The associations between physical-test performance and match performance in women's Rugby Sevens players.

ABSTRACT: Evaluating the relationships between physical-test and match performance in team sports could be useful for training prescription and athlete evaluation. Here we investigated these relationships in women's Rugby Sevens. Thirty provincial-representative players performed Bronco-fitness, countermovement-jump, acceleration, speed, and strength tests within two weeks before a two-day tournament. Match-running and match-action performance measures were provided by GPS units and video analysis. Generalised and general linear mixed models were employed to estimate the effect of a two standard-deviation difference in physical-test measures on match measures. Effect magnitudes were assessed via standardisation (using the between-player SD) and, for effects on tries scored, also via match winning (b

SUBMITTER: Sella FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10286606 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature