Approaches and level of analysis of the physical demonstration of professional soccer players. Level 4 (part 4).

Approaches and level of analysis of the physical demonstration of professional soccer players. Level 4 (part 4).

Following the last post, we arrive to the practical application of this relationship between velocity and acceleration when performed by professional and amateur soccer players, in the control of the conditional load, and also the characteristics of the slope of this relationship, which show us if the ability of the soccer players between acceleration and velocity are balance or not, in order to use it for individualizing some content of our trainings.
You will see the average data of this parameters of two professional soccer teams from different countries (Spain and Switzerland), and also including an Spanish amateur soccer team, which at the end are under the same values.

This data is the key factor for individualizing the control of accelerations demonstrated by the soccer players which until now are just taken in account as absolute values with absolute thresholds (accelerations over 1m/s/s, over, 2m/s/s, etc), that doesn't allow us to correctly interpret the real intensity of an acceleration.
Imagine an absolute value of an acceleration of 2,5 m/s/s performed with an initial velocity of 0 km/h (so from an standing start) or another of the same value performed with an initial velocity of 15 km/h (a change of rhythm) ... Same absolute value, but completely different relative intensity of the acceleration performed!

Enjoy,