GPSports

<h1><img style="float: right;" title="rugbyunion" src="http://gpsports.com/gpsnew/images/rugbyunion.jpg" alt="rugbyunion" />RUGBY UNION</h1>
GPSports products are used extensively around the world with several leading Rugby nations maximising performance through the daily tracking of their team's workloads. 
 
Clients include: 
The Wallabies, Springboks, England, Ireland & Fiji National programs as well as all Australian Super 15 franchises. 
 
The key benefits our Rugby clients gain from the use of our SPI technology include: 
Accurately Quantify Training Load
Know exactly how much work a player has done in a given session
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<li>Objectively assess loading across a range of intensities for distance, speed, acceleration, heart rate and impacts</li>
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Quantify Work Rate
Easily compare training drills to game intensity
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<li>Use this information to guide training structure, manage overload, manipulate drills and educate coaches </li>
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Compare Individual Players
Compare players across a range of performance measures in training and game
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<li>Use this information to target outliers in the group, assess strengths and weaknesses of individual players and quantify changes under fatigue</li>
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Maximise Performance and Minimise Injury
By understanding actual on field loads you can
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<li>Better estimate recovery timeframes</li>
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<li>Better integrate types of training  - speed, conditioning, strength, power, cross training</li>
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<li>Accurately periodise cycles of training</li>
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<li>Accurately assess and monitor players during rehabilitation</li>
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Instant Information
Receive live training data streamed to your mobile device during training.  This allows you to be on field and make informed decisions regarding;
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<li>The accumulation of load during a training session</li>
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<li>High risk players on restricted training loads</li>
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<li>Feedback and instruction to coaches and players</li>
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<li>The manipulation of training to achieve desired outcomes
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<li>For example assess heart rate response of the team and immediately modify work to rest ratios, drill sizes and or drill rules to change physical requirements</li>
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Improve Your Understanding of the Game
Collate game data to benchmark positional demands;
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<li>Use this information to prioritise the athletic development of your players</li>
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<li>Compare your data with other teams and levels of competition to identify areas for improvement</li>
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TESTIMONIAL
When we first started to use GPSports system we discovered massive differences between the workload we've wanted to achieve and the workload that was being achieved. We can now confidently mimic training intensity and volume to match the actual game we are preparing for objectively.
Tuggeranong Vikings Rugby Union Club (2011 John I Dent Cup Premiers
Ben Norcott - Strength and Conditioning Coach