Are motivation and overtraining reliable predictors of burnout in male professional soccer athletes over the course of the season? To answer this question, 32 Brazilian athletes from the same team ...

Can motivation and overtraining predict burnout in professional soccer athletes in different periods of the season

Fields, JB, Lameira, DM, Short, JL, Merrigan, JM, Gallo, S, White, JB, and Jones, MT. Relationship between external load and self-reported wellness measures across a collegiate men's soccer preseason. J Strength Cond Res 35(5): 1182-1186, 2021-Monitoring athlete training load is important to training programming and can help balance training and recovery periods. Furthermore, psychological factors can affect athlete's performance. Therefore, the purpose was to examine the relationship between external load and self-reported wellness measures during soccer preseason. Collegiate men soccer athletes (n = 20; mean ± SD age: 20.3 ± 0.9 years; body mass: 77.9 ± 6.8 kg; body height: 178.87 ± 7.18cm; body fat: 10.0 ± 5.0%; Vo2max: 65.39 ± 7.61ml·kg-1·min-1) participated. Likert scale self-assessments of fatigue, soreness, sleep, stress, and energy were collected daily in conjunction with the Brief Assessment of Mood (vigor, depression, anger, fatigue, and confusion). Total distance (TD), player load (PL), high-speed distance (HSD, >13 mph [5.8 m·s-1]), high inertial movement analysis (IMA, >3.5 m·s-2), and repeated high-intensity efforts (RHIEs) were collected in each training session using positional monitoring (global positioning system/global navigation satellite system [GPS/GNSS]) technology. Session rate of perceived exertion (sRPE) was determined from athlete's post-training rating (Borg CR-10 Scale) and time of training session. Multilevel models revealed the bidirectional prediction of load markers on fatigue, soreness, sleep, energy, and sRPE (p < 0.05). Morning ratings of soreness and fatigue were predicted by previous afternoon's practice measures of TD, PL, HSD, IMA, RHIE, and sRPE. Morning soreness and fatigue negatively predicted that day's afternoon practice TD, PL, HSD, IMA, RHIE, and sRPE. Morning ratings of negative mood were positively predicted by previous day's afternoon practice HSD. In addition, negative morning mood states inversely predicted HSD (p = 0.011), TD (p = 0.002), and PL (p < 0.001) for that day's afternoon practice. Using self-reported wellness measures with GPS/GNSS technology may enhance the understanding of training responses and inform program development.

Relationship Between External Load and Self-Reported Wellness Measures Across a Men's Collegiate Soccer Preseason.

Os objetivos deste estudo foram avaliar os indicadores de burnout em bailarinos dos sexos feminino e masculino e comparar as percepcoes das dimensoes da sindrome de burnout entre os grupos. Os participantes foram 41 bailarinos de ambos os sexos (29 mulheres e 12 homens) vinculados a escolas de ballet e academias/clubes dos municipios de Belo Horizonte e Divinopolis, com idade media de 18,67±5,63 e com tempo medio de pratica de 10,1±2,86 anos. O instrumento utilizado foi o Questionario de Burnout para Atletas (QBA). Os dados foram analisados atraves de estatistica descritiva e dos testes de Shapiro-Wilk , U de Mann-Whitney e Wilcoxon . Os resultados mostraram que os bailarinos de ambos os sexos apresentaram indices baixos e moderados nas dimensoes de burnout e no burnout total. Para ambos os sexos houve diferencas na percepcao da dimensao reduzido senso de realizacao em relacao as dimensoes exaustao fisica e emocional e desvalorizacao esportiva.

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Análise da síndrome de Burnout em bailarinos

Abstract This commentary challenges some of the proposals made in the opinion paper entitled “The expanded interactional model of exercise addiction” by Dinardi, Egorov, and Szabo (2021). We first question the usefulness of the (expanded) interactional model of exercise addiction to determine the psychological processes underlying distress and functional impairment in excessive physical exercise. We then consider the authors’ use of the Self-Determination Theory to model exercise addiction, which risks the misclassification of strenuous, but adaptive, patterns of physical exercise as exercise addiction. We finally address broader concerns regarding the idea that maladaptive exercising could be conceptualized as an addictive disorder.

