Essentials of Di Prampero metabolic power approach

Approaches and level of analysis of the physical demonstration of professional soccer players. Level 6 (part 3).

With this post I'll introduce the basic concepts to the metabolic power approaches, that under my actual knowledge are two: the known and proposed by Di Prampero (2005, 2009) and applied by Osgnach and col. 2010, and the probably less known proposed and applied by Gray 2011.

Both approaches are really interesting, but what it's important (under my view) is that using different approaches, the results when applied to field data are very similar (not so when analyzing individual maximal actions ... but we will talk about this later).

So in today post, I'll try to introduce the essential concept proposed by Di Prampero for the analysis of the metabolic power. It's extracted from the papers related before.

Enjoy,