 3: 15 sec each leg. – 6M

LOWER BODY (PART 2) CIRCUIT TRAINING (3 SETS)

• Exercise 1: V.line step up (15 sec each leg) – 7M
• Exercise 2: 8M
• Exercise 3: Lateral hop 15 sec duration – 9M
• Exercise 4: 15 sec duration – 10M
• Exercise 5: 6 jumps – 11M

PROTOCOL

SKI CONDITIONING

CIRCUIT TRAINING
(each station is 4×15’’ with 5’’ rest only between movements – 5 SETS for a total time of 15 minutes of work)

• Exercise 1: Bike: use towel or water in mouth to only breath through the nose – 12M
• Exercise 2: V.line Side shuffle (2 sets each side) – 13M
• Exercise 3: In out on quick feet on trampoline – 14M

CORE

CORE CIRCUIT TRAINING
(3 SETS of 20’’ each)

• Exercise 1: Hip raise on Bosu – 15M
• Exercise 2: V up on Bosu – 16M
• Exercise 3: Side bridge rows on bosu – 17M
• Exercise 4: Overhead side bend on Bosu – 18M
• Exercise 5: – 19M

 

 

RESULTS

The integration of the DTS technology with the training tecniques adopted for the preparation of professional Mogul Ski competitions, allow the athlete to perform a specific muscular strengthening programme, thanks to the eccentric training. Furthermore, the opportunity to consult his training results in real time, gives him the possibility to correct his own mistakes and adapt his training programme to any situation.

CONCLUSIONS

The Desmotec devices allows to collect, store and share the progression data of any single athlete, providing the opportunity to consult and studying the progresses. DTS technologies also prevented a lower lumbar overload, usually a consequence for this kind of training performed in the traditional way.

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INTRODUCTION

• Pre season workouts: Strength and power workouts
• In season workouts: maintaining/strength and power stimulation/pre training activation
• Return to play and Injury Prevention: Controlled eccentric overload with software unbalance feedbacks

Olympique de Marseille TRAINING PHYLOSOPHY (17/18)

• Load progression based on each player’s coordination ability
• Moving by subsequently coordinative steps to allow safety and complete movement control
• First goal: improve the specific movement efficiency under stress

2 ways to achieve eccentric response, based on the goal:

• ANALYTICAL WAY: prevention and strengthening
• FUNCTIONAL WAY: activation and strengthening

Progressions based on 2 elements: EXERCISE COMPLEXITY and LOAD

• start from a simple movement, add complexity, then add rotations and at the end add unbalance; it is crucial to respect the steps
• load selection is based on the GOAL: opposite from the weightlifting.

1. RECOVERY WORKOUTS: high inertias (PRO) to use when the muscles are stressed (after match) -> no high speed reached, less risk in the eccentric phase
2. PREVENTING ANALYTICAL WORKOUT: medium inertias (L+M) searching for movement control that will lead to efficiency
3. PERFORMANCE WORKOUTS: little inertias -> extremely fast muscle contraction -> high risk if the athletes don’t have a good movement coordination (btw, you can use low inertias in reeducation but with slow speed)

SCENARIO EXAMPLE

GAME DAY: SUNDAY

MONDAY: STRENGTH CIRCUIT TRAINING (only for who did not play on Sunday)

STRENGTH on +3 and -2 from Game Day

ADDITIONAL INDIVIDUAL CONDITIONING TRAININGS

 

PROTOCOL

TEAM WORKOUT BASE: on D. squatting, on V. CORE, ROTATIONAL, C.O.D., Specific 4 directions workout for goalkeepers, more analytical for individual conditioning trainings

STRENGTH 1 (+3 FROM GAME DAY)

4-5 STATION CIRCUIT TRAINING with D.LINE for vertical forces and V.LINE for horizontal forces
2 sets of 8-10 reps (in order to have at least 6-8 full power reps)

STRENGTH 2 (-2 FROM GAME DAY)

4-5 STATION HALF CIRCUIT TRAINING
2 sets of 4-5 reps -> to be done before the field training in order to have neuromuscular activation

Once the players have good movement control on the devices -> CLUSTER METHOD (to have always full power during exercises). PROGRESSION during the year: ADD Exercises COMPLEXITY, ADD SPEED

SOCCER SKILLS

• BALANCE
• POWER(SPEED)
• WORK CAPACITY (ABILITY TO REPEAT)

On V.Line

• unilateral front /lateral lunge
• reverse fly with split squat
• press + lunge

On D.Line 

• side to side rotating staggered squat

 

 

 

 

CONCLUSIONS

The integration of Desmotec devices into the proposed training program, allows the athletes to approach a specific training focused on power and muscular strengthening. The opportunity to collect, save and store the training data and evaluate the progress step by step, allows the trainers to analyse the training course and the performances of every athlete. Furthermore, using Desmotec devices, the athlete is subject to lower lumbar overload compared with the traditional methods.

