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- Title
EFFECT OF TRAINING LOAD ON ACUTE FATIGUE AND WELLNESS DURING AN IN-SEASON NON-COMPETITIVE WEEK IN ELITE RUGBY ATHLETES.
- Authors
Tavares, Francisco; Healey, Phil; Smith, Tiaki Brett; Driller, Matthew
- Abstract
Background: Training adaptations will occur from the balance between training load and recovery. Therefore, it is critical to understand the effects of training load on the levels of fatigue and readiness of athletes. Aim: The aim of this study was to understand the effect of training load on acute fatigue and wellness during an in-season non-competitive week in elite rugby athletes. Methods: The training load, perceptual and neuromuscular fatigue of sixteen elite rugby athletes was monitored every morning during a non-competitive week within the in-season period of the Super Rugby competition. Training load was obtained from GPS during the field sessions, and from individual RPE for the extra conditioning and gym sessions. Perceptual fatigue was obtained every morning from a 5-item questionnaire (WQ) and a questionnaire on the muscle soreness (SQ) at 9 different muscle sites. Neuromuscular fatigue was measured using a countermovement jump. Results: Although training day 3 had a significantly (p<0.05) greater load in comparison to training days 1 and 2, there was a greater effect of training load on muscle soreness and neuromuscular performance when two training days were performed consecutively. Moreover, the effect of training load on muscle soreness was only evident in lower body muscles. Data from the present study also suggest that two days off training are adequate for complete recovery from a high-load training week in rugby athletes. Conclusion: There was a clear effect of training load on fatigue, with greater fatigue occurring when training took place on two consecutive days. Monitoring soreness from different lower body muscle sites was demonstrated to add important information for practitioners.
- Subjects
MUSCLE fatigue; RUGBY football players; RUGBY football training
- Publication
New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine, 2017, Vol 44, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0110-6384
- Publication type
Abstract