Team sport

Endurance sports already make extensive use of ventilatory thresholds (VT1 and VT2) to structure training. But what is less well known is that these thresholds are just as crucial in team sports , where the effort is much more intermittent, explosive and unpredictable. Football, rugby, basketball, handball, hockey: ➡️ All these sports rely on alternating periods of intense effort, short recovery periods, and rapid restarts. And in these contexts, respiratory capacity plays a

In team sports — football, rugby, basketball, handball, hockey — performance does not depend solely on speed or power. It depends above all on your ability to string together intermittent efforts : accelerations, sprints, jumps, duels, changes of direction… and then quickly return to a stable breathing state to repeat these efforts again and again. Breathing is at the heart of this ability. Better yet: it is an immediate indicator of your internal state, often much more re