Open AccessTraining habits in professional soccer players during COVID-19 confinement
Author(s) -
Marcos Chena,
Luis Gutiérrez-García,
Juan Carlos Zapardiel,
Iván Asín-Izquierdo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kinesiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1848-638X
pISSN - 1331-1441
DOI - 10.26582/k.53.2.11
Subject(s) - covid-19 , training (meteorology) , pandemic , psychology , population , applied psychology , medical education , medicine , physical therapy , gerontology , environmental health , geography , disease , pathology , meteorology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The pandemic caused by COVID-19 hasled to an unprecedented situation, forcing governments to take urgent measuresand confine the population. These measures have also affected sports. Soccercompetitions and training sessions were interrupted worldwide, causing the needto adapt training sessions to the new situation. The objective of this study isto observe and analyse training habits carried outduring the COVID-19 confinement by Spanish professional soccer players of bothsexes. An o bservational study was based on an ad-hoc telematic questionnaireduring the COVID-19 state of alarm in Spain. The results showed that strengthand conditioning training was of great importance in the training habitsdeveloped during the COVID-19 confinement, fundamentally that of strength andendurance capacities. Specificity was low as conditional capabilities were affected bycontextual limitations.The findings of this study yielded very usefulinformation related to the training habits of professional soccer players ofboth sexes and offered an unpublished reference database that could be used toaddress training planning at specific periods of the year (transition,vacations, emergencies, ...), with the aim of resuming competitive activity inthe best conditions.