Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of two warm-up modalities (scheduled before a soccer match) on short-term maximal performance and physiological responses in soccer players. Twenty soccer players (Age = 22.1 ± 4.4 years; Height = 183.2 ± 7.1 cm, Body mass = 77.6 ± 8.5 kg) participated in this study. They randomly performed two different pre-match warm-up protocols on separate days with different excitation order component sequences where the last component of the warm-up excitation sequence was imputed completed either in the middle (WU-1), or at the end of the warm-up (WU-2). During the completion of the warm-up, heart rate (HR), and ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) were recorded. After the warm-up, participants performed a repeated sprint ability test (RSA) and the five jump (5JT) test. The results revealed no significant differences in WU-1 and the WU-2 for HR and RPE. In WU-2 condition, significant differences in the 7th acceleration phase of the repeated 10 m sprint (S7) (p < 0.05) was observed in comparison to WU-1. Likewise, the performance of 5JT (p < 0.05), and the 10-m of the RSA (p < 0.05) increased to WU-2 in comparison with WU-1. In conclusion, we recommended performing warm-up at the end of pre-match rather than in the middle to ameliorate the performance of soccer players during the competition.
Highlights
Warm-up is considered an essential factor to prevent athletes from muscular injury and to improve performance (Gracielle et al, 2007)
The statistical analysis revealed that physiological parameters (i.e., ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) and heart rate (HR)) were unaffected after the two warm-up protocols (i.e., WU-1 and WU-2) (p < 0.05)
Our results showed that performance of the five jump test increased significantly (p < 0.05) after the WU-2 with ICC for this analysis (~0.87)
Summary
Warm-up is considered an essential factor to prevent athletes from muscular injury and to improve performance (Gracielle et al, 2007). Soccer requires high-intensity intermittent efforts (Fradkin, 2002) that include many sprints of different durations, rapid accelerations and decelerations, jumping, agility, etc It seems that soccer needs an active warm-up. Most active warm-up routines integrate four types of exercise: “cardiovascular” often based on running; “muscular” including some “explosive strength” exercises; passive or active “stretching”; “specific” (i.e., miming the characteristics of the sport exercise). The specificity of these exercises is very important and most of them are miming some aspects (e.g., posture, rhythm, muscular action, inter-limb coordination, and angular displacement) of the competitive sport exercise or a part of it
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