In-season training responses and perceived wellbeing and recovery status in professional soccer players

Nuno Mateus, Bruno Gonçalves, Jose Luis Felipe, Javier Sánchez-Sánchez, Jorge Garcia-Unanue, Anthony Weldon and Jaime Sampaio

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 7, 1-13

Abstract: This study aimed to describe professional soccer players’ training responses during a competitive season and to investigate the relationship between these responses with wellbeing and recovery indices. Thirteen professional soccer players from the same Spanish Second Division team were monitored during a sixteen-week in-season period. Players’ external loads were analyzed using global positioning measurement units (GPS). Additionally, subjective reporting of sleep quality, sleep duration, fatigue, muscle soreness, and stress were assessed with a customized wellness questionnaire at the beginning of each training session. A two-step cluster analysis identified profiles of different training responses generally described as lower-demand sessions, intermediate-demand sessions, running-based sessions, and sprint-based sessions; which were discriminated by different total distance covered and high-intensity actions. Interestingly, no probabilistic interactions were found between these training responses with wellbeing and recovery markers (i.e., Bayes factor

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254655

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