Vol. 3, Issue 1, Part A (2021)

Wearable tech is being used in sports training, which has opened up new ways to track and improve performance. This study looks into what happens to football players' aerobic ability when they do High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) with wearable tech. Over the course of eight weeks, thirty male football players aged 18 to 24 were randomly put into two groups: one did wearable tech-integrated HIIT, and the other did standard HIIT. The experimental group wore devices that tracked their heart rate, level of effort, and recovery in real time. This let them make personalized changes to their workout intensities during sessions. The Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test Level 1 (Yo-Yo IR1) was used to measure aerobic ability before and after the intervention. We used paired t-tests to look at differences between pre- and post-test scores within groups and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to look at differences between groups after the test while taking baseline scores into account. There was a statistically significant increase (p<0.05) in aerobic ability between the experimental group and the control group. There was a statistically significant improvement (p<0.05) in aerobic ability between the experimental group and the control group. The results show that wearable tech can help football players train more accurately, recover faster, and build their aerobic fitness much more quickly. Wearable tech that is integrated into HIIT workouts is a potential way to improve athletic conditioning and performance.