COVID-19 Lockdown: A Global Study Investigating the Effect of Athletes’ Sport Classification and Sex on Training Practices

• DOI: 10.1123/ijspp.2021-0543
• Publication Date: 2022-07-11T08:54:08Z
• Authors: Jad Adrian Washif; Øyvind Sandbakk; Stephen Seiler; Thomas Haugen; Abdulaziz Farooq; Ken Quarrie; Dina C. Janse van...; Isabel Krug; Evert Verhagen; Del P. Wong; Iñigo Mujika; Cristina Cortis; Monoem Haddad; Omid Ahmadian; Mahmood Al Jufaili; Ramzi A. Al-Horani; Abdulla Saeed Al-...; Asma Aloui; Achraf Ammar; Fitim Arifi; Abdul Rashid Aziz; Mikhail Batuev; Christopher Marty...; Ralph Beneke; Arben Bici; Pallawi Bishnoi; Lone Bogwasi; Daniel Bok; Omar Boukhris; Daniel Boullosa; Nicola Bragazzi; Joao Brito; Roxana Paola Pala...; Anis Chaouachi; Stephen S. Cheung; Hamdi Chtourou; Germina Cosma; Tadej Debevec; Matthew D. DeLang; Alexandre Dellal; Gürhan Dönmez; Tarak Driss; Juan David Peña D...; Cristiano Eirale; Mohamed Elloumi; Carl Foster; Emerson Franchini; Andrea Fusco; Olivier Galy; Paul B. Gastin; Nicholas Gill; Olivier Girard; Cvita Gregov; Shona Halson; Omar Hammouda; Ivana Hanzlíková; Bahar Hassanmirzaei; Kim Hébert-Losier; Hussein Muñoz Helú; Tomás Herrera-Val...; Florentina J. Het...; Louis Holtzhausen; Olivier Hue; Antonio Dello Iacono; Johanna K. Ihalainen; Carl James; Saju Joseph; Karim Kamoun; Mehdi Khaled; Karim Khalladi; Kwang Joon Kim; Lian-Yee Kok; Lewis MacMillan; Leonardo Jose Mat...; Ryo Matsunaga; Shpresa Memishi; Grégoire P. Millet; Imen Moussa-Chamari; Danladi Ibrahim Musa; Hoang Minh Thuan ...; Pantelis T. Nikol...; Adam Owen; Johnny Padulo; Jeffrey Cabayan P...; Nirmala Panagodag...; Jorge Pérez-Gómez; Lervasen Pillay; Arporn Popa; Avishkar Pudasaini; Alizera Rabbani; Tandiyo Rahayu; Mohamed Romdhani; Paul Salamh; Abu-Sufian Sarkar; Andy Schillinger; Heny Setyawati; Navina Shrestha; Fatona Suraya; Montassar Tabben; Khaled Trabelsi; Axel Urhausen; Maarit Valtonen; Johanna Weber; Rodney Whiteley; Adel Zrane; Yacine Zerguini; Piotr Zmijewski; Helmi Ben Saad; David B. Pyne; Lee Taylor; Karim Chamari
• Keywords: Endurance Training

To investigate differences in athletes' knowledge, beliefs, and training practices during COVID-19 lockdowns with reference to sport classification sex. This work extends an initial descriptive evaluation focusing on athlete classification.Athletes (12,526; 66% male; 142 countries) completed online survey (May-July 2020) assessing toward training. Sports were classified as team sports (45%), endurance (20%), power/technical (10%), combat (9%), aquatic (6%), recreational (4%), racquet (3%), precision (2%), parasports (1%), others (1%). Further analysis by sex was performed.During lockdown, athletes practiced body-weight-based exercises routinely (67% females 64% males), ranging from 50% (precision) 78% (parasports). More sport-specific technical skills performed combat, parasports, (∼50%) than other (∼35%). Most (range: [parasports] 75% [endurance]) cardiorespiratory (trivial differences). Compared prelockdown, perceived intensity reduced 29% 41%, depending (largest decline: ∼38% sports, unaffected sex). Some 7%-49%) maintained their for strength, endurance, speed, plyometric, change-of-direction, Athletes who previously trained ≥5 sessions per week volume 18%-28%) lockdown. The proportion of (81%) ≥60 min/session 31% 43% Males had comparable moderate levels knowledge (56% vs 58%) beliefs/attitudes (54% 56%).Changes sport-specific, few or no differences. Team-based generally more susceptible changes individual sports. Policy makers should provide specific arrangements educational resources facilitate remote and/or home-based lockdown-type events.