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USE OF RPE-BASED TRAINING LOAD IN SOCCER. |
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Impellizzeri FM, Rampinini E, Coutts AJ, Sassi A, Marcora SM.
PURPOSE: The ability to accurately control and monitor internal training load isan important aspect of effective coaching. The aim of this study was to apply insoccer the RPE-based method proposed by Foster et al. to quantify internaltraining load (session-RPE) and to assess its correlations with various methodsused to determine internal training load based on the HR response to exercise.
METHODS: Nineteen young soccer players (mean +/- SD: age 17.6 +/- 0.7 yr, weight70.2 +/- 4.7 kg, height 178.5 +/- 4.8 cm, body fat 7.5 +/- 2.2%, VO2max, 57.1+/- 4.0 mL x kg x min) were involved in the study. All subjects performed anincremental treadmill test before and after the training period during whichlactate threshold (1.5 mmol x L above baseline) and OBLA (4.0 mmol x L) weredetermined. The training loads completed during the seven training weeks weredetermined multiplying the session RPE (CR10-scale) by session duration inminutes. These session-RPE values were correlated with training load measuresobtained from three different HR-based methods suggested by Edwards, Banister,and Lucia, respectively.
RESULTS: Individual internal loads of 479 trainingsessions were collected. All individual correlations between various HR-basedtraining load and session-RPE were statistically significant (from r = 0.50 to r= 0.85, P < 0.01).
CONCLUSION: The results of this study show that thesession-RPE can be considered a good indicator of global internal load of soccertraining. This method does not require particular expensive equipment and can bevery useful and practical for coaches and athletic trainer to monitor andcontrol internal load, and to design periodization strategies.
Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2004 Jun;36(6):1042-7. |
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