ReviewSports (Basel, Switzerland)2024
If You Want to Prevent Hamstring Injuries in Soccer, Run Fast: A Narrative Review about Practical Considerations of Sprint Training.
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- Position-Specific External Load Between Official Matches and Small-, Medium- and Large-Sided Games in Professional Football.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Article
- The Influence of Individualization in External Load Control on Anaerobic Performance in a Women's Soccer Team.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Large-sided games do not replicate the positional worst-case scenarios of official matches in professional football.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- The between competition sprint profile of intercounty female gaelic football during training and match-play: An exploratory study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Unmasking speed curve anomalies in team sports: a practical guideline for data treatment and interpretation.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- The speed dynamics of different sprint and acceleration exercises applied during football training.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Review Articles on Soccer Performance Analysis: A Bibliometric Analysis of Current Trends and Emerging Themes.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Utilising Inertial Measurement Units and Force-Velocity Profiling to Explore the Relationship Between Hamstring Strain Injury and Running Biomechanics.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Contact load is associated with both contact and non-contact injuries in rugby union.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Hamstring strain injuries (HSIs) are one of the most common injuries in sprint-based sports. In soccer, the ability to sprint is key, not only because of its relation to performance but also due to its possible protective effect against HSIs. Although many authors have focused on the "how", "when", and "what" training load should be implemented, there is a lack of practical proposals for sprint training in a high-level professional environment. The objective of this narrative review is, after a deep review of the scientific literature, to present a practical approach for sprint training, trying to answer some of the questions that most strength and conditioning coaches ask themselves when including it in soccer. Once the literature published on this topic was reviewed and combined with the practical experience of the authors, it was concluded that sprint training in soccer, although it presents an obvious need, is not something about which there is methodological unanimity. However, following the practical recommendations from this narrative review, strength and conditioning coaches can have a reference model that serves as a starting point for optimal management of the internal and external training load when they wish to introduce sprint training in the competitive microcycle in professional soccer players, with the aim of reducing HSIs.
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