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On the pitfalls of conceptualizing excessive physical exercise as an addictive disorder: Commentary on Dinardi et al. (2021)

Resumo Este estudo teve como objetivo realizar uma revisao integrativa da producao cientifica nacional acerca do uso de instrumentos de avaliacao psicologica no contexto de orientacao profissional e de carreira no periodo de 2000 a 2017. A busca ocorreu no mes de junho de 2018, utilizando descritores correspondentes a “avaliacao psicologica” e “orientacao profissional” nas bases PePSIC, INDEXPSI, BVS-Psi, BVS-Saude e no Google Academico. Apos a triagem de 1.376 artigos, elegeram-se 79 que atendiam aos criterios de inclusao, como ser estudo empirico com amostra brasileira e ter sido publicado em revistas nacionais. Os resultados indicaram crescimento do numero de publicacoes a partir de 2003, com surgimento de pesquisadores alem do eixo Sul-Sudeste. Foram contabilizados 69 instrumentos nas pesquisas e percebeu-se o inicio de investigacoes pautando temas e publicos nao ligados apenas a escolha profissional, mostrando uma tendencia de expansao da area para alem do contexto escolar. Os instrumentos mais utilizados nas pesquisas foram a Escala de Aconselhamento Profissional, o Questionario de Busca Autodirigida e o Teste de Foto de Profissoes, reforcando a forte tendencia da avaliacao de interesses profissionais na area.

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Instrumentos de Avaliação Psicológica em Orientação de Carreira: Análise da Produção Nacional

Efeito da temporada sobre a percepção da síndrome de burnout por atletas de futebol profissional

Aim: This study aimed to monitor the behavior of the overtraining and motivations dimensions, as well as to verify whether these dimensions correlate in the preparatory and competitive periods over the season. Methods: Professional soccer players (n = 32) answered the Stress and Recovery Questionnaire for Athletes (RESTQ-Sport 76) and the Sport Motivation Scale (SMS) during the preparatory and competitive periods. Results: Intrinsic amotivation and sport-specific recovery were lower in the competitive period than in the preparatory period. In the preseason, motivation presented a strong and negative correlation with overall recovery (p = 0.001; r = −0.75; r2 = 0.56) and sport-specific recovery (p = 0.001; r = −0.72; r2 = 0.52). The amotivation explained in 56% the variance of the results of the overall recovery and 52% of the sport-specific recovery. During the competitive phase, amotivation showed a strong and positive correlation with overall stress (p = 0.001; r = 0.70; r2 = 0.49) and sport-specific stress (p = 0.001; r = 0.79; r2 = 0.62). The amotivation accounted for 49% of the variance in the results of the overall stress and 62% of sport-specific stress in soccer players. Conclusion: There are associations between overtraining and motivation during the investigated periods. Through longitudinal monitoring in professional soccer, it was verified that the dimensions of amotivation, overall recovery, and sport-specific stress could be related to the prevention symptoms of overtraining in a professional soccer team.

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Monitoring of overtraining and motivation in elite soccer players

Observa-se na literatura que o desempenho durante o jogo de futebol varia com a mudanca dos jogadores adversarios. Contudo, desconhece-se se este efeito e observado durante treinos de futebol com pequenos jogos, embora estes apresentem-se em importante meio para o treinamento nesta modalidade. Este estudo objetivou investigar a influencia da mudanca na constituicao da equipe adversaria no comportamento tatico e no desempenho fisico durante pequenos jogos no futebol. Selecionaram-se 18 atletas, divididos em 6 equipes com tres jogadores cada. As equipes equilibradas do ponto de vista tatico, enfrentaram-se ao longo do protocolo de pesquisa jogando na configuracao 3vs3. Avaliou-se o perfil motor e o comportamento tatico coletivo por meio do uso de dispositivos de GPS de 15Hz. Os dados foram analisados por meio do teste t pareado. Nao se observaram alteracoes no desempenho tatico das equipes. Contudo, para os aspectos fisicos, observaram-se diferencas em relacao as distâncias percorridas e aceleracoes. Conclui-se que a alteracao da composicao da equipe adversaria implica em modificacoes comportamentais dos jogadores durante pequenos jogos, devendo esta variavel ser considerada na utilizacao deste meio de treinamento.

Leonardo Henrique Silva Fagundes

Papers

Can motivation and overtraining predict burnout in professional soccer athletes in different periods of the season

Efeito da temporada sobre a percepção da síndrome de burnout por atletas de futebol profissional

Monitoring of overtraining and motivation in elite soccer players

Influência da alteração do adversário nas respostas táticas e físicas em pequenos jogos no futebol