Intro to intermittency

Approaches and level of analysis of the physical demonstration of professional soccer players. Level 5 (part 1).

Today we start the 5th level of analysis of the physical demonstration of soccer players.
In this introducing entry I'll explain the basis of the approach, that is, I'll just introduce the 4th basic parameters for analyzing the intermittency: intensity of the actions, duration of the actions, intensity of the pause and duration of the pause.

Under my view, this 5th level is the heart & soul of the approach for the correct conditional analysis of soccer players, that means that while the traditional approach is based (as explained in previous posts) on the relationship between speed, intensity, time of effort (related with critical power ...) and exertion (but investigated and developed with CONTINUOUS activity motor pattern), this approach is based on the basic characteristics of the activity of intermittent motor pattern, in which speed is not always directly related with intensity, but specially not directly related with exertion ...

This differences are the constraints under which we are actually working, and the essence of some of the problems we have for distinguish between the analysis and control of the conditional load of sessions and tasks during training (and games) ... But this is the content of a future post.

So hope I'll be able to get your attention ...
Stay tuned!