Developing Match Fitness in Prepubescent and Pubescent Soccer Players

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Developing Match Fitness in Prepubescent and
Pubescent Soccer Players

• Jesse DeMello, Ed.D.
• US Youth Soccer adidas Workshop Coaches
  Convention
• February 20, 2004

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Match Fitness

• To have the ability to execute all necessary
  techniques and tactics at demanded speed without
  loss of precision, in pace and direction, for the
  duration of the match.

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Match Requirements

• Prepubescent
• Game duration 50-70 minutes
• Distance covered 4-6 km
• Pubescent
• Game duration 80-90 minutes
• Distance covered 8-11 km

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Physiological components

• Aerobic demands
• Include light walking, jogging and or running
  anywhere from 10-17 km/hr
• Anaerobic demands
• All maximal and supra-maximal running lasting
  1-30 seconds.
• Anaerobic phosphagen system energy (ATP and Pcr)
  lasting 8 sec. or less
• Anaerobic glycolytic system lasting 10-30 sec

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Principles of fitness

• Overload
• Specificity
• Intensity
• Discontinuous (interval)
• Individual differences
• Use and disuse
• Periodization (training variation)
• Preseason, in season, postseason
• Inverse relationship between volume and intensity

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Prepubescent Soccer players
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Mean VO2max (ml.kg-1.min-1) for the 12 and 13
year-old Girls and Boys
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Mean velocity (m.sec-1) for the 12 year-old Girls
and Boys at various distances
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Pubescent Soccer players
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Mean (SE) VO2max (ml.kg-1.min-1) of the 12-16
year-old Boys and Girls
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Velocity Curves (m.Sec-1) for the Pubescent Boys
and Girls
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Tests

• Aerobic capacity
• YoYo endurance test (Bangsbo, J.), 1996
• Anaerobic power (phosphagen energy)
• 30-yard dash
• Vertical jump
• Anaerobic Power (glycolytic energy)
• 300 m shuttle
• Height and Weight (BMI)
• Body Composition (hydro-density, skin fold sums),
  Jackson and Pollock 1975

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Anaerobic exercise prescription

• Resistance training (whole body general)
• Upper body
• Lower body
• Jump training
• Olympic weightlifting

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Aerobic exercise prescription

• Type
• LSD, Interval, Repetition
• Frequency
• 3 X week
• Duration
• What it takes to cover 5km at designated
  intensity

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For information about reference material and
specific training regimen

• Postal address
• 1 University place, Shreveport, LA 71115
• Telephone
• [phone]
• E-mail
• Jdemello_at_pilot.lsus.edu