Muscle Strength and Speed Performance in Youth Soccer Players
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This study aimed to examine the relationship between maximum leg extension strength and sprinting performance in youth elite male soccer players. Sixty-three youth players (12.5 ± 1.3 years) performed 5 m, flying 15 m and 20 m sprint tests and a zigzag agility test on a grass field using timing gates. Two days later, subjects performed a one-repetition maximum leg extension test (79.3 ± 26.9 kg). Weak to strong correlations were found between leg extension strength and the time to perform 5 m (r = -0.39, p = 0.001), flying 15 m (r = -0.72, p < 0.001) and 20 m (r = -0.67, p < 0.001) sprints; between body mass and 5 m (r = -0.43, p < 0.001), flying 15 m (r = -0.75, p < 0.001), 20 m (r = -0.65, p < 0.001) sprints and agility (r =-0.29, p < 0.001); and between height and 5 m (r = -0.33, p < 0.01) and flying 15 m (r = -0.74, p < 0.001) sprints. Our results show that leg muscle strength and anthropometric variables strongly correlate with sprinting ability. This suggests that anthropometric characteristics should be considered to compare among youth players, and that youth players should undergo strength training to improve running speed.
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Ayotte et al. found that body mass gain from strength training did not negatively impact aerobic capacity but significantly increased it in elite soccer players.
“Regarding MM, Ayotte et al. assessed whether body mass gain from strength training would impair the aerobic capacity of 11 elite soccer players, with the results showing that it did not negatively impact aerobic capacity, but significantly increased it [2,119,120].”
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- Authors
- Peñailillo, L., Espíldora, F., Jannas-Vela, S., Mujika, I., & Zbinden-Foncea, H.
- Affiliations
- Finis Terrae University (CL)
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
- Exercise Science Laboratory, School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile
- Venue
- Journal of Human Kinetics
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2016-04-01
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 203-210
- ISSN
- 1640-5544 (ISSN-L)
- 1899-7562
- PMC
- PMC5260655
- OpenAlex
- W2336558407
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 27
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- FWCI
- 4.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
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- Locations
- Journal of Human Kinetics (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Orthopedics and Sports Medicine › Sports Performance and Training
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Orthopedics and Sports Medicine › Sports injuries and prevention
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
- Keywords
- lower limb muscle strength, sprint performance, youth football players, anthropometric variables, body mass, height, agility, resistance training, elite youth athletes
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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