- Title
- Predicting self-reported illness for professional team-sport athletes
- Creator
- Thornton, Heidi R.; Delaney, Jace A.; Duthie, Grant M.; Scott, Brendan R.; Chivers, William J.; Sanctuary, Colin E.; Dascombe, Ben J.
- Relation
- International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance Vol. 11, Issue 4, p. 543-550
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2015-0330
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- The aim of this study was to identify contributing factors to the incidence of illness for professional team-sport athletes, utilizing training load (TL), self-reported illness and wellbeing data. Thirty-two professional rugby league players (26.0 ± 4.8 yr; 99.1 ± 9.6 kg; 1.84 ± 0.06 m) were recruited from the same club. Players participated in prescribed training and responded to a series of questionnaires to determine the presence of self-reported illness and markers of wellbeing. Internal-TL was determined using the session rating of perceived exertion (sRPE) method. These data were collected over 29 weeks, across the preparatory and competition macrocycles.The predictive models developed recognized increases in internal-TL (strain values of >2282 AU, weekly-TL >2786 AU and monotony >0.78 AU) to best predict when athletes are at increased risk of self-reported illness. In addition, a reduction in overall wellbeing (<7.25 AU) in the presence of increased internal-TL as previously stated, was highlighted as a contributor to self-reported illness occurrence.These results indicate that self-report data can be successfully utilized to provide a novel understanding of the interactions between competition-associated stressors experienced by professional team-sport athletes and their susceptibility to illness. This may assist coaching staff to more effectively monitor players during the season and to potentially implement preventative measures to reduce the likelihood of illnesses occurring.
- Subject
- URTI; predictive modeling; rugby league; wellness; sRPE
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1345761
- Identifier
- uon:29722
- Identifier
- ISSN:1555-0265
- Language
- eng
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