An evidence-based approach to assessing the effectiveness of training regimen on athlete performance: Youth soccer as a case study.

ABSTRACT: Athletic performance data are modeled in an effort to better understand the relationship between both hours spent training and a measurement of "commitment" to that training, and improvements in performance. Both increased training time and greater commitment were predicted to produce larger increases in performance improvement, and commitment was predicted to be the more important determinant of improvement. The performance of 108 soccer players (ages 9-18) was quantified over a 10-week training program. Hours spent training ranged from 16 to 90 during the course of the study, while commitment scores ranged from 0.55 to 2.00, based on a scale from 0.00 to 2.40. A model selection approach was used to discriminate among models specifying relationships between training hours and improvement,

SUBMITTER: Rechenmacher CMK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9624410 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature