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Recovery Kinetics After the Use of Small Sided Games With a Small and Large Number of Players and Large Pitch Area

NCT03970707 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2020-03-20

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Summary

Soccer is an intermittent sport in which the aerobic and anaerobic capacity of the players are both essential. 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. Sided-games is a tool to enhance the performance of the 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 sided games training have not yet been investigated. Therefore, the present study aims to examine the speed of recovery after training with a large-dimension pitch area with a small and large number of athletes in football.

Conditions

  • Sided Games in Soccer Training

Interventions

OTHER

Small Number of Players training protocol A

8 participants each side game (4vs4), size of pitch area 25\*20 m. In total, 6 consecutive 4-minutes bouts interspersed by a 3-minutes rest between each bout will be executed.

OTHER

Large Number of Players training protocol B

16 participants each side game (8vs8), size of pitch area 25\*20 m. In total, 3 consecutive 8-minutes bouts interspersed by a 1-minutes rest between each bout will be executed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Thessaly

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ioannis G Fatouros, PhD · DPESS, School of Physical Education, Sport & Dietetics, 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
2019-08-30
Primary Completion
2020-08-30
Completion
2020-09-30

Countries

  • Greece

Study Locations

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