Authors' Reply to Wewege et al.: Comment on: "The training of short distance sprint performance in football code athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis"

Abstract

<p>We would like to thank Wewege et al. [1] for their kind and constructive comments regarding our recent systematic review and meta-analysis [2], which acknowledged our detailed methodology and pre-registration. Our review found 121 studies, including 3419 athletes related to training interventions to improve football code athletes' short-sprint performance. We would also like to thank Wewege et al., [1] for highlighting some limitations within our statistical approach, where they suggest a between-group effect would have been more appropriate to evaluate the causality of the sprint training interventions rather than the pooling of within group change from pre- and post-intervention data.</p>