Beute, S. (Stef) (2016) Optimizing the relationship between coaches’ and players’ perceptions of training load: development and application of feedback to soccer coaches. thesis, Sport Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
Purpose: The aim of present study was to develop and apply a feedback format to coaches, to investigate the influence of feedback on the relationship between intended and perceived training load. Furthermore, the role of age and training intensity was studied. Method: A quasi experimental study design was conducted with a feedback intervention and pre- and post-measurements. Ratings of Perceived Exertion (RPE), duration (minutes), total distance (kilometres), average speed (kilometres per hour), number of sprints, distance >14.4 km/h (kilometres), TRIMP scores and time >85% maximal heartrate (minutes) were collected of 20 U15 (age 14.2±.6; height 165.7±6.8; weight 49.8±6.8) and 12 U23 (age 20.3±1.5; height 180.5±4.8; weight 74.8±6.6) elite soccer players. Coaches filled in the Rating of Intended Exertion (RIE) before- and the Rating of Observed Exertion (ROE) after the training session for all individual players. Players rated RPE after each training session. Results: The average discrepancy between RIE and RPE in the no feedback and feedback period in both teams combined was 1.40±1.10 and 0.90±0.77 (507 ratings), in the U15 team 1.63±1.14 and 0.85±0.78 (276 ratings), and in the U23 team 1.14±0.98 and 1.09±0.91 (231 ratings). The agreement between RIE and RPE in both teams combined improved significantly in the feedback period (t=5.87, p<.001). Furthermore, an improved agreement was found in the U15 team (F=14.8, p<.001), but not in the U23 team. Easy sessions were perceived as harder while hard sessions were perceived as less hard in the period without feedback. In the feedback period, easy and hard sessions were not perceived different. Conclusions: The results indicate that feedback could improve the coaches’ ability to estimate the perceived training load of the players, but only in the younger team. Initial discrepancies in easy and hard sessions disappeared after providing feedback to coaches. Feedback reports that contain both external and internal load variables may assist in the process of periodization, and ultimately optimize the development and performance of players. Keywords: Periodization, internal training load, external training load, rpe, monitoring, intensity, perception
| 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: | 20 Apr 2022 09:53 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2022 09:53 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3123 |
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