TY - JOUR
T1 - Movement economy in soccer
T2 - Current data and limitations
AU - Dolci, Filippo
AU - Hart, Nicolas H.
AU - Kilding, Andrew
AU - Chivers, Paola
AU - Piggott, Ben
AU - Spiteri, Tania
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Soccer is an intermittent team-sport, where performance is determined by a myriad of psychological, technical, tactical, and physical factors. Among the physical factors, endurance appears to play a key role into counteracting the fatigue-related reduction in running performance observed during soccer matches. One physiological determinant of endurance is movement economy, which represents the aerobic energy cost to exercise at a given submaximal velocity. While the role of movement economy has been extensively examined in endurance athletes, it has received little attention in soccer players, but may be an important factor, given the prolonged demands of match play. For this reason, the current review discusses the nature, impact, and trainability of movement economy specific to soccer players. A summary of current knowledge and limitations of movement economy in soccer is provided, with an insight into future research directions, to make this important parameter more valuable when assessing and training soccer players’ running performance.
AB - Soccer is an intermittent team-sport, where performance is determined by a myriad of psychological, technical, tactical, and physical factors. Among the physical factors, endurance appears to play a key role into counteracting the fatigue-related reduction in running performance observed during soccer matches. One physiological determinant of endurance is movement economy, which represents the aerobic energy cost to exercise at a given submaximal velocity. While the role of movement economy has been extensively examined in endurance athletes, it has received little attention in soccer players, but may be an important factor, given the prolonged demands of match play. For this reason, the current review discusses the nature, impact, and trainability of movement economy specific to soccer players. A summary of current knowledge and limitations of movement economy in soccer is provided, with an insight into future research directions, to make this important parameter more valuable when assessing and training soccer players’ running performance.
KW - Aerobic energy cost
KW - Aerobic fitness
KW - Endurance
KW - Movement economy
KW - Running economy
KW - Soccer
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094217315&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/sports6040124
DO - 10.3390/sports6040124
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85094217315
SN - 2075-4663
VL - 6
JO - Sports
JF - Sports
IS - 4
M1 - 124
ER -