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dc.contributor.authorMatias Do Vale Baptista, Ivan Andre
dc.contributor.authorWinther, Andreas Kjæreng
dc.contributor.authorJohansen, Dag
dc.contributor.authorPettersen, Svein Arne
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-04T10:56:40Z
dc.date.available2024-06-04T10:56:40Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-23
dc.description.abstractThe quantification of peak locomotor demands has been gathering researchers’ attention in the past years. Regardless of the different methodological approaches used, the most selected epochs are between 1-, 3-, 5- and 15-minutes time windows. However, the selection of these time frames is frequently arbitrary. The aim of this study was to analyse the peak locomotor demands of short time epochs (15, 30, 45, and 60 seconds) in women’s football, with special emphasis over the high-speed metrics. During two seasons, the match physical performance of 100 female football players was collected with Global Positioning System units (STATSports Apex). Peak locomotor demands for the selected variables were calculated by using a 1-second moving average approach. For statistical procedures, linear mixed modelling was used, with total distance, high-speed running distance (>16 km∙h<sup>-1</sup>), sprint distance (>20 km∙h<sup>-1</sup>), and acceleration and deceleration distance (±2.26 m∙s<sup>-2</sup>) considered as the dependent variables and the epoch lengths (15, 30, 45, and 60 seconds) considered as the independent variables. A novel finding was the high ratio observed in the 15 seconds epochs of high-speed running distance and sprint distance (77.6% and 91.3%, respectively). The results show that most peak high-speed demands within 60 seconds are completed within just 15 seconds. Thus, intensity-related variables, such as high-speed metrics, would be better contextualised and adapted into training practices if analysed in shorter epoch lengths (15–30 seconds), while longer periods might be used for volume-related metrics (i.e., total distance), depending on the purpose of the analysis.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMatias Do Vale Baptista IA, Winther AK, Johansen D, Pettersen SA. Analysis of peak locomotor demands in women’s football–the influence of different epoch lengths. PLOS ONE. 2024en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2272594
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303759
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/33711
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.journalPLOS ONE
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2024 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleAnalysis of peak locomotor demands in women’s football–the influence of different epoch lengthsen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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