Basic parameters that define intermittency

Approaches and level of analysis of the physical demonstration of professional soccer players. Level 5 (part 4).

And we arrive to the "basis" of the intermittency when using it for the conditional demonstration of soccer athletes (not only soccer).
As you will see, intermittency can be defined basically by the characteristics of the periods of more intense activity, that we call ACTIONS, and the periods of less intense activity that we call PAUSES.
Both. actions and pauses must be selected by an intensity parameter (we will talk about in future posts), that not only determines their INTENSITY but also their DURATION.

So we talk about intensity and duration of actions, and intensity and duration of pauses.

I have added also the concept of RITHM, which we define as the average time between the start of different actions that are demonstrated during the game, training, task, drill, ...

As an exemple you will see some average data obtained from an spanish professional soccer team during all the friendly games that they played during 2007-2008 spanish La Liga season (7 preseason friendly games and 4 in-season friendly games). With this data I have used as key intensity parameter the acceleration (threshold value for considering an action 1 m/s/s with using a 1 hz GPS), because in those years there where not other better option ... (some years later I changed for what I understand are better options as metabolic power and mechanical horizontal power, but we will talk about it in future posts).

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