Female Soccer: Part 1—A Needs Analysis | Semantic Scholar (2024)

Because limb dominance profiles are inconsistent, it is suggested that practitioners increase assessment frequency by integrating limb dominance testing into standard training activities to better understand when changes reflect sport-specific adaptation vs. potential performance or injury ramifications.

The results indicate that strength and conditioning coaches should emphasize the development of absolute and relative lower-body strength with their players to improve power, agility, and speed performance.

In conclusion, PJT is effective in female soccer players for the improvement of vertical jump height and research must identify specific dose–response relationships following PJT, particularly in the long term.

PJT is effective in improving jumping and sprinting performance among young male soccer players, suggesting a greater return from exposure to longer PJT interventions, partially in support for the adoption of a long-term approach to athletic development in young athletes.

New information is provided on the EIMD response in trained females after a sport-specific bout of repeated sprints that has the potential to negatively affect performance for several days after exercise.

Female soccer players during the in-season demonstrated a relatively good level of physical performance which corresponds to their particular training phase and functional fitness intervention appears to be an effective way of improving speed, acceleration, and power performance in elite female soccer players.

The actual peak powervalues obtained in this study were close to the estimated peak power values obtained with the Tufano formula, which may be because of the larger sample size and the same branch used for both equation models.

The results show that acute fatigue from SIT impairs change of direction performance, but performance can be recovered within a few minutes of rest, and coaches can combine fatigue inducing drills and change ofdirection training into same sessions with the right rest interval between the training modes.

...

...

The physical and physiological characteristics of female soccer players are comparable with those of other female games players and are more favourable than average for the population.

An update on the physiology of soccer players and referees, and relevant physiological tests is provided, and examples of effective strength- and endurance-training programmes to improve on-field performance are given.

It is concluded that anthropometric and physiological criteria do have a role as part of a holistic monitoring of talented young players, and fitness profiling can generate a useful database against which talented groups may be compared.

Division I athletes demonstrated different sagittal-plane mechanics than Division III athletes, which may facilitate improved performance and correlate with the consistent incidence of anterior cruciate ligament injury across divisions.

It is concluded that for soccer players, maximal oxygen uptake should be expressed in relation to body mass raised to the power of 0.75 and maximal strength in relationTo evaluate maximal aerobic capacity when running and strength capacity among players with different body mass.

This study indicates that individuals with greater CM performance also have quicker agility times and suggests that training predominantly in the vertical domain may also yield improvements in certain types of agility performance, even if such agility performance requires a horizontal component.

New developments in understanding adaptive processes to the circulatory system and endurance performance as well as nerve and muscle adaptations to training and performance have given rise to more effective training interventions.

It is demonstrated that all players have high HR throughout a competitive game with periods of near-maximal values, the distance covered by HIR during match play is closely related to the physical capacity, and the Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test can be used as an indicator of the physical match performance of elite female players.

The PT-test can be used to evaluate a soccer player's technical skills under conditions similar to intense periods of a soccer game.

The hypothesis that the combination of multiple-injury prevention-training components into a comprehensive program improves measures of performance and movement biomechanics is supported.

...

...