Implementing concurrent-training and nutritional strategies in professional football: a complex challenge for coaches and practitioners

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Implementing concurrent-training and nutritional strategies in professional football: a complex challenge for coaches and practitioners http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5371/ Article LJMU has developed LJMU Research Online for users to access the research output of the University more effectively. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LJMU Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain.The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of the record. Please see the repository URL above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. The present data demonstrate that the organisation of CT (i.e., exercise order and/or recovery time between bouts) and nutrition (i.e., timing of meal intake) can be unsystematic in the applied environment. The organisation of training and nutrition might influence the players' ability to perform high-intensity actions in secondary training sessions and could potentially impact acute metabolic processes associated with muscle recovery and muscle adaptation.

UEFA expert group statement on nutrition in elite football. Current evidence to inform practical recommendations and guide future research

“…It is noteworthy, however, that gym and field-based training sessions may not always be delivered in a systematic and structured sequence. 95 The order of these can influence players' habitual macronutrient intake and the magnitude of the strength adaptations induced. 96 Both absolute daily intake and distribution of macronutrient intake have the capacity to affect training performance and recovery and to modulate training adaptations.…”

Order of same-day concurrent training influences some indices of power development, but not strength, lean mass, or aerobic fitness in healthy, moderately-active men after 9 weeks of training

“…We previously demonstrated attenuated strength gains following 8 weeks of concurrent HIIT+RT training, when sessions were performed in close proximity (10 min) [35]. In the present study, we adopted a more ecologically-valid between-mode recovery period of 3 hours, as is often utilised in many athletic populations [40][41][42][43]. This duration may have afforded participants sufficient time to recover, and to implement nutritional strategies to support subsequent exercise performance and training adaptations.…”

“…wk -1 between-mode recovery) [36][37][38][39]. However, in many applied sport settings, concurrent sessions are separated by a few hours of recovery [40][41][42][43], which may minimise the potential antagonism between transient molecular-level responses that respectively promote endurance and resistance adaptations [44]. Despite such practices being used in the field, few studies to date have adopted such recovery durations.…”

Training load monitoring in elite English soccer: a comparison of practices and perceptions between coaches and practitioners

“…Therefore, this study's aim was to extend the work of Akenhead and Nassis (2016) by comparing training load monitoring practices and perceptions of practitioners and coaches working in elite English soccer. English soccer imposes unique challenges for coaches and practitioners due to high match-play frequency (Enright et al 2017) and extensive Academy player information tracking via the Elite Player Performance Plan; a long-term strategy with the aim of developing more and better home-grown players (www.premierleague.com/youth/EPPP). As such, coaches and practitioners working within elite English soccer represent an ideal population for the gathering of information on training load monitoring.…”