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Metabolic Power of Female Footballers in Various Small-Sided Games with Different Pitch Surfaces and Sizes

Small-sided-games (SSGs) seem to be a useful tool for replicating most types of scenarios found in sport competitions, but it is not that clear in female soccer. Game surface and pitch size seem to affect the intensity of SSGs, but no one has yet analysed the influence of these two variables togethe...

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Autores principales: López-Fernández, Jorge, Sánchez-Sánchez, Javier, Gallardo, Leonor, García-Unanue, Jorge
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29910384
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports5020024
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author López-Fernández, Jorge
Sánchez-Sánchez, Javier
Gallardo, Leonor
García-Unanue, Jorge
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Sánchez-Sánchez, Javier
Gallardo, Leonor
García-Unanue, Jorge
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description Small-sided-games (SSGs) seem to be a useful tool for replicating most types of scenarios found in sport competitions, but it is not that clear in female soccer. Game surface and pitch size seem to affect the intensity of SSGs, but no one has yet analysed the influence of these two variables together. The objective of this research was to analyse the metabolic power demands of various SSGs on possession play without goal-keepers, played on three different surfaces. Sixteen sub-elite female players performed three different four-a-side games (400 m(2), 600 m(2), and 800 m(2)) on three different surfaces (ground [GR]; natural grass [NG]; and artificial turf [AT]), recording a total of 96 events. Metabolic variables were recorded through a global positioning system (GPS). The GR condition obtained the lowest outputs for all variables in all of the SSGs. Furthermore, NG resulted in higher outcomes than AT for Average Metabolic Power (SSG 400 [+0.65; p = 0.019]; SSG 600 [+0.70; p = 0.04]); and equivalent distance (SSG 400 [+33.0; p = 0.02]; SSG 600 [+36.53; p = 0.04]). Moreover, SSG 400 obtained lower results than SSG 600 and SSG 800 for both AT and NG. In conclusion, playing on GR reduces the metabolic power of SSGs, While NG seems to be the most suitable surface for attaining highest metabolic responses for sub-elite female players. On the other hand, too big a pitch size may not increase the metabolic demands of the game.
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spelling pubmed-59689972018-06-13 Metabolic Power of Female Footballers in Various Small-Sided Games with Different Pitch Surfaces and Sizes López-Fernández, Jorge Sánchez-Sánchez, Javier Gallardo, Leonor García-Unanue, Jorge Sports (Basel) Article Small-sided-games (SSGs) seem to be a useful tool for replicating most types of scenarios found in sport competitions, but it is not that clear in female soccer. Game surface and pitch size seem to affect the intensity of SSGs, but no one has yet analysed the influence of these two variables together. The objective of this research was to analyse the metabolic power demands of various SSGs on possession play without goal-keepers, played on three different surfaces. Sixteen sub-elite female players performed three different four-a-side games (400 m(2), 600 m(2), and 800 m(2)) on three different surfaces (ground [GR]; natural grass [NG]; and artificial turf [AT]), recording a total of 96 events. Metabolic variables were recorded through a global positioning system (GPS). The GR condition obtained the lowest outputs for all variables in all of the SSGs. Furthermore, NG resulted in higher outcomes than AT for Average Metabolic Power (SSG 400 [+0.65; p = 0.019]; SSG 600 [+0.70; p = 0.04]); and equivalent distance (SSG 400 [+33.0; p = 0.02]; SSG 600 [+36.53; p = 0.04]). Moreover, SSG 400 obtained lower results than SSG 600 and SSG 800 for both AT and NG. In conclusion, playing on GR reduces the metabolic power of SSGs, While NG seems to be the most suitable surface for attaining highest metabolic responses for sub-elite female players. On the other hand, too big a pitch size may not increase the metabolic demands of the game. MDPI 2017-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5968997/ /pubmed/29910384 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports5020024 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_fullStr Metabolic Power of Female Footballers in Various Small-Sided Games with Different Pitch Surfaces and Sizes
title_full_unstemmed Metabolic Power of Female Footballers in Various Small-Sided Games with Different Pitch Surfaces and Sizes
title_short Metabolic Power of Female Footballers in Various Small-Sided Games with Different Pitch Surfaces and Sizes
title_sort metabolic power of female footballers in various small-sided games with different pitch surfaces and sizes
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29910384
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports5020024
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