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Intra-season variations in workload parameters in Europe’s elite young soccer players: a comparative pilot study between starters and non-starters
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Background: The main purpose of the current study was to compare the within-season
variations of workload, training duration, acute/chronic workload ratio (ACWR), training monotony™,
and training strain (TS) through session rating perceived exertion (s-RPE) between starters and
non-starters. Methods: Seventeen under-17 European male soccer players (age, 16.2 0.3 y, height,
1.8 0.1 m; body mass, 66.5 4.0 kg) divided in two groups: nine starters and eight non-starters,
were evaluated over 50 weeks throughout the season. Results: In general, there were load variations
for all players during the full-season. RPE tended to decrease during in-season and RPE, training
duration and s-RPE did not present significant differences between starters and non-starters. TM and
TS presented lower values for starters in mesocycle (M) 4 and M11 compared to non-starters. TS presented
lower values for starters in M4 and M11 compared to non-starters, while in M10 a higher value
was found for starters when compared to non-starters. ACWR showed differences between starters
and non-starters in two of the mesocycles. Conclusions: This study showed that some mesocycles
provided higher load for non-starters. This information can alert coaches that non-starter players are
likely to try too hard in training to demonstrate their abilities, leading to non-functional overreaching,
overtraining syndrome, and then poor performance.
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internal load young soccer ACWR monotony performance monitoring
Citation
Martins, A.D.; Oliveira, R.; Brito, J.P.; Loureiro, N.; Querido, S.M. & Nobari, H. (2021).Intra-Season Variations in Workload Parameters in Europe’s Elite Young Soccer Players: A Comparative Pilot Study between Starters and Non-Starters. Healthcare, 9(8), 977. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/healthcare9080977
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MDPI