Effects of Intermittent-Endurance Fitness on Match Performance in Young Male Soccer Players

Abstract

Castagna, C, Impellizzeri, F, Cecchini, E, Rampinini, E, and Barbero Alvarez, JC. Effects of intermittent-endurance fitness on match performance in young male soccer players. J Strength Cond Res 23(7) : 1954-1959, 2009-The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of specific endurance (Yo-Yo Intermittent recovery test level 1, Yo-Yo IR1) on match performance in male youth soccer. Twenty-one young, male soccer players (age 14.1 6 0.2 years) were involved in the study. Players were observed during international championship games of corresponding age categories and completed the Yo-Yo IR1 on a separate occasion. Physical (distance coverage) and physiological match demands were assessed using Global Positioning System technology and heart rate (HR) short-range telemetry, respectively. During the match (two 30-minutes halves), players covered 6,204 6 731 m, of which 985 6 362 m (16%) were performed at high intensities (speed .13 kmÁh 21 , HIA). A significant decrement (3.8%, p = 0.003) in match coverage was evident during the second half. No significant (p = 0.07) difference between halves was observed for HIA (p = 0.56) and sprint (speed .18 kmÁh 21 , SPR) distances. During the first and second halves, players attained the 86 6 5.5 and 85 6 6.0% of HRmax (p = 0.17), respectively. Peak HR during the first and second halves were 100 6 4 and 99.4 6 4.7% of HRmax, respectively. Yo-Yo IR1 performance (842 6 352 m) was significantly related to match HIA (r = 0.77, p , 0.001) and total distance (r = 0.65, p = 0.002). This study's results showed that specific endurance, as determined by Yo-Yo IR1 performance, positively affects physical match performance in male young soccer players. Consequently, the Yo-Yo IR1 test may be regarded as a valid test to assess game readiness and guide training prescription in male youth soccer players.

Relationship Between Endurance Field Tests and Match Performance in Young Soccer Players

“…Recently a number of field tests have been proposed to assess aerobic fitness in male youth soccer players (8,9,13,26,41). These tests possess different degree of logical validity as per exercise mode (i.e.…”

Validity and reliability of 6-a-side small-sided game locomotor performance in assessing physical fitness in football players

“…Besides fitness tests, time-motion analysis of both matches and SSGs in training could perhaps provide additional information about football-specific fitness. Indeed, many studies found positive correlations between aerobic fitness tests and match locomotor performance assessed as (high intensity) distance covered (Buchheit, Mendez-Villanueva, Simpson, & Bourdon, 2010;Castagna, Impellizzeri, Cecchini, Rampinini, & Alvarez, 2009;Castagna, Manzi, Impellizzeri, Weston, & Barbero Alvarez, 2010;Krustrup et al, 2003;Rampinini et al, 2007a;Rebelo, Brito, Seabra, Oliveira, & Krustrup, 2014) or estimated metabolic power (Manzi et al, 2014). However, in team sports, maximal (physical) performance is difficult to define during an actual match (Halson, 2014), as it is influenced by many factors such as player position, score line, opposition and tactics (Carling, 2013).…”

“…Although no other studies related aerobic or anaerobic endurance tests to SSG locomotor performance, previous studies (Buchheit et al, 2010;Castagna et al, 2009;Castagna et al, 2010;Krustrup et al, 2003;Rampinini et al, 2007a;Rebelo et al, 2014) The present study assessed the variability and test-retest reliability of the 6v6-SSG for commonly used time-motion variables, including estimated metabolic power and acceleration metrics. Variability was low for total distance and metabolic power (both 4%), but higher for distance covered above high-intensity thresholds for speed, acceleration and metabolic power (8-14%).…”

Comparison of the physical demands in sub13 and sub14 football players on a 7-a-side game played with different lengths

“…La utilidad de manejar información sobre el perfil físico de los jugadores en competición va permitiendo responder a diferentes problemas de investigación. Uno de ellos ha sido valorar la correlación entre el desplazamiento acumulado en la competición y el rendimiento en test específicos de resistencia como el YOYO test (Castagna, Impellizzeri, Cecchini, Rampini, & Álvarez, 2009) o el test de Hoff (Castagna, Manzi, Impellizzeri, Weston, & Álvarez, 2010); correlaciones positivas entre ambos podrían facilitar programar diferentes contenidos de entrenamiento que permitieran mejorar el rendimiento físico en la competición. Respecto a test de velocidad, cabe decir que los valores pico alcanzados en competición respecto a las logrados por los mismos jugadores en un test de velocidad no siempre coinciden, siendo habitualmente superiores las velocidades alcanzadas en una prueba específica (Goto et al, 2015a(Goto et al, , 2015b.…”