Metabolic power collective exertion during soccer games: summary.

Just to summarize what we have been analyzing in the lasts posts, if we want to prepare our team based on their conditioning demonstration during soccer games, we'll have to pay attention to the fact that during friendly soccer games, independently of the level of the players (pro and amateur), the phases of higher metabolic power collective exertion show an average value around 1'-3', and during this time, the team can perform different moments of the game (attack, defense, and transitions between them) in different combinations.
We have seen also that, at least in our analysis, there are always some interruptions during these higher exertion phases, but the doesn't affect to the higher metabolic power collective exertion (short stops).

Also we have seen that these phases of higher metabolic power collective exertion starts and ends mainly by an "stop ball set" (foul, through in, corner, etc.), up for an 83% of the cases.

On the other hand, the duration of the interspersed phases of lower metabolic power collective exertion has been shown to be also around 1'-3'.
These means that is possible to play with a lower collective metabolic power exertion, and this is a crucial aspect to control when developing our soccer specific training methodology, because of its effects on the medium and long term development of the players specific conditioning. But we will talk about it in future posts.

So at first, our general temporal reference for applying on the specific soccer tasks if our target is the development of the collective conditioning, and we want to optimize our training time, should be around 1'-3' / 1'-3'.
This means that the time for pauses could be exploited not only for physical recovery, but also (and specially important for the collective and individual cognitive development) for influence on the tactical aspects.
If the main target of the specific task is not just the development of the collective specific conditioning, but the collective adaptation to the demands (all different levels, so cognitive, coordinative, conditional, etc ...) of the game in its various moments (attack, defense, and transitions between them), then it is necessary to use longer intervals for these short of specific tasks.

Next step: how our team behaves when training with different specific soccer tasks?
We will see this issue soon.
Enjoy.