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Speed Endurance Training, Muscle Damage and Performance in Soccer Players

NCT03602248 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2020-09-24

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Summary

Soccer is an intermittent sport in which the aerobic and anaerobic capacity of the players are both very important. Elite football players perform an average of 150-250 short and intense movements during a match, demonstrating the significant contribution of the anaerobic energy system. Speed endurance training consists a tool to enhance the performance of aerobic and anaerobic system. This training includes actions such as sprinting, changes of direction, accelerations, decelerations, jumps and shooting, characterized by a strong eccentric component. Eccentric actions are associated with exercise induced muscle damage (EIMD). Nevertheless, to date, EIMD responses following a session of speed endurance training have not yet been investigated. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to examine the EIMD responses and changes on performance and neuromuscular fatigue indices after two different speed endurance training protocols.

Conditions

  • Speed Endurance Training Protocol 1
  • Speed Endurance Training Protocol 2
  • Control

Interventions

OTHER

Speed endurance training protocol A

1 set of 8 repetitions interspersed by 2,5 minutes of recovery with a work to rest ratio of 1:5 (25-30 seconds all out work)

OTHER

Speed endurance training protocol B

1 set of 8 repetitions interspersed by 4 minutes of recovery with a work to rest ratio of 1:8 (25-30 seconds all out work)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Thessaly

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ioannis G Fatouros, PhD · University of Thessaly

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-08
Primary Completion
2018-07-31
Completion
2018-09-01

Countries

  • Greece

Study Locations

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