Well-being issues: Its influence on RPE and enjoyment in masters water polo training and the player–coach gap

Corrado Lupo, Damiano Li Volsi, Paolo Riccardo Brustio and Alexandru Nicolae Ungureanu

PLOS ONE, 2026, vol. 21, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: The present study aimed to monitor male master water polo players’ training by means of well-being (Hooper-Index), internal training load (ITL) parameters (rating of perceived exertion, RPE; session-RPE), and rate of enjoyment, for different types of training (i.e., swimming, SW; technical and tactical, TTW; training matches, TM; friendly matches; FM). Seventeen male master water polo players (age: 50 ± 12 years) performed 19 ± 7 sessions and reported Hooper-Index scores in the morning of training day, and RPE (CR-10) and rate of enjoyment after sessions. Linear mixed effects models were applied to quantify whether players’ RPE, session-RPE, and rate of enjoyment were: (i) different for type of training session, (ii) affected by pre-session well-being, and (iii) correlated to corresponding coach’s estimations. FM was the training type with the highest session-RPE (p

Date: 2026
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