Validation of measuring specific energy expenditure in team handball
Cooperation project with the Norwegian School of Sport Science in Oslo, Norway (2019-2021)
Comparison of specific energy expenditure in team handball derived from a respiratory gas exchange analysis (spiroergometry) and a local position measurement (LPM) system applying the GBPT. Determination of the energy expenditure via indirect calorimetry for spiroergometry data and via the metabolic power method for LPM data.
The effects of game sport specific HI training on selected performance parameters
Pilot project, University Salzburg, Austria (2019)
Examination of selected performance parameters (game-sport specific speed and game-sport specific endurance) using an adapted repeated sprint agility test (RSA test) protocol and a YoYo IR1 test before and after a one-month intervention of game-sport specific intermittent high-intensity training (intermittent HI-Training).
Specific performance in elite female team handball
Cooperation project with the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2018-2020)
Determination of the relationships between physical and physiological test results from a GBPT, a YoYo intermittent recovery test (YoYo IR1 test), and a linear single sprint performance test (SSPT) in female team handball players as well as measuring the on-court physical performance of adult female elite, top-elite, and world-class players by applying the GBPT and further examining the achieved differences between these groups.
Physical performance in elite male and female team handball players
Project of the University Salzburg, Austria (2016-2018)
Conducting various general tests as well as the specific GBPT with female and male athletes of the same level. Comparison between the general performance as well as between the specific performance of both sexes. Following assessment of these comparisons as well as the relationship between general and specific performance for both groups.
Validation of a game-based performance test in team handball
Cooperation project with the Austrian Handball Federation (2014-2016)
Validating the game-based performance test (GBPT) by conducting the GBPT, an incremental treadmill running test as well as a team-handball test game while measuring various parameters within these tests just as VO2peak, blood lactate concentration, heart rate, sprinting time, time and amount of offensive and defensive actions, running intensities, jump height, ball velocity, mean offense and defense time, walking and standing percentage.