Physiology of small-sided games training in football a systematic review

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Abstract Small-sided games SSGs are played on reduced pitch areas, often using modified rules and involving a smaller number of players than traditional football. These games are less structured than traditional fitness training methods but are very popular training drills for players of all ages and levels.

At present, there is relatively little information regarding how SSGs can best be used to improve physical capacities and technical or tactical skills in footballers. However, many prescriptive variables controlled by the coach can influence the exercise intensity during SSGs.

Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Small-sided games activities with external wildcard soccer players. To develop and train aerobic and anaerobic skills in soccer often are used ball exercises on small fields, with reduced number of players, known as small-sided games SSG.

The SSG are technical … Expand. High-Intensity Intermittent Training. Journal of strength and conditioning research.

Highly Influenced. View 6 excerpts, cites background. High volume training with small-sided games affects technical demands in football: a descriptive study.

Sport Sciences for Health. PurposeInterval training with small-sided games SSGs is effective for improving physical conditioning and technical skills in football. This descriptive study investigated the effect of a high … Expand. View 3 excerpts, cites background. Small-sided soccer games, i. Training exercises stimulated in the game allow to master many skills, form habits … Expand.

Small-sided games in high-level football: integrating physiological, perceptual and tactical performances. Small sided-games SSG have gained a major importance in football training. Open access journal of sports medicine. View 1 excerpt, cites background. Time-motion analysis and physiological responses of small-sided team handball games in youth male players: Influence of player number. Sports Med. Small-sided games SSGs are played on reduced pitch ar eas, often using modified rules and involving a smaller number of players than traditional football.

These games are less structured than traditional? At present, there is relatively little information regarding how SSGs can best be used to improve physical capacities and technical or tactical skills in footballers. However, many prescriptive variables controlled by the coach can influence the exercise intensity during SSGs.

Coaches usually attempt to change the training stimulus in SSGs through altering the pitch area, player number, coach encouragement, training regimen continuous vs interval training , rules and the use of goalkeepers. In general, it appears that SSG exercise intensity is increased with the concurrent reduction in player number and increase in relative pitch area per player. However, the inverse relationship between the number of players in each SSG and exercise intensity does not apply to the time-motion characteristics.

Consistent coach encouragement can also increase training intensity, but most rule changes do not appear to strongly affect exercise intensity. The variation of exercise intensity measures are lower in smaller game formats e. The variation in exercise intensity during SSGs can also be improved with consistent coach encouragement but it is still more variable than traditional generic training methods.