What are Repeat High Intensity Efforts (RHIEs)?

Repeat High Intensity Efforts provide the ability to identify periods where athletes have put in repeated ‘high intensity’ velocity efforts without adequate recovery. Successive individual high intensity efforts that are repeated within a pre determined time frame are grouped into RHIE bouts. The information gathered can provide feedback on the relative fitness of an athlete. 

Users can set thresholds that must be met in order for high intensity efforts to be included in an RHIE set. If your account has Acceleration and Velocity Generation 1 and Generation 2 parameters, only the Generation 2 Acceleration or Velocity efforts will be included in RHIEs as per the bands set for the Generation 2 parameters.

How to set Thresholds for the Repeat High Intensity Efforts (RHIEs)?

Thresholds must be set for RHIE effort count, RHIE effort recovery, RHIE velocity bands and RHIE acceleration bands. To set each of these, please complete the following: 

1. Navigate to the OpenField Cloud and click 'Settings' from the header menu.

2. From the 'Settings' menu, select the 'Teams' tab from the left hand menu. 

3. Click the team you want to adjust the RHIE setting for. 

4. Scroll down to the following settings and in each of the corresponding field boxes adjust the values accordingly

   

   • RHIE Effort Count: The minimum amount of successive high intensity efforts needed to create a RHIE bout. 

   • RHIE Effort Recovery: The maximum amount of time allowed between repeat high intensity efforts in order for the effort to be included in an RHIE bout. 

   • Velocity RHIE Bands: If an effort was to reach the selected velocity band(s) it would be considered a high intensity effort. Bands are separated by a comma and a space (e.g 4,5,6,7,8)

   • Acceleration RHIE Bands: If an effort was to reach the selected acceleration band(s) it would be considered a high intensity effort. Bands are separated by a comma and a space (e.g 4,5,6,7,8).

5. In addition to Velocity and Acceleration Efforts, RHIEs also includes some types of IMA events:

   • IMA Intensity (Acceleration Gen2) RHIE Bands

   • IMA Jump RHIE Bands

   • IMA Impact/Tackle Bands

   • Dive Load (Goal Keeping V2) Bands

The below is available for accounts Gen 1 Acceleration only and Goalkeeping Version 1 only:

• • IMA Intensity 1 (Acceleration Gen1) RHIE Bands

  • IMA Dive Intensity (Goal Keeping V1) Bands

In the team settings, the desired bands you wish to include in the RHIE efforts for the above IMA events can be selected:

Repeat High Intensity Efforts Parameters Definitions

For a list of Repeat High Intensity Efforts (RHIEs) parameters, please see our OpenField Cloud Parameter Definitions article. The definitions can be found under the Repeat High Intensity Efforts (RHIEs) section.