Kersten, A.W. (Anna) (2015) Comparing intended and observed training load with perceived training load and their explaining variables; the coaches’ blind spot. thesis, Sport Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
To achieve short term and long-term objectives of a professional youth soccer academy careful planning of a training program is required. Therefore, coaches apply a progressive build up in the training load using the concept of periodization. Previous research showed a discrepancy between the training load intended by the coach and perceived training load by players. If coaches are able to better estimate this after training is not yet known. Furthermore, there is no clear explanation for the discrepancy between intended, observed and perceived training load. Therefore, the aim of this study is to define the relation between intended and observed training load by the coach and perceived training load by the player and to study the influence of intermittent endurance capacity, stage of maturation and training characteristics (PlayerLoad and TRIMPmod) on the intended and observed training load by the coach. During two mesocycles of 4 weeks (November and March) intended (RIE), observed (ROE) and perceived (RPE) exertion, PlayerLoad and TRIMPmod were monitored of 31 young elite soccer players. Interval Shuttle Run Test (ISRT) and age at peak height velocity (APHV) were determined for all players. The correlation between RIE and ROE was strong (r=.84; p<0.01) while the correlations between RIE and RPE (r=.58; p<0.01) and ROE and RPE (r=.64; p<0.01) were moderate. Multilevel analyses resulted in PlayerLoad and ISRT as predictors of RIE and ROE. Thus, coaches base their rate of intended and observed exertion on what they expect the players to do on the field, and what they actually do on the field (PlayerLoad), and they consider the intermittent endurance capacity of individual players. PlayerLoad, TRIMPmod and ISRT were predictors for perceived exertion of the players (RPE). Providing coaches with feedback about PlayerLoad, TRIMPmod and RPE may give better insight in the actual training load of individual players. This may help to adapt the training program and thereby optimize performance. Keywords: Soccer, periodization, internal training load, external training load, multilevel analyses, monitoring, adolescent soccer players, soccer coach
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Brink, dr. M.S. and Frencken, dr. W.G.P. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2022 09:25 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2022 09:25 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3092 |
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