Applied Sports Science Weekly Digest #389

Prediction of football injuries using GPS-based data in Iranian professional football players: a machine learning approach

“The results showed that the variable of the number of decelerations had the highest predictive power compared to other variables.“

Enjoyment of spinning exercise performed in a group session as compared to an individual session

“Our findings suggest that parachute-resisted sprints with hand-paddles during warm-up do not enhance 50 m freestyle swimming performance in trained collegiate swimmers.“

Training load and fitness monitoring in Czech football: coach practices and perspectives

“The findings highlight the predominance of traditional monitoring practices among the Czech football coaches, alongside with notable gaps in internal load tracking and fitness evaluation.“

The role of generic cognitive skills: an empirical investigation into the association between generic and sport-specific cognitive skills and playing level in youth football

“We found a partial relationship between generic and football-specific cognition and that football-specific decision-making better differentiates playing levels than generic cognition.“

The effect of muscle warm-up on voluntary and evoked force-time parameters: A systematic review and meta-analysis with meta-regression

“Active warm-up does not always lead to significantly greater performance increases than passive heating strategies, and the magnitude of enhancement may depend on the specifics of the active warm-up.”