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Physiological and Metabolic Responses of Repeated-Sprint Activities: Specific to Field-Based Team Sports

Spencer, Matt, Bishop, David, Dawson, Brian, Goodman, Carmel·2005·Sports Medicine
DOI 10.2165/00007256-200535120-00003
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Field-based team sports, such as soccer, rugby and hockey are popular worldwide. There have been many studies that have investigated the physiology of these sports, especially soccer. However, some fitness components of these field-based team sports are poorly understood. In particular, repeated-sprint ability (RSA) is one area that has received relatively little research attention until recent times. Historically, it has been difficult to investigate the nature of RSA, because of the unpredictability of player movements performed during field-based team sports. However, with improvements in technology, time-motion analysis has allowed researchers to document the detailed movement patterns of team-sport athletes. Studies that have published time-motion analysis during competition, in general, have reported the mean distance and duration of sprints during field-based team sports to be between 10-20 m and 2-3 seconds, respectively. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these studies have not reported the specific movement patterns of RSA, which is proposed as an important fitness component of team sports. Furthermore, there have been few studies that have investigated the physiological requirements of one-off, short-duration sprinting and repeated sprints (<10 seconds duration) that is specific to field-based team sports. This review examines the limited data concerning the metabolic changes occurring during this type of exercise, such as energy system contribution, adenosine triphosphate depletion and resynthesis, phosphocreatine degradation and resynthesis, glycolysis and glycogenolysis, and purine nucleotide loss. Assessment of RSA, as a training and research tool, is also discussed.

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  • Participants were required to achieve at least 95% of their criterion sprint time in their first sprint; if they failed, the test was terminated and restarted after a 5-minute rest.

    “Participants were required to achieve at least 95% of this criterion time in their first sprint. If they failed to meet this requirement, the test was terminated, and after a 5-minute rest, the test was restarted22.”

    From Evaluating bioenergetic pathway contributions from single to multiple sprints (2024) · cites this paper as [22]

  • Repeated sprint exercises are commonly used both as a training method and as a testing tool, as they closely mimic the dynamics of field-based sports.

    “Repeated sprint exercises are commonly used both as a training method and as a testing tool, as they closely mimic the dynamics of field-based sports4,5.”

    From Evaluating bioenergetic pathway contributions from single to multiple sprints (2024) · cites this paper as [5]

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Authors
Spencer, M., Bishop, D., Dawson, B., & Goodman, C.
Affiliations
The University of Western Australia (AU)
Corresponding author
Spencer, Matt
ORCID
Venue
Sports Medicine
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2005
Volume
35
Issue
12
Pages
1025-1044
ISSN
0112-1642 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2165/00007256-200535120-00003
OpenAlex
W2151895510
Cited by
820
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 39 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 53 · 2017: 42 · 2016: 49 · 2015: 47 · 2014: 61 · 2013: 57 · 2012: 46
FWCI
12.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Sports Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Victoria University Research Repository (Victoria University) (submittedVersion)
  • UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Orthopedics and Sports Medicine › Sports Performance and Training
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Rehabilitation › Exercise and Physiological Responses
Keywords
repeated sprint ability, sprinting, energy system contribution, ATP resynthesis, phosphocreatine resynthesis, glycolysis, glycogenolysis, time and motion study
MeSH terms
Adult, Australia, Energy Metabolism, Female, Glycolysis, Humans, Male, Oxygen Consumption, Physical Endurance, Physical Fitness, Running, Sensitivity and Specificity, Soccer, Sports

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