{"id":7113,"date":"2021-02-26T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T09:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapeisport.it\/attivita-scientifica\/impact-of-covid-19-lockdown-on-serie-a-soccer-players-physical-qualities\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:11:06","slug":"impact-of-covid-19-lockdown-on-serie-a-soccer-players-physical-qualities","status":"publish","type":"attivita-scientifica","link":"https:\/\/www.mapeisport.it\/en\/attivita-scientifica\/impact-of-covid-19-lockdown-on-serie-a-soccer-players-physical-qualities\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on serie A soccer players\u2019 physical qualities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rampinini E<sup>1<\/sup>, Donghi F<sup>1<\/sup>, Martin M<sup>1<\/sup>, Bosio A<sup>1<\/sup>, Riggio M<sup>2<\/sup>, Maffiuletti NA<sup>3<\/sup> ,<\/p>\n<p>1, Mapei Sport Research Centre, Olgiate Olona, VA, Italy; 2, U.S. Sassuolo Calcio, Sport Science, Sassuolo, Italy; 3, Schulthess Clinic, Human Performance Lab, Zurich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mapeisport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Thieme_Impact_of_Covid-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced most activities in Italy, including soccer, to cease. During lockdown, players could only train at home, with limited evidence regar<span style=\"text-align: justify;\">ding the effect of this period. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of COVID-19 lockdown on professional soccer players&#8217; physical performance. Aerobic fitness and vertical jump were assessed before and after four periods in two different seasons: COVID-19 lockdown, competitive period before lockdown, competitive period and summer break of the 2016-2017 season. Linear mixed models were used to examine within-period changes and between-period differences in changes observed during COVID-19 lockdown and the three other periods. Within-period changes in aerobic fitness showed a significant improvement following COVID-19 lockdown (p&lt;0.001) and a significant decline during summer break (p&lt;0.001). Between-period differences were significant in the comparison of COVID-19 lockdown with both the competitive 2019-2020 season (p&lt;0.01) and summer break (p&lt;0.001). For the vertical jump, only the between-period comparison revealed significant differences as the changes associated with COVID-19 lockdown were worse than those of the two competitive periods, for both absolute (p&lt;0.05; p&lt;0.001) and relative peak power (p&lt;0.01; p&lt;0.001). Home-based training during lockdown was effective to improve aerobic fitness, although it did not allow players to maintain their competitive period&#8217;s power levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Int J Sports Med 2021 Feb Online ahead of print<\/p>\n<p>PMID: 33621997\u00a0\u00a0 DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1055\/a-1345-9262\" data-ga-category=\"full_text\" data-ga-action=\"DOI\">10.1055\/a-1345-9262<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8191,"template":"","categories":[858,862,863,859],"tags":[437,197,198,473],"class_list":["post-7113","attivita-scientifica","type-attivita-scientifica","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calcio-en","category-monitoring-en","category-soccer-3-en","category-testing-en","tag-andrea-bosio-en","tag-ermanno-rampinini-en","tag-federico-donghi-en","tag-marco-martin-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on serie A soccer players\u2019 physical qualities - Mapei Sport<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mapeisport.it\/en\/attivita-scientifica\/impact-of-covid-19-lockdown-on-serie-a-soccer-players-physical-qualities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on serie A soccer players\u2019 physical qualities - Mapei Sport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rampinini E1, Donghi F1, Martin M1, Bosio A1, Riggio M2, Maffiuletti NA3 , 1, Mapei Sport Research Centre, Olgiate Olona, VA, Italy; 2, U.S. Sassuolo Calcio, Sport Science, Sassuolo, Italy; 3, Schulthess Clinic, Human Performance Lab, Zurich, Switzerland. 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