Player Monitoring System NOW AVAILABLE!

How do you feel today? Good? Bad? In between?

How did you feel yesterday? Not the same as today huh?

How will you feel tomorrow? Could be different again, easily.

This is life.

The way you feel today, the way you felt 3 days ago and the way you felt a week ago can affect everything you do.

Stress is a pet of everything we do. We have physical stress in the form of football, training and manual labor and then we have mental stress in the form of education, office jobs, relationships and how we perceive things.

Some people handle stress well and some don't, there's no issue there.

And it's also fine to get stressed because that is when we are being challenges in some form and makes us better.

What is more important though is not overloading stress and if this does occur, then you need to know how to 'get out of stress".

Stress pretty much kills. It alters the way you move and it alters the way you think. Many illnesses can be put down to stress, or an overload of stress, during a given period of time.

If you're body is tired then immunity is stressed and if a bug breaks past your immunity, you get sick. If you were to manage the stress, then the bug wouldn't have a chance and you'd feel nothing.

When you;re body is tired it alters posture by moving into a fetal dominant posture with shoulders rounding and hips flexing so you're bum sticks out behind you like an old man on a walking stick.

Your breathing patterns change in an effort to conserve energy because now that you're posture has moved, it's harder to breath. This results in poor circulation of oxygen which makes you tired - constantly tired.

And this can all happen from 1 single episode of stress.

Now let's say you have a high stress job, work long hours, have young children and train/play a relatively high level. Everything on this list is causes high stress.

You're body has something called homeostasis which is a "point' where the body feels comfortable and it's where it sits at rest. All those things above move you away from homeostasis, into a state of un-comfortableness. This is great for trying to get better because it's where improvements can be made but by adding new stress on top of existing stress, can move your set point into permanent un-comfortableness.

What this does is activate your sympathetic nervous system which is responsible for such things increasing heart rate and responsiveness (think 'fight") which again is great at certain times. But what often happens is that you get stuck in this sympathetic state and this means you'll find it hard to rest, sleep, sit still and digest - all things that will move your body back into homeostasis.

Your parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for recovery and rest and is what you need to activate as soon as you can after times of stress.

Laying stress on top of stress is the best and fastest way to get an injury bar none!

With the Aussie Rules Training Player Monitoring System, we can hopefully predict periods of fatigue before and as they happen so you can later your training and/or lifestyle accordingly.

This will help you avoid non-contact injuries as well ensure that you are "peaking" every Saturday and not Friday or Sunday.

There are 3 levels of player monitoring you choose from:

Level 1 - 2 questions answered and emailed to me 3 times a week.

Level 2 - level 1 requirements + a daily wellness survey emailed to me everyday

Level 3 - level 1 and 2 requirements + the purchase of a $10 app (not mine and I'm not affiliated with it at all) which also entails emailing me daily the results.

All I do is gather your information and look for patterns in your performance and wellness scores.

The first 3 - 4 weeks we'll establish your baseline and then after that we can look at altering specific things to ensure Saturday is the day you're at your best.

This is perfect for local/amateur footballers who have far more outside stress then football stress, unlike our elite counterparts.

The system can be used for individual players and teams alike.

For teams I'd suggest going with either of these options:

#1 - Having your senior "squad" of 25 odd players and have them use the system so even those that are playing reserves can be monitored in case they need to cover injured players. There also might be cases of a player who's really on the edge of fatigue overload and may require a rest against a lower placed team. By monitoring their potential replacements you can ensure bringing the best option available into the side for minimal loss of coverage.

#2 - Monitoring your best 18 players.

#3 - Monitoring your top 6 - 12 players as most local/amateur teams will win games or be ultra competitive with their best 6 or so players playing every week.

I'll be doing this manually for starters but I have a mate working on an app that will hopefully make it a bit more easy for everyone but with practice games already starting the time is now to get this out. Yes there will be a fee for this but it will not break your budget that's for sure.

So if you're a player or a coach who is interested in this then please email at aussierulestraining@gmail.com with any questions you might have and the option you think would suit you best.

If you read my interviews with the various strength coaches from the AFL, VFL and TAC then you'll know how critical this sort of stuff has become in Aussie Rules and most of the time with new innovations in footy, the cost is far too great and the knowledge required to do it is not in grasp for any local/amateur club to implement.

This is.

So if you're year was wrecked by injuries last year, this might be the best investment you can make.