Identification of Potential Performance-Related Predictors in Young Competitive Athletes
IntroductionSystematic training is an essential demand for the individual success of an athlete. However, similar training modalities cause individual responses, and finally, decide on athletes’ success or failure. To predict performance development, potential influencing parameters should be known....
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| description | IntroductionSystematic training is an essential demand for the individual success of an athlete. However, similar training modalities cause individual responses, and finally, decide on athletes’ success or failure. To predict performance development, potential influencing parameters should be known. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify performance-related parameters in young competitive athletes.MethodsIndividual performance developments of 146 young athletes (m: n = 96, f: n = 50, age V1: 14.7 ± 1.7 years) of four different sports (soccer: n = 45, cycling: n = 48, swimming: n = 18, cross-country skiing: n = 35) were evaluated by analysis of 356 visits in total (exercise intervention periods, 289 ± 112 d). At V1 and V2 several performance parameters were determined. Based on the relative performance progress (Δ), potential influencing predictors were analyzed: training load, health sense, stress level, clinical complaints, hemoglobin, vitamin D, hs-CRP and EBV serostatus. Data were collected within a controlled, prospective study on young athletes, which was conducted between 2010 and 2014.ResultsAthletes improved their performance by 4.7 ± 10.7%. In total, 66.3% of all athletes represented a positive performance progress. This group demonstrated, despite similar training loads (p = 0.207), enhanced health senses (p = 0.001) and lower stress levels (p = 0.002). In contrast, compared to athletes with an impaired performance progress, no differences in hemoglobin values (m: p = 0.926, f: p = 0.578), vitamin D levels (0.787) and EBV serostatus (p = 0.842) were found. Performance progress was dependent on extents of health senses (p = 0.040) and stress levels (p = 0.045). Furthermore, the combination of declined health senses and rised stress levels was associated with an impaired performance development (p = 0.018) and higher prevalences of clinical complaints (p < 0.001) above all, in contrast to hs-CRP (p = 0.168).DiscussionAthletes with an improved performance progress reported less pronounced subjective sensations and complaints. In contrast, objective known performance-related indicators, offered no differences. Therefore, subjective self-reported data, reflecting health and stress status, should be additionally considered to regulate training, modify intensities, and finally, predict and ensure an optimal performance advance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bf7dfcc3ffb94345afbbd0dbc3f1f2712022-12-21T21:47:03ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Physiology1664-042X2019-11-011010.3389/fphys.2019.01394485413Identification of Potential Performance-Related Predictors in Young Competitive AthletesKatharina Blume0Katharina Blume1Bernd Wolfarth2Bernd Wolfarth3Department of Sports Medicine, Humboldt University of Berlin/Charité University Medicine, Berlin, GermanyZentrum für Innere Medizin, Klinikum Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GermanyDepartment of Sports Medicine, Humboldt University of Berlin/Charité University Medicine, Berlin, GermanyInstitute for Applied Training Science (IAT), Leipzig, GermanyIntroductionSystematic training is an essential demand for the individual success of an athlete. However, similar training modalities cause individual responses, and finally, decide on athletes’ success or failure. To predict performance development, potential influencing parameters should be known. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify performance-related parameters in young competitive athletes.MethodsIndividual performance developments of 146 young athletes (m: n = 96, f: n = 50, age V1: 14.7 ± 1.7 years) of four different sports (soccer: n = 45, cycling: n = 48, swimming: n = 18, cross-country skiing: n = 35) were evaluated by analysis of 356 visits in total (exercise intervention periods, 289 ± 112 d). At V1 and V2 several performance parameters were determined. Based on the relative performance progress (Δ), potential influencing predictors were analyzed: training load, health sense, stress level, clinical complaints, hemoglobin, vitamin D, hs-CRP and EBV serostatus. Data were collected within a controlled, prospective study on young athletes, which was conducted between 2010 and 2014.ResultsAthletes improved their performance by 4.7 ± 10.7%. In total, 66.3% of all athletes represented a positive performance progress. This group demonstrated, despite similar training loads (p = 0.207), enhanced health senses (p = 0.001) and lower stress levels (p = 0.002). In contrast, compared to athletes with an impaired performance progress, no differences in hemoglobin values (m: p = 0.926, f: p = 0.578), vitamin D levels (0.787) and EBV serostatus (p = 0.842) were found. Performance progress was dependent on extents of health senses (p = 0.040) and stress levels (p = 0.045). Furthermore, the combination of declined health senses and rised stress levels was associated with an impaired performance development (p = 0.018) and higher prevalences of clinical complaints (p < 0.001) above all, in contrast to hs-CRP (p = 0.168).DiscussionAthletes with an improved performance progress reported less pronounced subjective sensations and complaints. In contrast, objective known performance-related indicators, offered no differences. Therefore, subjective self-reported data, reflecting health and stress status, should be additionally considered to regulate training, modify intensities, and finally, predict and ensure an optimal performance advance.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2019.01394/fullathletecompetitive sportinterventiontraining loadhealthstress |
| spellingShingle | Katharina Blume Katharina Blume Bernd Wolfarth Bernd Wolfarth Identification of Potential Performance-Related Predictors in Young Competitive Athletes Frontiers in Physiology athlete competitive sport intervention training load health stress |
| title | Identification of Potential Performance-Related Predictors in Young Competitive Athletes |
| title_full | Identification of Potential Performance-Related Predictors in Young Competitive Athletes |
| title_fullStr | Identification of Potential Performance-Related Predictors in Young Competitive Athletes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identification of Potential Performance-Related Predictors in Young Competitive Athletes |
| title_short | Identification of Potential Performance-Related Predictors in Young Competitive Athletes |
| title_sort | identification of potential performance related predictors in young competitive athletes |
| topic | athlete competitive sport intervention training load health stress |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2019.01394/full |
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