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- Title
The influence of age on the match-to-match variability of physical performance in women’s elite football.
- Authors
Baptista, Ivan; Winther, Andreas K.; Pedersen, Sigurd; Johansen, Dag; Pettersen, Svein Arne
- Abstract
Introduction: The fluctuation of external match load throughout a season is influenced by several contextual factors. While some, have been deeply analysed in men’s football literature, information is lacking on how other contextual elements, such as player’s age or experience, may affect the match-to-match variability of locomotor activities. In fact, aging has been described as a multifactorial process with the potential to affect human performance. The aim of this study is to assess if the variability of match locomotor performances fluctuates according to the players’ age. Methods: 59 female players from four top-level clubs were divided into three age groups and monitored during two seasons using GPS APEX (STATSports, Northern Ireland), with a sampling frequency of 10Hz, in 150 official matches to determine the coefficient of variation (CV) of full-match and 1-min peak locomotor demands of total distance (TD), high-speed running distance, sprint distance (SpD), accelerations, and decelerations. To test whether there was a group effect of age on match-to-match variability we used a one-way ANOVA with CV% as the independent variable. Results: CV values of full match variables ranged from 3.8% to 27.8%, with total distance (3.8%) in the peak age group and SpD (27.8%) in the pre-peak age group. Similarly, CV values of 1-min peaks ranged from 4.1% (post-peak group) in TD to 22.3% (peak group) in SpD. Discussion: The main finding was that there were no significant differences between the different age groups in the metrics analysed although trends indicate less variability in the post-peak age group.
- Subjects
NORTHERN Ireland; PHYSICAL mobility; AGE groups; LONG-distance running; ONE-way analysis of variance; AGE
- Publication
Frontiers in Physiology, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1664-042X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fphys.2023.1193501