Aim: Strength and power-related variables are essential mechanisms of performance that require jumping in football. Isoinertial training has been an important method for improving power performance. The aim the study is to observe effect eight-week isoinertial on young football players. 
 Methods: Twenty-four volunteer male players playing Turkish Football Federation (TFF) U19 Development ...

BACKGROUND Despite little evidence that defines a threshold of head impact exposure or that participation in youth sports leads to long-term cognitive impairments, it is prudent to identify methods of reducing the frequency of head impacts. PURPOSE To compare the mean number of head impacts between youth football players in practice and games between leagues that implemented the Heads Up Foot...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of hypertension among collegiate football athletes is not well described. METHODS AND RESULTS A retrospective cohort of all male athletes who participated in varsity athletics at a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I university between 1999 and 2012 was examined through chart review. Mandatory annual preparticipation physical examinations included blo...

Brazil’s capacity to continuously foster football talents is internationally acknowledged. It is rightly said that Brazil is a bottomless celeiro de craques (storehouse of football stars). But this metaphor might be outdated, given the changes in professional training in recent decades. Rather than thinking of Brazil as a storehouse for supplying players ready to be recruited by the market, as ...

Numerous investigations have attested to the efficacy of the National Football League (NFL)-225 test to estimate one repetition maximum (1RM) bench press. However, no studies have assessed the efficacy of the test to track changes in strength across a training program. The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of the NFL-225 test for determining the change in 1RM bench press in Na...

Strength and conditioning professionals who work with collegiate football players focus much of their time and effort on developing programs to enhance athletic performance. Although there has been much speculation, there is little scientific evidence to suggest which combination of physical characteristics best predicts athletic performance in this population. The purpose of this investigation...

[Purpose] This study aimed to compare physical activities between junior high school and high school female football players in order to explain the factors that predispose to a higher incidence of sports injuries in high school female football players. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-nine female football players participated. Finger floor distance, the center of pressure during single limb stanc...

Clemente, M.F., Lourenço Martins, F.M., Sousa Mendes, R., & Figueiredo, A.J. (2014). A systemic overview of football game: The principles behind the game. J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 9(2), pp.656-667. The football game is a specific system constituted by many players’ interactions. The specific nature of such sport must be properly analyzed and discussed in sport community in order to understand the ...

Current technologies allow movements of the players and the ball in football matches to be tracked and recorded with high accuracy and temporal frequency. We demonstrate an approach to analyzing football data with the aim to find typical patterns of spatial arrangement of the field players. It involves transformation of original coordinates to relative positions of the players and the ball with...