- Understanding ‘monitoring’ data–the association between measured stressors and athlete responses within a holistic basketball performance framework

Conceptual framework for physical training in professional basketball, adapted from the work by Jeffries et al. [12] Prescription represents the short and long-term planning and execution of training, competition and travel over the course of the season (i.e., nature and organization of training sessions and travel) External load represents the physical demands associated with training, competition, and travel during the season, and training load is the specific stimulus induced by both training sessions and competition. Internal load represents the psychophysiological responses occurring during the execution of training. Contextual factors are defined as factors that are not part of the main training process, such as environmental, social, and cultural factors, but can influence the training process or outcome. Individual factors are characteristics of the individual athlete, such as genetics, psychological traits and states, and training background, which can influence the training process or outcome. Training effects can be acute or chronic, and positive or negative, effects caused and occurring after the training session, and can be assessed using functional, subjective, physiological, biomechanical and cognitive measures. The bidirectional arrow represents a reciprocal nature of interactions between training effects and individual/contextual factors. For example, a negative training effect (e.g., increased fatigue or poor sleep) can act as an individual factor influencing the internal training load in the subsequent session. Sports performance outcomes are defined as the result of the balance between positive and negative training effects.