ArticlePloS one2018
Training at maximal power in resisted sprinting: Optimal load determination methodology and pilot results in team sport athletes.
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- Internal Validity in Resistance Training Research: A Systematic Review.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2022Pooled it
- The Training of Short Distance Sprint Performance in Football Code Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Pooled it
- The Acute Effects Of Hip Thrust and Glute Bridge Exercises With Different Loads on Sprint Performance and Horizontal Force-Velocity Profile in Adolescent Soccer Players: A Post-Activation Performance Enhancement Approach.European journal of sport science · 2025Trial
- The Use of Different Modes of Post-Activation Potentiation (PAP) for Enhancing Speed of the Slide-Step in Basketball Players.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Reliability of Sprint Time and Force-Velocity Profiles During Sprint Acceleration in Elite Rugby Union Players: Inter-Trial Reliability of Linear Encoder, GPS, Timing Gates and Video Analysis.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effects of Resisted Versus Non-Resisted Sprint Training on Countermovement Jump and Sprint Force-Velocity Profile in Youth Footballers: A Randomised Controlled Trial.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effects of resisted movement training on change-of-direction speed in recreationally active and trained individuals: A systematic review with network meta-analysis and meta-regression.Journal of sport and health science · 2026Review
- Are Dry-Land Force-Velocity Abilities Related to In-Water Load-Velocity Profiles in Sprint Swimming?European journal of sport science · 2026Article
- Sprint Running Coordination: A Dynamical Systems Perspective.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Review
- Relationship Between the Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test and Match Running Performance in Canadian Male Professional Soccer Players.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effects of different heavy sled loads sprint training on acceleration performance in adolescent sprinters.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Muscle Injury Risk in Professional Football: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Kinematic and Kinetic Comparison of Sprint-Specific Exercises: Impact on Maximal Sprint Acceleration Training.Journal of human kinetics · 2025Article
- Optimizing Muscle Performance in Young Soccer Players: Exploring the Impact of Resisted Sprint Training and Its Relationship with Distance Covered.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effect of two training modalities on sprint performance in young American football players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Post-activation performance enhancement in resisted sprinting: effects of different loads and rest intervals on 100-m sprint segments.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Neuromuscular adaptations to resistance training in elite versus recreational athletes.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Review
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Abstract
aimsIn the current study we investigated the effects of resisted sprint training on sprinting performance and underlying mechanical parameters (force-velocity-power profile) based on two different training protocols: (i) loads that represented maximum power output (Lopt) and a 50% decrease in maximum unresisted sprinting velocity and (ii) lighter loads that represented a 10% decrease in maximum unresisted sprinting velocity, as drawn from previous research (L10).
methodsSoccer [n = 15 male] and rugby [n = 21; 9 male and 12 female] club-level athletes were individually assessed for horizontal force-velocity and load-velocity profiles using a battery of resisted sprints, sled or robotic resistance respectively. Athletes then performed a 12-session resisted (10 × 20-m; and pre- post-profiling) sprint training intervention following the L10 or Lopt protocol.
resultsBoth L10 and Lopt training protocols had minor effects on sprinting performance (average of -1.4 to -2.3% split-times respectively), and provided trivial, small and unclear changes in mechanical sprinting parameters. Unexpectedly, Lopt impacted velocity dominant variables to a greater degree than L10 (trivial benefit in maximum velocity; small increase in slope of the force-velocity relationship), while L10 improved force and power dominant metrics (trivial benefit in maximal power; small benefit in maximal effectiveness of ground force orientation).
conclusionsBoth resisted-sprint training protocols were likely to improve performance after a short training intervention in already sprint trained athletes. However, widely varied individualised results indicated that adaptations may be dependent on pre-training force-velocity characteristics.
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