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In-season monotony, strain and acute/chronic workload of perceived exertion, global positioning system running based variables between player positions of a top elite soccer team
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Background: The interpretation of the load variations across a period seems important to control the weekly progression
or variation of the load, or to identify within- micro and mesocycle variations. Thus, the aim of this study was
to describe the in-season variations of training monotony, training strain, and acute: chronic workload ratio (ACWR)
through session rating of perceived exertion (s-RPE), total distance and high-speed running (HSR) according to playing
positions in an elite soccer team.
Methods: Seventeen professional players from an European First League team participated in this study. They were
divided four central defenders (CD), three wide defenders (WD), four central midfielders (CM), three wide midfielders
(WM) and three strikers (ST). The players were monitored daily over a 41-week period of competition where 52
matches occurred during the 2015–2016 in-season. Through the collection of s-RPE, total distance and HSR, training
monotony, training strain and ACWR were calculated for each measure, respectively. Data were analysed across ten
mesocycles (M: 1–10).
Results: The main results showed significant differences (p < 0.05) for TMs-RPE between CD vs. ST (moderate effect)
in M2; between CD vs. CM (moderate effect) for TS of s-RPE; between CD vs. ST moderate effect) in M6 for ACWR of
s-RPE. In addition, there was significant difference between CM vs. ST (moderate effect) in M2 for TS of TD; between
WD vs. ST (moderate effect) in M3 for ACWR of TD. Moreover, there were significant differences for TM of HSR between
CD vs. WD (very large effect); CD vs. WD (moderate effect) in M4 for TS of HSR.
Conclusions: The present study presents new insights to coaches and technical staff about the variation profiling
of TM, TS, and ACWR calculated with internal and external load measures, between player positions during 10
mesocycles.
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ACWR high-speed running in-season positions RPE soccer total distance
Citation
Oliveira, R., Martins, A., Nobari, H.;Nalha,M.; Mendes,B.; Clemente,F. & Brito,J. (2021)In-season monotony, strain and acute/chronic workload of perceived exertion, global positioning system running based variables between player positions of a top elite soccer team. BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil 13, 126 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-021-00356-3