Staying on the ball during COVID-19 pandemic: impact on training modalities in football players

Schüttler, Dominik; Hamm, Wolfgang; Krammer, Simone; Steffen, Julius; Deuster, Eileen; Lauseker, Michael; Egger, F.; Meyer, Tim; Brunner, Stefan

doi:10.23736/s0022-4707.21.12256-x

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“…To reduce the detraining effects and to carry out an optimal and safe return to sports training and competitions, a progressive and well-structured exercise program following the lockdown is essential [13]. Athletes usually trained at home DL, focusing on bodyweight-based and weightlifting strength training, as well as cardiovascular endurance conditioning [9,11,35]. However, home-exercise programs (characterized by limited equipment and facilities) do not provide enough stimuli to replicate the conditions of real competitions and usually lead to irregular training loads and a reduction in strength and general fitness levels [2,7,9,11,12,19,36,37].…”

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A Study on the Injury Rate of Spanish Competitive Athletes as a Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown

Prieto-Fresco

Medina-Rebollo

Gavira

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The COVID-19 lockdown may have had collateral effects on the conditions of athletes, with possible increases in injury risks upon the return to sports. Due to the existence of multiple factors of injury risks based on the lockdown and the return to sports, the aim of this study was to analyze the injury rates after the lockdown in competitive athletes. A non-experimental quantitative design based on a survey was carried out, and 94 athletes (42 males and 52 females; 23.57 ± 6.20 years) participated. Statistical analyses were carried out using non-parametric tests. Injury rates did not increase significantly after the lockdown, and there were no statistical differences between performance levels, types of sports, the design of a specific training program by sports professionals during the lockdown, the moment of injury, and the mechanism of injury. It is important to develop injury prevention protocols to prepare athletes after such a long period of detraining.

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A Study on the Injury Rate of Spanish Competitive Athletes as a Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown

Prieto-Fresco

Medina-Rebollo

Gavira

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“…However, compared to a control group or other sports disciplines (weightlifting athletes) practicing CrossFit ® seems to be a positive relation with more physical activity during the lockdown period ( Cataldi et al, 2021 ; Meier et al, 2022a ). In other types of sports, reduced training behavior occurred during the pandemic period, for example, among Spanish basketball players ( Lorenzo Calvo et al, 2021 ), or reduced training time on the ball among Austrian soccer players ( Schüttler et al, 2021 ). Interestingly, the results suggest that the training habits of most CrossFit ® athletes remained unchanged during the lockdown period and that online training increased in importance across all age groups in contrast to other sports, for example, in amateur golf ( Huth and Billion, 2021 ).…”

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Physiological effects of regular CrossFit® training and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic—A systematic review

2023

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CrossFit® is a functional fitness training program known for its day-to-day varying “Workouts of the Day” (WOD). In accordance with the ‘CrossFit® Level 1 Training Guide’, regular CrossFit® training sessions consist of Warm-up, Mobility, Skill/Power training, WOD, and Cool-down. Despite the fast-growing and widespread popularity, data on the practical implementation of the training program based on scientific evidence are rare. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to systematically review the existing literature on the physiological effects of regular CrossFit® training in full extent instead of stand-alone WODs and to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the training behavior of CrossFit® athletes. A systematic search was conducted following the PRISMA guidelines in April 2022 and updated in July 2022 using the following databases: PubMed, SPORTDiscus, Scopus, and Web of Science. Using the keyword “CrossFit”, 1,264 records were found. Based on the eligibility criteria, 12 studies are included and separated by topics: acute-short term physiological response (n = 8), and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (n = 4). The results show that studies of regular training sessions were rarely conducted and contradicted the existing knowledge of the physiological demands [e.g., heart rate (HR)] of CrossFit®. In detail, included studies demonstrate that training sessions last 30–60 min and provide a progressive increase in cardiovascular load up to maximal effort activity (>90% HRmax), differing from stand-alone WODs exclusively at high-intensity. Also, scarce research exists on COVID-19-pandemic-induced effects on training behavior, and studies are of moderate to low quality. There is still a lack of comprehensive analyses on the acute physiological effects of regular training sessions and the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the scientific literature. Moreover, the inconsistent terminology used in CrossFit® research complicates generalized conclusions. Therefore, future research on the training methodology of CrossFit® needs to overcome terminological inequalities and examine scientifically the implementation of the concept by considering regular training sessions under practical settings.

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“…Topics describing the relationship between training load and performance, which were found in the performance research area during the pre-COVID-19 period, have been partially transformed into keyword clusters linking training load to injury ( Bache-Mathiesen et al, 2022 ). The risk of injury is also inevitable because of the increased training time during the pandemic, and the cluster of topics related to injury experiences and concerns may also reflect the temporal nature of the pandemic ( Schuttler et al, 2022 ). In addition, clusters containing keywords about returning from injury and athletes returning after the pandemic are not conclusions based on experiments or surveys but rather topics that can be expected to be the subject of further research ( Ross et al, 2021 ; Maestro et al, 2022 ).…”

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Soccer’s AI transformation: deep learning’s analysis of soccer’s pandemic research evolution

Lee,

Song,

Kim

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThis paper aims to identify and compare changes in trends and research interests in soccer articles from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsWe compared research interests and trends in soccer-related journal articles published before COVID-19 (2018–2020) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021–2022) using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) topic modeling.ResultsIn both periods, we categorized the social sciences into psychology, sociology, business, and technology, with some interdisciplinary research topics identified, and we identified changes during the COVID-19 pandemic period, including a new approach to home advantage. Furthermore, Sports science and sports medicine had a vast array of subject areas and topics, but some similar themes emerged in both periods and found changes before and during COVID-19. These changes can be broadly categorized into (a) Social Sciences and Technology; (b) Performance training approaches; (c) injury part of body. With training topics being more prominent than match performance during the pandemic; and changes within injuries, with the lower limbs becoming more prominent than the head during the pandemic.ConclusionNow that the pandemic has ended, soccer environments and routines have returned to pre-pandemic levels, but the environment that have changed during the pandemic provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in the field of soccer to detect post-pandemic changes and identify trends and future directions for research.

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Staying on the ball during COVID-19 pandemic: impact on training modalities in football players

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

A Study on the Injury Rate of Spanish Competitive Athletes as a Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown

A Study on the Injury Rate of Spanish Competitive Athletes as a Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown

Physiological effects of regular CrossFit® training and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic—A systematic review

Soccer’s AI transformation: deep learning’s analysis of soccer’s pandemic research evolution

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