Join Catapult’s Connor Howley as he talks through how long it takes soccer players to recover after matches.
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Hi, my name is Connor Howley and I’m a
product support technician here at Catapult who is going
to take you through a query surrounding football recovery.
So we’ve got a question here from one
of our users, which is; How long does
it take players to recover post match?
So Silva et al in 2018 conducted a systematic
review looking at the effect size of performance
markers at different intervals, which were during an
dematches, and they compared these against baseline measures.
They found a large effect size looking
at creatine kinase and delayed onset muscle
soreness 24 hours post-match.
They also found moderate effect sizes when looking
at hamstring strength and counter movement jump height
48 hours post-match, there was still a moderate
effect on hamstring strength, creatine kinase and delayed
onset muscle soreness, and also small effect sizes
were seen in quadricep strength, linear sprint performance
and countermovement jump performance.
72 hours postmatch, there was still a
moderate effect size in hamstring strength and
countermovement jump performance, while the remaining
performance markers showed as small or trivial.
As Silva et al. states
while some parameters are fully recovered,
a 72 hours period is still not
long enough for complete homeostasis.
Generally in sports like association football, it is unlikely
that players will ever receive this long to recover
before preparation for the next game starts.
As such, coaches must adjust structure and content
of sessions in a 72 hours window to
respect recovery while ramping towards conditioning sessions.
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