ArticlePloS one2022
Inter- and intra-microcycle external load analysis in female professional soccer players: A playing position approach.
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- Benchmarking the Physical Performance Qualities in Women's Football: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Across the Performance Scale.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Pooled it
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- Physical Fitness and External Training Load Represent Distinct Dimensions of Performance in Female Football Players During the Pre-Season.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Match-day peaks and post-match compensation: divergent weekly load profiles of starters vs. non-starters in professional women's soccer.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Starters Experience Greater Weekly Match and Total Loads than Non-Starters in a Professional Female Soccer Team: An Exploratory Analysis Within the A-League Women's Australian Competition.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Observational
- Shaping Training Load, Technical-Tactical Behaviour, and Well-Being in Football: A Systematic Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Non-contact injury incidence in professional women's football depends on the starting status of the player.Biology of sport · 2025Article
- How Does the Number of Small Goals Affect National-Level Female Soccer Players in Game-Based Situations? Effects on Technical-Tactical, Physical, and Physiological Variables.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Load distribution across weekly microcycles according to match schedule in a team competing in the Australian national A-League Women's soccer competition.Biology of sport · 2025Article
- Female Soccer Players' In-Season Weekly Training Load and Intensity: Comparison between National League's Top and Bottom-Half Ranked Teams.Journal of human kinetics · 2025Article
- Effect of the role, playing position and the body characteristics on physical performance in female soccer players.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Match demands of female team sports: a scoping review.Biology of sport · 2024Article
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- Nutritional Intake and Training Load of Professional Female Football Players during a Mid-Season Microcycle.Nutrients · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study analyzes the inter- and intra-differences in external load across the microcycle in professional female soccer players. External load during four consecutive microcycles (i.e., M1, M2, M3, and M4) and training sessions (i.e., MD-4, MD-3, MD-2, and MD-1) and a match day (i.e., MD) were registered in seventeen female professional soccer players (age: 26.3 ± 4.6 years; height: 166.3 ± 6.1 cm; body mass: 59.8 ± 6.8 kg; and body mass index: 21.6 ± 1.7 kg·m-2) who belonged to the same team in Spanish first division. A 10-Hz GPS that integrated a 100-Hz triaxial accelerometer was used to register external load. The results showed lower decelerations in M2 compared to M1 and M3 (p < 0.05), lower high-intensity distance (>16.0 km·h-1) in M3 vs. M2, and greater relative sprint distance (>21.0 km·min-1) in M4 vs. M1 and M3 (p < 0.05). MD-3 registered the highest load for all variables (p < 0.05). Forwards (FWs) performed (p < 0.05) significantly more sprints (meters and number > 21.0 km·h-1) than central midfielders (CMs) and central defenders (CDs) in MD-2 and MD. Both, fitness and conditioning staff should pay special attention to the external loads for each playing position in training sessions to optimize the training process.
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