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An Examination Of The Workloads And The Effectiveness Of An Athlete Monitoring Program In Ncaa Division I Men's Soccer, Matthew L. Sams
An Examination Of The Workloads And The Effectiveness Of An Athlete Monitoring Program In Ncaa Division I Men's Soccer, Matthew L. Sams
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The purposes of this dissertation were to examine common athlete training and monitoring practices in men’s collegiate soccer and to report the programming strategies and monitoring outcomes for an NCAA Division I men’s collegiate soccer team whose coaching and sport science staff collaborated on a daily basis. The following are the major findings of the dissertation:
Study 1 – Coaches from all divisions of play responded to a custom survey. A majority of coaches developed an in-season training plan that varied both daily and weekly volume and intensity. One-third of the coaches performed no athlete monitoring, and a number of …
The Relationships Of Physiological And Strength Variables To Run Performances, Jana Hollins
The Relationships Of Physiological And Strength Variables To Run Performances, Jana Hollins
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Monitoring progress of athletes is an essential component of the training process. Collegiate distance running coaches often use field tests to assess progress because of a lack of time and resources to do laboratory testing. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the relationships between physiological and strength variables measured in a laboratory and field testing measures in collegiate distance runners. Collegiate distance runners completed a series of tests in the Sport Science laboratory at East Tennessee State University to obtain physiological and strength parameters, such as V̇ O2max and vertical jump height. The athletes then completed one of …