Since taking over at the Etihad in 2016, Pep Guardiola has had no shortage of success, but this season there has been a different vibe, a harmony of every player and every strategy working exactly as it should.
The most recent of them is the Gx Patch, a wearable technology device made to analyze perspiration, the least preferred side effect of exercise at any level.
The single-use wearable patch is attached to the athlete's forearm, and as they work out and start to perspire, the patch begins to measure two separate elements of the body fluid. The athlete's sweat will be measured using the orange and purple channels, which will fill up as the participant perspires.
The outcome, according to Caroline Tarnowski, a scientist with GSSI, is an understanding of the athlete's "unique sweat profile."
We can make recommendations for their nutrition and hydration based on these findings.
Every athlete sweats in a unique way; some may have a
Every athlete sweats in a unique way; some have a high sweat rate but little sweat sodium, while others may have a low sweat rate but a lot of concentrated sodium, which causes them to lose a lot of sodium through their sweat.
Due of their willingness to implement the advice of GSSI, Tarnowski refers to Manchester City as a "great club" to work with. The organization's scientists are tasked with training the club's chefs in nutrition and hydration from a customized, but more crucially, individualized perspective, and assisting them in developing menus that can adapt to the various needs of players on various days.
According to her coworker Liam Brown, the customized nature of the work GSSI and Man City have done together in delivering comprehensive plans for each individual player shows the cutting-edge
Brown observes that in the past, many of the recommendations were somewhat general.These days, they're concentrating on individual requirements that will aid increase the performance of particular athletes.
This is crucial because every person is unique. Right now, personalization is what we're really concentrating on. That's really the way to go, and the clubs' incorporation of technology is assisting with that.
A player's sweat profile analysis is but one component of an ever-more intricate technical problem. In order to further analyze their findings, Tarnowski specifies two data sets that a club can evaluate in conjunction with the sweat patches: GPS monitors, which are utilized both during training and during games, and heart rate monitors.
These technological fusions and their customized results can assist elite sides like
Real-world monitoring is a focus,' Brown continues. Until now, all research has been conducted in laboratories under controlled conditions. The athletes can now be tested while they are actually on the field thanks to this technology. Therefore, it is giving feedback in real time.
This Premier League champion-turned-lab rat enables ongoing improvement. For rehabilitation from minor or major injury, for changes in fixture scheduling, and most importantly, for the environment, nutrition and hydration programs can be customized.
Nobody in Greater Manchester, especially not in early June, has any illusions that their climate is identical to that of people in Istanbul. But owing to patch testing, City will be aware of how their players differ when perspiring in hot or cold climates.
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