Aerobic Conditioning for Team Sport Athletes

• Published in: Sports medicine (Auckland) Vol. 39; no. 8; pp. 615 - 642
• Main Authors: Stone, Nicholas M., Kilding, Andrew E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.01.2009; Adis International; Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aerobic exercises; Athletes; Biological and medical sciences; Competitive Behavior; Exercise; Field hockey; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Group games; Health aspects; Heart rate; Humans; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolism; Oxygen Consumption; Physical Fitness; Physiological aspects; Physiology; Review Article; Rugby; Soccer; Sports - physiology; Sports Medicine; Team sports; Vertebrates: body movement. Posture. Locomotion. Flight. Swimming. Physical exercise. Rest. Sports; United States; Soccer Player; Team Sport; Lactate Threshold; Rugby League; Aerobic Fitness; Human; Physical fitness; Physical performance; Team sport; Aerobe; Conditioning; Athlete

Team sport athletes require a high level of aerobic fitness in order to generate and maintain power output during repeated high-intensity efforts and to recover. Research to date suggests that these components can be increased by regularly performing aerobic conditioning. Traditional aerobic conditi...