Intermittence and metabolic power in small sided and possession games (part 2 of 4).
In this second part, and after the introduction to this issue in the first part, you will find the characteristics of the intermittence in the analysis of soccer.
This could be resume in two phases, called "action" and "pause", and both can be defined by its intensity and its duration.
About the intensity analysis, this should be done (in present and future) not only by speed, or also with acceleration in a better approach, but specially by a concept as the metabolic power, introduced by Di Prampero and col. (2005 and 2009), used for the first time in soccer analysis by Osgnach and col. (2010), and promoted by Colli and colleagues in a very practice way to training.
This concept bring us the opportunity to join speed and acceleration to better understand the conditional demonstration of players during competition and training.
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