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Running Performance of Male Versus Female Players in Australian Football Matches: A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND: Australian Football is a fast paced, intermittent sport, played by both male and female populations. The aim of this systematic review was to compare male and female Australian Football players, competing at elite and sub-elite levels, for running performance during Australian Football m...

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Autores principales: Wing, Christopher, Hart, Nicolas H., McCaskie, Callum, Djanis, Petar, Ma’ayah, Fadi, Nosaka, Kazunori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8685186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34923616
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-021-00391-x
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Hart, Nicolas H.
McCaskie, Callum
Djanis, Petar
Ma’ayah, Fadi
Nosaka, Kazunori
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Hart, Nicolas H.
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Djanis, Petar
Ma’ayah, Fadi
Nosaka, Kazunori
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description BACKGROUND: Australian Football is a fast paced, intermittent sport, played by both male and female populations. The aim of this systematic review was to compare male and female Australian Football players, competing at elite and sub-elite levels, for running performance during Australian Football matches based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). METHODS: Medline, SPORTDiscus, and Web of Science searches, using search terms inclusive of Australian Football, movement demands and microsensor technology, returned 2535 potential manuscripts, of which 33 were included in the final analyses. RESULTS: Results indicated that male athletes performed approximately twice the total running distances of their female counterparts, which was likely due to the differences in quarter length (male elite = 20 min, female elite = 15 min (plus time-on). When expressed relative to playing time, the differences between males and females somewhat diminished. However, high-speed running distances covered at velocities > 14.4 km·h(−1) (> 4 m·s(−1)) were substantially greater (≥ 50%) for male than female players. Male and female players recorded similar running intensities during peak periods of play of shorter duration (e.g., around 1 min), but when the analysis window was lengthened, females showed a greater decrement in running performance. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that male players should be exposed to greater training volumes, whereas training intensities should be reasonably comparable across male and female athletes.
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spelling pubmed-86851862022-01-04 Running Performance of Male Versus Female Players in Australian Football Matches: A Systematic Review Wing, Christopher Hart, Nicolas H. McCaskie, Callum Djanis, Petar Ma’ayah, Fadi Nosaka, Kazunori Sports Med Open Systematic Review BACKGROUND: Australian Football is a fast paced, intermittent sport, played by both male and female populations. The aim of this systematic review was to compare male and female Australian Football players, competing at elite and sub-elite levels, for running performance during Australian Football matches based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). METHODS: Medline, SPORTDiscus, and Web of Science searches, using search terms inclusive of Australian Football, movement demands and microsensor technology, returned 2535 potential manuscripts, of which 33 were included in the final analyses. RESULTS: Results indicated that male athletes performed approximately twice the total running distances of their female counterparts, which was likely due to the differences in quarter length (male elite = 20 min, female elite = 15 min (plus time-on). When expressed relative to playing time, the differences between males and females somewhat diminished. However, high-speed running distances covered at velocities > 14.4 km·h(−1) (> 4 m·s(−1)) were substantially greater (≥ 50%) for male than female players. Male and female players recorded similar running intensities during peak periods of play of shorter duration (e.g., around 1 min), but when the analysis window was lengthened, females showed a greater decrement in running performance. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that male players should be exposed to greater training volumes, whereas training intensities should be reasonably comparable across male and female athletes. Springer International Publishing 2021-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8685186/ /pubmed/34923616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-021-00391-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Nosaka, Kazunori
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