Soccer helps build strong bones during growth: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Lozano-Berges, Gabriel; Matute-Llorente, Ángel; González-Agüero, Alejandro; Gómez-Bruton, Alejandro; Gómez-Cabello, Alba; Vicente-Rodríguez, Germán

doi:10.1007/s00431-017-3060-3

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“…Football is also a suitable means to improve fitness and health in children. The developing organism is exposed to important stimuli targeting particularly the cardiovascular and the musculoskeletal systems as well as metabolism [ 11 , 12 , 13 ]. Various studies showed that playing football leads to increased physical fitness and considerable health benefits.…”

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Structure, Intensity and Player Duels in Under-13 Football Training in Switzerland

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Bächle

et al. 2020

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We evaluated the structure (i.e., the different training parts), contents (i.e., the various activities used), intensity and occurrence of contact situations and headers during training sessions in under-13 football in Switzerland. A total of 242 players from 20 different teams on average aged 11.4 (SD 0.7) years participated. The participants were filmed during a typical training session while they were equipped with a heart rate sensor. The sessions were systematically recorded to allow for detailed analyses. Furthermore, a preliminary and explorative analysis of the influence of the level of play on these results was conducted. The overall findings indicated that training included 33.4% playing forms, 29.5% training forms, 28.4% inactivity time and 8.7% athletics. The highest heart rates were achieved in the playing forms (166 min−1, 83% HRmax) compared to the other two activities (training forms 154 min−1, 77% HRmax; athletics 150 min−1, 75% HRmax). Each player had 12.8 duels and 0.6 headers per training. Overall, most duels were conducted from the anterior direction. Playing forms induce higher cardio-circulatory load as well as a better learning environment. Potentially dangerous situations like contact with other players or headers occurred in a single player on average every six min during a training session.

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Structure, Intensity and Player Duels in Under-13 Football Training in Switzerland

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Roth

Bächle

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“…Focusing on impact it has been widely demonstrated that sports that entail high impacts improve bone mass [24][25][26], and those reviews that included a variety of sports always found that athletes involved in high impact sports presented higher bone values when compared to non-impact sports [27,28].…”

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The muscle-bone unit in adolescent swimmers

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“…Low levels of PA and sedentarism have been associated with the onset of different pathologies and health problems [6,7]. Numerous studies have demonstrated that doing regular PA is beneficial for body composition [8][9][10], bone health [11,12], psychological health and stress [13,14], and cardiorespiratory capacity, among others [15][16][17][18]. The prevalence of these illnesses is still increasing, leading to greater morbidity and mortality, and the consequent urgent need to implement effective PA programs to reduce the sedentary behavior of the population [19].…”

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Lack of Association between the Reasons for and Time Spent Doing Physical Activity

Domínguez-Amorós

Chueca

2020

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Low levels of Physical Activity (PA) and sedentarism are associated with the onset of different pathologies and health problems. Regular physical activity has been linked with being beneficial to the health of the general population. Within this framework of analysis, the aim of the present study was to analyze the association between the time spent doing physical activity and the expressed motives for doing so, from which the innovative aspect of the paper emerges: the use of the time spent doing PA as a study variable of the phenomenon. The data analyzed come from the latest special Eurobarometer survey about the sport and physical activity done in Europe. Using an exploratory factorial analysis and a structural equations model, a six-dimensional factorial model was found that explains the reasons for doing PA, demonstrating that there is no relationship between the reasons for and time spent doing PA. The motivation is not a variable that explains the time spent doing PA, and another type of variable must be used to explain the phenomenon if PA is to be incentivized. Weaknesses of the study are that it works with individuals as a group and that the fundamental dependence on age is not introduced, which could determine interest in practicing PA. Similarly, the impact of the conditions of implementing PA, education, and family history should also be introduced into the model.

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Soccer helps build strong bones during growth: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Cited by 39 publications

References 50 publications

Structure, Intensity and Player Duels in Under-13 Football Training in Switzerland

Structure, Intensity and Player Duels in Under-13 Football Training in Switzerland

The muscle-bone unit in adolescent swimmers

Lack of Association between the Reasons for and Time Spent Doing Physical Activity

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