Acute and residual fatigue in elite football
Understanding fatigue after playing a football game and the recovery profiles of biological systems are two key elements to improve training programmes and reduce players’ injuries.
Understanding fatigue after playing a football game and the recovery profiles of biological systems are two key elements to improve training programmes and reduce players’ injuries.
Training load control (TL) has become a cornerstone on which to optimise performance and avoid the risk of injury.
Strength training programs have a variety of goals, although the two main ones for most athletes are to increase strength or muscle mass.
Football is a constantly evolving sport. The modification of the rules of the game, the emergence of new tactics and the improvement in the players’ technical cause changes in performance and in the teams.
Exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) can have important consequences for the performance of athletes as it is associated with muscle pain and a decrease of the neuromuscular function.
Overtime, the competitive distance among elite football teams has shortened, so the focus is currently on those aspects that can tip the scale to one side or the other.
Glycogen plays a key role in sports performance. During exercise, especially when performed at high intensity, the glycolytic metabolism takes on a special relevance.
Injuries are a major concern in football. Among all, muscle injuries are the most frequent ones, more than receiving a blow, fractures and joint injuries.
Muscle injuries involve more than 30 % of injuries in professional football players.
Injuries, specially muscle injuries, are a great concern in sports as they represent the main cause of interruption for athletes.