In-season training responses and perceived wellbeing and recovery status in professional soccer players.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to describe professional soccer players' training responses during a competitive season and to investigate the relationship between these responses with wellbeing and recovery indices. Thirteen professional soccer players from the same Spanish Second Division team were monitored during a sixteen-week in-season period. Players' external loads were analyzed using global positioning measurement units (GPS). Additionally, subjective reporting of sleep quality, sleep duration, fatigue, muscle soreness, and stress were assessed with a customized wellness questionnaire at the beginning of each training session. A two-step cluster analysis identified profiles of different training responses generally described as lower-demand sessions, intermediate-demand sessions, running-based s

SUBMITTER: Mateus N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8279343 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature