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01-11-2015 | Original Article

The effect of concurrent training organisation in youth elite soccer players

Authors: Kevin Enright, James Morton, John Iga, Barry Drust

Published in: European Journal of Applied Physiology | Issue 11/2015

Abstract

Purpose

This study compared the adaptive responses to two concurrent training programmes frequently used in professional soccer.

Methods

Fifteen youth soccer players (17.3 ± 1.6 years, 1.82 ± 0.06 m, 77.0 ± 7.3 kg; VO₂ peak, 62.0 ± 4.7 ml⁻¹ kg⁻¹ min⁻¹) who compete in the English Premier League volunteered for this study. In addition to completing their habitual training practices, the participants were asked to alter the organisation concurrent training by performing strength (S) training either prior to (S + E, n = 8) or after (E + S, n = 7) soccer-specific endurance training (E) 2d wk⁻¹ for 5 wk⁻¹.

Results

With the exception of 30 m sprint, IMVC PF, quadriceps strength (60°/s^CON, 180°/s^CON, 120°/s^ECC) pooled data revealed training effects across all other performances measures (P < 0.05). Whilst ANCOVA indicated no significant interaction effects for training condition, the difference between the means divided by the pooled standard deviation demonstrated large effect sizes in the E + S condition for in HBS 1-RM [S + E vs E + S; −0.54 (9.6 %) vs −1.79 (19.6 %)], AoP-M [−0.72 (7.9 %) vs −1.76 (14.4 %)], SJ [−0.56, (4.4 %), vs −1.08, (8.1 %)], IMVC-LR; [−0.50, (20.3 %) vs −1.05 (27.3 %)], isokinetic hamstring strength 60°/s ^CON [−0.64, (12.2 %) vs −0.95 (19.2 %)], 120°/s^ECC [−0.78 (27.9 %) vs −1.55 (23.3 %)] and isokinetic quadriceps strength 180°/s ^CON [−0.23 (2.5 %) vs −1.52 (13.2 %)].

Conclusion

Results suggest the organisation of concurrent training, recovery time allocated between training bouts and the availability nutrition may be able to modulate small but clinically significant changes in physical performance parameters associated with match-play. This may have practical implications for practitioners who prescribe same day concurrent training protocols.

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Title: The effect of concurrent training organisation in youth elite soccer players
Authors: Kevin Enright
James Morton
John Iga
Barry Drust
Publication date: 01-11-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Journal of Applied Physiology / Issue 11/2015
Print ISSN: 1439-6319
Electronic ISSN: 1439-6327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-015-3218-5

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The effect of concurrent training organisation in youth elite soccer players

Abstract

Purpose

Methods

Results

Conclusion

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Results

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