Variations of Training Workload in Micro- and Meso-Cycles Based on Position in Elite Young Soccer Players: A Competition Season Study

• DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.668145
• Publication Date: 2021-04-29T09:56:03Z
• Authors: Hadi Nobari; Reyhaneh Vahabide...; Jorge Pérez-Gómez; Luca Paolo Ardigò
• Keywords: Team sport; Elite; Perceived exertion; Match play

The objectives of this study were to quantify the matches and training workload in micro-cycles an elite young soccer team considering field position explain meso-cycles based on change weekly acute (wAWL), chronic load (wCWL), acute-to-chronic ratio, monotony (wTM), strain (wTS) between early-, mid-, end-season periods playing whole team. Twenty-six under-16 players participated study, including six wide defenders midfielders (WM), five central (CD) midfielders, four strikers (ST). Daily monitoring was performed by for 20 weeks with rating perceived exertion using Borg CR-10 scale. In comparison early-season, results showed that there a significant increase, all positions, wAWL wCWL (except ST) wTM CD compared end-season. On other hand, reductions wTS CD, WM, ST at According results, coaches should consider different situations. Differences can be good guide coaches, who have special understanding what causes most programs. Excessive potentially cause injury adolescent athletes controlling prevent this.