High-intensity acceleration and deceleration demands in elite team sports competitive match play: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

DJ Harper, C Carling, J Kiely - Sports Medicine, 2019 - Springer
Background The external movement loads imposed on players during competitive team
sports are commonly measured using global positioning system devices. Information …

Activity demands during multi-directional team sports: a systematic review

JB Taylor, AA Wright, SL Dischiavi, MA Townsend… - Sports Medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background Late-stage rehabilitation programs often incorporate 'sport-specific'demands,
but may not optimally simulate the in-game volume or intensity of such activities as sprinting …

Acute and residual soccer match-related fatigue: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JR Silva, MC Rumpf, M Hertzog, C Castagna, A Farooq… - Sports medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background Understanding soccer players' match-related fatigue and recovery profiles likely
helps with developing conditioning programs that increase team performance and reduce …

Physical and energetic demand of soccer: a brief review

F Dolci, NH Hart, AE Kilding, P Chivers… - Strength & …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Soccer is a complex and exhaustive team-sport requiring a high level of tactical, technical,
and physical ability to succeed. During a competitive match, a random combination of …

The use of microtechnology to quantify the peak match demands of the football codes: a systematic review

S Whitehead, K Till, D Weaving, B Jones - Sports medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background Quantifying the peak match demands within the football codes is useful for the
appropriate prescription of external training load. Wearable microtechnology devices can be …

Quantification of in-season training load relative to match load in professional Dutch Eredivisie football players

TGA Stevens, CJ de Ruiter, JWR Twisk… - … and Medicine in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: The aims of this study were (1) to quantify and compare the load of a
professional football team's training days and matches and (2) to compare training of …

Measuring physical demands in basketball: an explorative systematic review of practices

JL Russell, BD McLean, FM Impellizzeri, DS Strack… - Sports Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Measuring the physical work and resultant acute psychobiological responses of
basketball can help to better understand and inform physical preparation models and …

Interpreting physical performance in professional soccer match-play: should we be more pragmatic in our approach?

C Carling - Sports medicine, 2013 - Springer
Academic and practitioner interest in the physical performance of male professional soccer
players in the competition setting determined via time–motion analyses has grown …

Are current physical match performance metrics in elite soccer fit for purpose or is the adoption of an integrated approach needed?

PS Bradley, JD Ade - International Journal of Sports …, 2018 - journals.humankinetics.com
Time–motion analysis is a valuable data-collection technique used to quantify the physical
match performance of elite soccer players. For over 40 years, researchers have adopted a …

Strength training in soccer with a specific focus on highly trained players

JR Silva, GP Nassis, A Rebelo - Sports medicine-open, 2015 - Springer
Background Data concerning the physical demands of soccer (eg, activity pattern) suggest
that a high level of performance requires well-developed neuromuscular function (NF) …