Table 1.
Participants’ characteristics.
Fig 1.
MAP, measurement of activity (football) profile; HR, heart rate; Pre, measurements before the match; Post, measurements immediately after the match; black arrow, indicates time of measuement.
Table 2.
The contents and duration of daily training sessions performed during the post-match period.
Table 3.
Physical activity data obtained during practice by GPS and heart rate monitoring.
Table 4.
Discrimination of players of the experimental group into a high- and low-performer subgroup based on physical activity variables indicative of match's external load as derived from cluster and discriminant analysis.
Table 5.
The physiological profile of the football match.
Table 6.
GPS-measured activity profile of the experimental group during the football match.
Fig 2.
Changes of soreness (A-B), CK activity (C) and leukocyte counts (D) following a football match.
MS, muscle soreness; CK, creatine kinase activity; h, hours; C, control group; EG, experimental group; KE-C, knee extensors of control group; KE-EG, knee extensors of experimental group; KF-C, knee flexors of control group; KF-EG, knee flexors of experimental group; 1Significant difference with baseline; 2significant difference between groups; 3significant difference between dominant and non-dominant limb at corresponding time; 4greater decline in functional ration compared to conventional ratio at corresponding time;5greater decline at 180°/s compared to that at 60°/s at corresponding time.
Fig 3.
Changes of strength performance of knee extensors in response to a football match.
h, hours; 1Significant difference with baseline; 2significant difference between groups; 3significant difference between dominant and non-dominant limb at corresponding time; 4greater decline in functional ration compared to conventional ratio at corresponding time;5greater decline at 180°/s compared to that at 60°/s at corresponding time.
Fig 4.
Changes of strength performance of knee flexors in response to a football match.
h, hours; 1Significant difference with baseline; 2significant difference between groups; 3significant difference between dominant and non-dominant limb at corresponding time; 4greater decline in functional ration compared to conventional ratio at corresponding time;5greater decline at 180°/s compared to that at 60°/s at corresponding time.
Fig 5.
Changes of conventional ratio in response to a football match.
KFcon/KEcon, conventional ratio; h, hours; 1Significant difference with baseline; 2significant difference between groups; 3significant difference between dominant and non-dominant limb at corresponding time; 4greater decline in functional ration compared to conventional ratio at corresponding time;5greater decline at 180°/s compared to that at 60°/s at corresponding time.
Fig 6.
Changes of functional ratio in response to a football match.
KFecc/KEcon, functional ratio; h, hours; 1Significant difference with baseline; 2significant difference between groups; 3significant difference between dominant and non-dominant limb at corresponding time; 4greater decline in functional ration compared to conventional ratio at corresponding time;5greater decline at 180°/s compared to that at 60°/s at corresponding time.
Table 7.
Stepwise linear regression model summary for each component predictors.