 

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INTRODUCTION

• Presentation of the data about one of our patietiens, GZ, that used DESMOTEC D.Full in his ACL rehabilitation process
• The subject is an athlete who performs skiing and ski mountaineering
• GZ did not have any particular problem, articular mobility of knee was complete and the functionality of the articulation was good.
• The aim of this process was to improve his neuro.muscular profile:

1. Qualitative point of view (maximum syimmetrical expression of both limbs)
2. Quantitative point of view (improving power and strength)

SUBJECT

Gender	Male
Age	30
Job	Student
Lifestyle	Active

 

 

PROBLEM :

Broken right knee ACL, April 2016
Relapse, May 2019
Surgery, October 2019

REHABILITATION AND TRAINING PLAN

Functional recovery with Physiotherapist
Mobility recovery	Manual, Kinetec
Proprioceptive reprogramming	Riva Method
Open and closed kinetic chain exercises Lower Limbs	Isometric, slow speed dynamic

ISOINERTIAL PROTOCOL

Desmotec
Device	D11 Full
Test	Squat, Split Squat,
Proposed exercises	Squat, Split Squat, Side Squat, Hinge
Tool	Harness – Bar
Disks	Medium – Large – Pro

Series	3 – 5
Repetitions	5 -12

 

 

PROTOCOL

• A) Warm Up, 15 Minutes
• B) First Approach to the device
• C) Bipodalic exercises
• D) Monopodalic exercises

 

Proposed activities during sessions with D11 Full

General Warm-up, 15 minutes.

First approach to the device 2 slow series per exercise, using the Medium Disk

Monopodalic exercises using Small – Medium Disk

Bipodalic exercises using Large – Pro Disk

GZ RESULTS

These images were downloaded from D.Soft

 

 

 

On 29th November 2019, it is clear a disequilibrium to the left, with the superimposition of the unloaded force and with the derivative of the differential between the two limbs

On 3rd March 2020, the disequilibrium to the left has been reduced, with the superimposition of the unloaded force and with the derivative of the differential between the two limbs

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIPODALIC SQUAT DATA

 

 

 

POWER PEAKS BIPODALIC SQUAT

PC= Conc Peak; MC= Conc Mean
PE= Ecc Peak; EM= Ecc Mean

CONCLUSIONS

• Isoinertial training with Desmotec D.11 allowed the subject to achieve his goal, improving his beuro-muscular profile.

1. From a qualitative point of view, the force expression reached symmetry
2. From a Quantitative point of view, the growth of force, during the eccentric phase, will allow the subject to icrease work loads, allowing him to express more power.

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INTRODUCTION

• The aim of this training project is to allow the subject GG, 22 yo, 196cm, 76 kg, to restart his sport activity as amateur volleyball player
• The athlete, affected by bilateral rotuleous tendinopathy, came to our centre in order to be treated.
• Our intervention was based on physioterapic sessions, then, once the subject achieved a complete return to functionality, he started a strength conditioning training in November 2019, in order to increase his load capacity, needed for his full recovery.
• The strength conditioning training was based on isometric exercises (ex. Spanish squat) during the pre-training phase, according to the program proposed by J. Cook, integrated with isoinertial training with Desmotec D.full, in order to improve the subject’s eccentric response which is fundamental in the jumps landing phase, an high impact and frequent situation while palying volleyball.

SUBJECT

Gender	Male
Age	22
Job	Volleyball Player
LIFESTYLE	–

 

PROBLEM 

Returning to sport activity, recovering from rutulean tendinopathy

PROTOCOL

Functional recovery with Physiotherapist
Opened and closed kinetic chain exercises	Isometric, dynamic, low speed
Lower Limbs	Isometric, Isotonic

 

Isoinertial Protocol Start
Device	Desmotec D-Full
Test	Balance, Isometric Max, First Approach, Power Max

 

Isoinertial Protocol next steps
Device	Desmotec D-Full
Test/exercise	Bilateral Squat, Split Squat. Hip Hinge, Side Squat,
Inertia	Medium, High (Medium, Large, Pro)

ISOMETRIC – ISOTONIC EXERCISES

Spanish Squat different angles, 30 secs. Dor 5 repetitions, 3 times per day, Squat depth based on subject’s pain. Volleyball pre-training.

 

Bulgarian Squat, 3 slow series, 10 repetitions, focus on tension. Squat depth based on the subject’s pain. Volleyball pre-training.

