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Sports diagnostics is a comprehensive scientific concept and comprises an aspect of training monitoring and/or sports medicine. In many cases, it is challenging to implement in the real world of sports, especially in the professional sphere [1,2]. It consists, among other aspects, of the medical control of both sick and healthy training competitors [3]; above all, this level of control allows fatigue to be managed and protects a competitor from the excessive risk of injury during intensive sports training [4].
One of the main goals of sports diagnosis is to maintain health, because it is on this basis that a regular training process is possible. Health--i.e., not just the ability to perform sports in general, but being healthy overall and free from injury after the end of a training session--is the smallest structure of the training process [5]. The maintenance of health allows one to break down the body's barriers and perform more complex and extended efforts [6]. The right balance between training stimuli and rest allows one to adapt to new exercise conditions [7]. Due to this, it is possible to track the performance progress of an athlete. This applies to improving motor, technical, and even mental preparation in relation to the effort put in. We train to improve and achieve increasingly better sports-related results [8]. These elements, health and progress, are inextricably linked and result from one another; they penetrate each other. They show us what is meant by the term sports diagnostics.
The essence of sports diagnostics is the use of special procedures and tools necessary to control an athlete's training process properly [9,10]. This applies to the assessment of the reaction of the athlete's body--the system--to the training stimuli used in this process, i.e., the so-called training measures. This applies to both reactions/stimuli used in a single training unit of tasks (exercises), i.e., the current effect (acute responses), and the accumulation of many training sessions, e.g., carried out in a microcycle--and this will be a prolonged effect (chronic responses). Finally, long-term training effects are assessed, for example, in long mesocycles or macrocycles [11]. Here, we deal with the so-called cumulative effect. This shows us the state of a player's actual training in a given training period, an annual cycle--that is, the athlete's visible progress...
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