Can Team-Sport Athletes Accurately Run at Submaximal Sprinting Speeds? Implications for Rehabilitation and Warm-Up Protocols

Title
Can Team-Sport Athletes Accurately Run at Submaximal Sprinting Speeds? Implications for Rehabilitation and Warm-Up Protocols
Publication Date
2022-08
Author(s)
Darrall-Jones, Joshua
Roe, Gregory
Cremen, Eoin
Jones, Ben
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1519/JSC.0000000000003960
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/58425
Abstract

Darrall-Jones, J, Roe, G, Cremen, E, and Jones, B. Can team-sport athletes accurately run at submaximal sprinting speeds? Implications for rehabilitation and warm-up protocols. J Strength Cond Res 36(8): 2218–2222, 2022—The aim of this study is to examine the ability of team-sport athletes to accurately run at a range of submaximal sprint velocities (60–90% maximal velocity" Vmax) under verbal instruction without any objective feedback. Twelve professional male rugby union players (age 19.7 6 0.9 years, body mass 98.3 6 13.9 kg, height 184.0 6 7.5 cm) were verbally instructed to complete three 40-m sprints at each of 60, 70, 80, and 90% of Vmax in a randomized order. Percentage Vmax achieved during each sprint was compared with criterion velocities calculated from Vmax testing undertaken a week prior. Players underestimated (ran faster) their sprint velocity when asked to run at 60% (very large to extremely large mean bias, 23%" range, 57–88% Vmax), 70% (large to very large, 11%" 67–93% Vmax), and 80% (small, 2%" 71–91% Vmax) of their Vmax, whereas overestimated (ran slower) their sprint velocity when asked to run at 90% Vmax (moderate, 24%" 77–95% Vmax). Team sport players may require objective feedback when performing submaximal sprinting to ensure that velocities achieved are similar to those prescribed. This may be particularly important where graded exposure to maximum velocities is required, for example during rehabilitation or warm-ups.

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Citation
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 36(8), p. 2218-2222
ISSN
1533-4287
1064-8011
Start page
2218
End page
2222

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