Training duration may not be a predisposing factor in potential maladaptations in talent development programmes that promote early specialisation in elite youth soccer

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Training duration may not be a predisposing factor in potential maladaptations in talent development programmes that promote early specialisation in elite youth soccer http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/8210/ Article LJMU has developed LJMU Research Online for users to access the research output of the University more effectively. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LJMU Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of the record. Please see the repository URL above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.

Seasonal training and match load and micro-cycle periodization in male Premier League academy soccer players

“…Nonetheless, even when accounting for gym-based training, the typical duration of activity presented here is still somewhat lower than those reported by Wrigley and colleagues (Wrigley et al, 2012). In contrast, a more recent study reported a higher pitch-based training and match duration in the younger age-groups (U12-U14: ~400 min•week −1 ) when compared to U15 (~200 min•week −1 ) and U16 and U18 players (~250 min•week −1 ), also from a Category One EPL soccer academy (Brownlee et al, 2018). When taken together, these data demonstrate clear differences between different EPL academies, likely a reflection of differences in coaching and training philosophies between clubs.…”

“…In contrast to adult players, the habitual training loads completed by academy soccer players are less well studied. Indeed, previous reports to date are limited to quantifying the accumulative training and match load (TML) over a period of one-to-two weeks (Coutinho et al, 2015;Hannon et al, 2021;Wrigley et al, 2012) and are often confined to internal measures such as heart rate and/or rating of perceived exertion (Wrigley et al, 2012) or single training metrics such as session duration (Brownlee et al, 2018).…”

Effect of long‐term soccer training on changes in cardiac function during exercise in elite youth soccer players

“…Furthermore, it is unequivocal that elite youth SP are exposed to high annual training volumes 2 . Indeed, training volumes have been reported to be 400–500 min per week in 12–14 years elite youth SP from English Premier League academies 3,4 …”

Training Management of the Elite Adolescent Soccer Player throughout Maturation

“…Limited published information is available with regards to the longitudinal training demands in youth soccer academies (i.e., ≤16 years). To date, studies have been reduced to quantifying youth player match and training demands over one-to-two weeks [11,148], or have solely reported the training durations [108], internal [11], or external demands of training [135]. Collectively, a general trend is reported towards a progressive increase in overall physical loading (i.e., exercise volume) as chronological age increases.…”