ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2026
A 3-day step taper enhances explosive power, repeated sprint, and small-sided game performance in soccer.
Article in Frontiers in sports and active living, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effects of repeated sprint training on repeated sprint ability and short-distance sprint performance in youth soccer players: a meta-analysis.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Aims: This study aimed to investigate the effects of a three-day step taper on lower-limb explosive power, repeated-sprint performance, and physical and physiological parameters during sport-specific exercises in professional soccer players. Methods: The study involved 26 outfield professional soccer players from the same team (age: 28.7±4.3 years; body mass: 71.8±7.2 kg; height: 173.7±4.3 cm). Following a 4-week mesocycle of progressive training load, players were randomly assigned to a taper group (TG; Results: The results indicated that the TG improved CMJAS height (large effect; d = 1.5; Conclusions: The study indicates that a 3-day step taper with a 50% reduction in training duration, while keeping intensity and frequency, effectively improves repeated-sprint ability and explosive power in professional soccer players, without performance loss from prior high training loads.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.