Data-Driven Football Performance in Bundesliga - with Jonas Bode, Lead Performance Coach at Borussia Mönchengladbach
May 08, 12:59 PM
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Jonas Bode is a performance coach working with the first team at Borussia Mönchengladbach in the German Bundesliga.
He has built his career through the German football system, starting in youth development at Carl Zeiss Jena, then moving to Bayern Munich’s academy, before progressing to Borussia Mönchengladbach where he worked with the U23 team and now the first team.
Jonas is responsible for load management, training planning, and integrating physiological data into daily coaching decisions. His work focuses on balancing training intensity, supporting communication with coaches and players, and applying data from tools such as heart rate monitoring and GPS.
- Jonas’s career path and transition to the first team (1:31)
- Role and responsibilities in load management and planning (2:25)
- How Firstbeat was implemented and integrated into daily workflow (7:04)
- Using heart rate data to guide rest and training decisions (8:33)
- Weekly microcycle and training structure (8:33)
- Submaximal fitness testing: why, how, and when (12:12)
- How testing data informs training adjustments (17:15)
- Building player and coach buy in using physiological data (19:01)
- Key metrics used in practice: high intensity minutes and TRIMP (20:52)
- Managing data overload and focusing on key parameters (22:37)
- Future needs for monitoring and real time data quality (24:43)