Can athlete-monitoring tools discriminate performance change in national swimmers?
A multidimensional monitoring system is recommended for national swimmers as no single variable adequately discriminates performance changes.
Many monitoring variables are sensitive to changes in fitness and fatigue. However, no single monitoring variable could discriminate performance change. As such the use of a multidimensional system that may be able to better account for variations in fitness and fatigue should be considered.
Crowcroft et al. (Thu,) studied this question.