ISOINERTIAL EXERCISES

 

Bilateral Squat, complete extension

 

Bilateral Squat, not complete extension

 

Iso Step-Up

Iso Split Squat

ISOINERTIAL PROTOCOL

Week 1	Sessions n.3
Series	3
Repetitions	15
Speed	Low
Rec. time	60 sec. minimum
Inertia	Medium – High
Target	Learning the exercise Ipertrophy

Week 2-3	Sessions n.6
Series	3
Repetitions	10 + 3
Speed	Medium – High
Rec. Time	60 secs. minimum
Inertia	Medium-High
Target	Ipertrophy – Power

Week 4-5	Sessions n.6
Series	5
Repetitions	5+3
Speed	Max
Rec. Time	90 secs. minimum
Inertia	Medium
Target	Develpment Power and Resistence

CONTROL TESTS

Initial Bipodalic Isometric Test, Squat 120°, 15 seconds.
Idem for Monopodalic squat

 

Max power TEST 02.12.2019 13:26
 Device: D11 Full
 Pattern: Squat Bipo
 Method: repetition
 Repetitions: 10
 Inertia: 0,6 kg/m2

 

Improved power peak in concentric work (1282w to 1414w) and eccentric work (1198 to 1734w), diminished variable in concentric work (from 25% to 5%) and eccentric work (from 23% to 13%)

 

 

Max Power test TEST05.03.2020 11:51
 Device: D11 Full
 Pattern: Squat Bipo
 Method: repetition
 Repetitions: 10
 Inertia: 0,6 kg/m2

 

 

CONCLUSIONS

 

 

• The results were excellent, the subject felt his post- training and post-game pain gradually diminishing. The pain was almost unbearable before the treatment.
• No cases of Tendinean Algia after the Isoinertial
• Feeble pain (2-3 on a 10 scale) during isotonic monopodalic exercises At the end of the treatment, an exercises program was provided to the athlete, based on 5 sessions per week, to perform before training.
• We were not able to perform the final isometric tests because of the COVID-19 emergency.

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INTRODUCTION

• This analysis is focused on physical training of DD, a basketball player of the Youth Academy who has been included in the Main Team during this season.
• The athelte has started to train again after a period of inactivity, he is 19, 196cm , 79,2 kg ha 19 anni, He needs to improve his muscular structure in order to be able to sustain the trainings with a Professional Basketball Team, playing in Italian A2.
• Following a first phase of adapting to training using with small tools (August-September), the athelte carried out a first cycle of hipertrophy with overloads (October-November) and after that, he has carried out a second phase in whichit was also integrated isoinertial training for lower limbs with overloads (November – February).

SUBJECT

Gender	Male
Age	20
Job	Basketball Player
Lifestyle	Student

 

 

PROBLEM / OBJECTIVE TO BE ACHIEVED
Improving athlete’s physical performances in three phases:

• Adapting to trainings for strength
• Hipertrophy
• Hipertrophy and power

TRAINING PLAN

PHASE 1	August – September
Goal	Adapting
Exercises	Body Weight Squat, 1 Leg Squat to Box, Hip Thruster, Hip Hinge
Weekly sessions	4
Sets and repetitions	3×12-15

PHASE 2	October – November
Goal	Hipertrophy
Exercises	Goblet Squat, 2 Dumbbells Bulgarian Squat, Plate Hip Thruster, Kettlebell Deadlift
Weekly sessions	4
Sets and repetitions	3×10

PHASE 3	December – February
Goal	Hipertrophy and power
Exercises	Barbell Squat, Isoinertial Split Squat, Barbell Hip Thruster, Barbell Deadlift
Weekly sessions	3
Sets and repetitions	3×10

PROTOCOL

 

Device	D.Full
Test	Split Squat
Tool	Integral Harness
Disk	Medium + Large

PROTOCOL
N° of weeks	12
Times per week	1
Sets	3
Repetitions	10+10

RESULTS – NOVEMBER 2019

RESULTS – FEBRUARY 2020

 

CONCLUSIONS

From November to February with one isoinertial training session per week, performed before the main basketball trainings with the team:

Total Volume from 11.65J to 18.23J

During the concentric phase
Power peak from 358W to 781W
Power average from 216W to 509W

During the eccentric phase
Power peak from 452W to 612W
Power average from 280W to 424W

CONCLUSIONS – STANDARD DEVIATION

 

Desmotec allowed me to focus on training lower limbs power, during a regular cycle of strength wit overloads.

In addition, it allowed me to monitor the Watt expressed during every repetitions in both concentric and eccentric phases, in order to verify eventual improvements in peaks and averages reached by the subject.

The Desmotec software allows to monitor the standard deviation: in this particular case it was around 20%. It is possible to analyze the execution of the exercise in case the subject needs to learn it or improve the support.

 

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