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This work presents the main concepts related to training loads and physical recovery in athletes. This material is the result of a collection of two master's dissertations linked to the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering of the Federal Technological University of Paraná, Campus Curitiba. Our main goal is to bring to sports professionals, essential concepts for those who want to improve their load control strategies and the physical recovery of their athletes. The content was organized in two parts: the first addresses the classic concepts and the main strategies on the control of monitoring of training loads and physical recovery of athletes. In the second part, the authors present a brief summary of the literature on the technologies available in the market, for monitoring the training loads and physical recovery of athletes, and finally, the authors present a tool specially developed to evaluate and monitor the loads of training and physical recovery of athletes, the e-Trimp application. This app is available free of charge for use in sport. It is expected that this content can contribute to the specialized literature, especially, assist, athletes, coaches, and physical trainers in improving strategies to evaluate and monitor load indicators and physical recovery.