Effects of Game Weekly Frequency on Subjective Training Load, Wellness, and Injury Rate in Male Elite Soccer Players

Rim Sioud, Raouf Hammami, Javier Gene-Morales, Alvaro Juesas, Juan C. Colado and Roland van den Tillaar ()
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Rim Sioud: Tunisian Research Laboratory “Sports Performance Optimization”, National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports (CNMSS), Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Ksar Said, Manouba University, Tunis 2010, Tunisia
Raouf Hammami: Tunisian Research Laboratory “Sports Performance Optimization”, National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports (CNMSS), Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Ksar Said, Manouba University, Tunis 2010, Tunisia
Javier Gene-Morales: Research Group Prevention and Health in Exercise and Sport (PHES), University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Alvaro Juesas: Research Group Prevention and Health in Exercise and Sport (PHES), University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Juan C. Colado: Research Group Prevention and Health in Exercise and Sport (PHES), University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Roland van den Tillaar: Department of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, Nord University, 7601 Levanger, Norway

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: To compare the effects of playing one or two games per week on subjective perceived exertion (RPE) and (RPE-based) training load, monotony index, sleep, stress, fatigue, and muscle soreness (Hooper index), total mood disturbance, and injury rate in elite soccer players. Fourteen males from a first-division soccer club (age: 24.42 ± 4.80 years) competed in two games per week for six weeks and one game per week for twelve weeks (a total of 24 games). Paired t -tests and non-parametric Wilcoxon signed ranks evaluated the significance of the differences ( p < 0.05). The main findings were that RPE was significantly larger when playing two games per week compared with one game. However, subject total and mean training load, mood disturbance, monotony, and subjective perception of sleep, stress, fatigue, muscle soreness monitoring (Hooper index), and the number of injuries were not different. The findings suggested that competing in two matches per week does not negatively influence injury rate and players’ perceptions of training load or wellness, even though players perceive two games per week as more physically demanding compared with one game per week.

Keywords: matches per week; rate of perceived exertion (RPE); profile of mood states (POMS); Hooper index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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