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PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
Volume 209, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.112588
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Football; External load; GPS; Training load; Training monitoring
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The purpose of this study was to quantify the physical loads of programmed pre-season training in four different professional Dutch and Portuguese soccer teams. Eighty-nine professional players were monitored daily during a five-week period. We monitored the physical loading of training by measuring the external load measures of total distance covered, walking distance, jogging distance, running distance, sprinting distance, high-intensity sprint distance, player's load and number of sprints using a 10 Hz GPS technology. Weekly external load and intra-week external load variations were tested. Repeated measures did not show significant differences between weeks in terms of weekly loads based on total distance and sprinting distance. Significant differences were found between training days considering the duration (p = .011), walking distance (p = .017), running distance (p = .004), player's load (p = .040) and number of sprints (p = .006). Variations between weeks were small, however infra-week variations were observed namely considering the measures associated with great volume and lower intensity.
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