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Effect of Different Nonstarter Compensatory Strategies on Training Load in Female Soccer Players: A Pilot Study.
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- 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
- Using Game-Based Compensatory Strategies in Non-Starter Soccer Players: Analyzing The Impact on Physical Fitness Development.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2025Article
- Inter-individual differences in weekly training load in international-level handball: the effect of congested match schedules.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Balancing the load: A narrative review with methodological implications of compensatory training strategies for non-starting soccer players.Biology of sport · 2024Article
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- Soccer's Transition.Sports healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundIn soccer, the day of the week with the highest external load is match day (MD), with starters (>60 minutes per match) showing higher levels of physical fitness and seasonal high-intensity loading. It is necessary, therefore, to determine training strategies to reduce the differences between starters and nonstarters. The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the external load of different training compensatory strategies with match external load in female nonstarters. HYPOTHESIS: A strategy combining small-sided games (SSG) and running-based drills (RBD) would reproduce match demands, with RBD leading to greater high-intensity running and SSG leading to a greater number of accelerations and decelerations. STUDY
designDescriptive and comparative study. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level 4.
methodsThe training and match external load of 14 female players belonging to the same reserve squad of a Spanish First Division Club (Liga Reto Iberdrola) was registered. In the first session after the match (MD+1), nonstarters (<60 minutes in the match) performed 1 of 3 different compensatory strategies: RBD, SSG, or a mixed intervention combining the previous strategies (RBD+SSG). Starters carried out a recovery session.
resultsA marked difference in load was observed between the compensatory training strategies and MD. In comparison with MD, RBD showed greater high-intensity and sprint distances and lower acceleration, SSG showed less high-intensity running and sprint distances, lower peak velocity, and greater acceleration, and RBD+SSG registered lower accelerations. In addition, nonstarters covered greater high-intensity running and sprint distances in RBD and achieved higher accelerations in SSG.
conclusionRBD and SSG compensatory strategies could be recommended to nonstarter female soccer players in MD+1 to compensate for match external load deficits. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: This study provides comprehensive information on the compensatory exercises of female soccer players, which can be useful for strength and conditioning coaches when developing recovery strategies during a microcycle.
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