García, Franc Vázquez-Guerrero, Jairo Castellano, Julen Casals, Martí Schelling, Xavi
Published in
Journal of Sports Science & Medicine
The purpose of this study was to compare physical demands between game quarters and specific playing positions during official basketball competition. Thirteen professional male basketball players from the Spanish 2nd Division were monitored across all 17 regular-season home games. Physical demands were analyzed using a local positioning system (WI...
Salazar, Hugo Castellano Paulis, Julen
The purpose of this study was to investigate durations of live-time actions (LA) and stoppages (ST) and to compare the distribution of durations among different levels of competition and quarters. LA and ST have been recorded during 21 official games in four different levels of competition: Under 16-years-old (Spanish U16), 3rd division competition...
Gutiérrez Vargas, Randall Alexis Ugalde Ramírez, José Sánchez Ureña, Braulio Ulloa Sandí, Ana Gutiérrez Vargas, Juan Carlos Rojas Valverde, Daniel
Reaction in team sports involves a series of systemic processes integrating functions to develop a response considering situation, time and space. The aim of this study was to analyze the agreement and reliability of a neuromuscular and cognitive test based on light stimuli to assess integrative reaction time in sports. Fourteen active participants...
López-Martínez, Ana Belén Palao, José Manuel Ortega, Enrique García-de-Alcaraz, Antonio
ABSTRACT The study of the manner of execution (technique, and spatial aspects) can provide useful information to understand the game dynamics in beach volleyball and to obtain references values for the analysis of the game and the establishment of training goals. The aim of the study was to determine the influence of the manner of execution on serv...
Delecroix, Barthélémy Delaval, Benoit Dawson, Brian Berthoin, Serge Dupont, Gregory
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Journal of sports sciences
The aim of this study was to prospectively analyse the relationship between workloads and injury in elite football academy players. Elite football academy players (n = 122) from under-19 (U19) and under-21 (U21) of a professional football team competing in UEFA European Cups were followed during 5 seasons. Injuries were collected and absolute workl...
Mancha Triguero, David María Reina, Belén Baquero García Rubio, Javier Ibáñez Godoy, Sergio José
The current trends in team sports training are based on the reproduction of the specific performance of the game in a non-competitive context. A study of the characteristics of the competition is required to gather the information necessary to design and plan the training. Due to the lack of knowledge of the quantification of the competitive load i...
Nuccio, Ryan P. Barnes, Kelly A. Carter, James M. Baker, Lindsay B.
Published in
Sports Medicine
Sweat losses in team sports can be significant due to repeated bursts of high-intensity activity, as well as the large body size of athletes, equipment and uniform requirements, and environmental heat stress often present during training and competition. In this paper we aimed to: (1) describe sweat losses and fluid balance changes reported in team...
Vanrenterghem, Jos Nedergaard, Niels Jensby Robinson, Mark A. Drust, Barry
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Sports Medicine
There have been considerable advances in monitoring training load in running-based team sports in recent years. Novel technologies nowadays offer ample opportunities to continuously monitor the activities of a player. These activities lead to internal biochemical stresses on the various physiological subsystems; however, they also cause internal me...
Ribeiro, João Silva, Pedro Duarte, Ricardo Davids, Keith Garganta, Júlio
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Sports Medicine
This paper discusses how social network analyses and graph theory can be implemented in team sports performance analyses to evaluate individual (micro) and collective (macro) performance data, and how to use this information for designing practice tasks. Moreover, we briefly outline possible limitations of social network studies and provide suggest...
Memmert, Daniel Lemmink, Koen A. P. M. Sampaio, Jaime
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Sports Medicine
Tactical match performance depends on the quality of actions of individual players or teams in space and time during match-play in order to be successful. Technological innovations have led to new possibilities to capture accurate spatio-temporal information of all players and unravel the dynamics and complexity of soccer matches. The main aim of t...
