Sport Science 3.0: The Return of Heart Rate

With the 2025 season approaching, Bruce chats with Dr. Shane Malone (TU Dublin) about all things pre-season for the team sports. We discuss Shane’s brand new research (co-authored with Martin Buchheit) which suggests we may have become too reliant on GPS, marking the return of heart rate as a critical monitoring tool. Shane reveals why the traditional aerobic slog might be working for your midfielders but failing your explosive corner-forwards due to diminishing returns. Also discussed:The New Rules: How the “solo-and-go” and the 2-point arc might spike high-speed running demands this yearSport Science 3.0: Why combining Internal Load (Heart Rate) with External Load (GPS) is the futureThe Research: A breakdown of the 2025 “Dose-Response” paper—Endurance vs. Hybrid vs. Speed profilesPractical Coaching: How to stop the “January Spike” in injuries and why you need to treat your speed merchants differentlyReferences:Malone, S. & Buchheit, M. (2025). Dose-Response of Heart Rate Load and Performance in Gaelic Football. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.