SMALL-SIDED GAMES IN FOOTBALL. ARE ADAPTATIONS THE SAME FOR PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS AND AMATEURS?
Small-sided games (SSG) are very common training tasks for any team.
Small-sided games (SSG) are very common training tasks for any team.
Facilitating proper recovery after training sessions is essential to improve the athlete’s performance.
When athletes train or compete in a hot environment, their body temperature increases and a series of mechanisms for eliminating heat are triggered.
The hamstring muscle is very important in sports such as football. Not only because this muscle is key to sprinting, but also because hamstring muscle injuries are the most frequent kind of injuries.
Players’ conditional response during competition, for example, distance covered at a run, has traditionally been described using the average value covered during a half or full game.
Monitoring training load is one of the fundamental tools for optimising the performance of both elite athletes in general and football players in particular.
Despite the growing interest in Paralympic sports, research into performance in elite wheelchair sports has seen very little development.
The ability to sprint is essential in the majority of team sports, including rugby, soccer, and basketball. But this ability is not developed in stable and controlled conditions: players are constantly subjected to variable demands, whether receiving, carrying, passing, hitting, or throwing the ball.
One of today’s most attention-grabbing topics among sports researchers, coaches and managers have to do with the study of maximal demand scenarios, also known as “worst case scenarios”.
It would be completely inconceivable for education or professional practice in medicine, biology, or engineering not to be based on scientific evidence. However, although it is paradoxical, it is very common to find unscientific content in the science of sport and physical activity.