Background Understanding soccer players' match-related fatigue and recovery profiles likely
helps with developing conditioning programs that increase team performance and reduce …

In elite soccer, players are frequently required to play consecutive matches interspersed by
3 days and complete physical performance recovery may not be achieved. Incomplete …

The purpose of this study was to examine, first, the movement actions performed during two
different small-sided games and, second, their effects on a series of field endurance and …

Sports performance is generally considered to be governed by a range of interacting
physiological, biomechanical, and psychological variables, amongst others. Despite sports …

There is a substantial body of evidence indicating that exercise prior to the pubertal growth
spurt stimulates bone growth and skeletal muscle hypertrophy to a greater degree than …

Muscle physiologists often describe fatigue simply as a decline of muscle force and infer this
causes an athlete to slow down. In contrast, exercise scientists describe fatigue during sport …

Good kicking technique is an important aspect of a soccer player. Therefore, understanding
the biomechanics of soccer kicking is particularly important for guiding and monitoring the …

Abstract Fanchini, M, Azzalin, A, Castagna, C, Schena, F, McCall, A, and Impellizzeri, FM.
Effect of bout duration on exercise intensity and technical performance of small-sided games …

Quadriceps muscle strains frequently occur in sports that require repetitive kicking and
sprinting, and are common in football in its different forms around the world. This paper is a …

A newly developed bone-specific physical activity questionnaire (BPAQ) was compared with
other common measures of physical activity for its ability to predict parameters of bone …