Key result
Individualized speed thresholds fail to improve associations with internal load measures versus arbitrary thresholds.
Why the study?
Do individualized speed threshold strategies achieve better associations with internal load measures compared to arbitrary thresholds in professional soccer players?
Do individualized speed threshold strategies achieve better associations with internal load measures compared to arbitrary thresholds in professional soccer players?
Individualized speed threshold strategies do not provide better associations with internal load measures than arbitrary thresholds in professional soccer players.
Does not support routine use of individualized speed thresholds in soccer load monitoring; leaves open their utility in other contexts or endpoints.
strategy mainly revealed differences in external load quantification regarding MD compared to arbitrary thresholds. Individualized speed threshold strategies did not achieve better associations with internal load measures in comparison with arbitrary thresholds in professional soccer players.
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Padrón-Cabo et al. (2023) studied this question. Individualized speed threshold strategies did not achieve better associations with internal load measures compared to arbitrary thresholds in professional soccer players.
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