Building on previous studies in adult soccer players ⚽️🩸📊 ➡️journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/… ➡️journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/… our findings confirm the practical value of using HRex to monitor fitness changes in youth soccer players✅ Many thanks to ᴍᴀʀᴛɪɴ ʙᴜᴄʜʜᴇɪᴛ Dr. Ludwig Ruf 🙏 TSG ResearchLab

Great lab tour to the 🏔 exchanging views about innovations, training & testing in sports ⚽️🏒🏋️‍♀️🏃‍♂️🧠 Thanks to FC Bayern Campus FC Red Bull Salzburg Red Bull #athleteperformancecenter for the open discussions! Adam Beavan, PhD @pa_ehmann Stefan Altmann

We were happy to welcome a group of 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 from the Universität Saarland master's programme in High Performance Sports. Several team members presented their research and work to the students followed by an exciting Q&A🧠⚽️🏋️ #science #sports #physiology #psychology

New paper published📰 Which methods can practitioners use to determine growth and biological maturity of their youth athletes? [in German] 📈⚽️🏀🏈🎾 #talentID ▶️ eyeballing 👀 ▶️ estimating somatic maturity 📏 ▶️ measuring skeletal age 🔬 Full-text: tinyurl.com/yw2e7tjd

This might be of interest for everyone working in youth sports #biological #maturity 👇 Fee Beyer

📢 Submission deadline extended until 15/09/22! Research Topic *Exercise & Performance Assessment in Soccer* ⚽️🏋️‍♂️🏃‍♂️📊🔬 ➡️ Benchmark values ➡️ Talent ID ➡️ Method comparisons ➡️ Many more Edited by footballscience, Stacey Emmonds PhD & me More info: fro.ntiers.in/soccer Frontiers - Sports and Active Living

The ⚽️ season comes to an end but before we all go 🏖️🌄🏝️ please help and RT 🙏🙏... We're running with Kitman Labs a quick 'behind the scenes' survey on Return To Play to investigate the real (vs the ideal) practices 😁🙏🙏 👇👇👇 bit.ly/39Kvac7

All presentations done at World Conference on Science and Soccer 2022 🧑‍🎓🏫⚽️ Very well done Maximiliane Thron, leander forcher & Leon Forcher 👏 ➡️ testing aerobic capacity using field tests 🩸🧪🏃‍♂️ ➡️ analysing defensive play and formation changes during matches 🔄📊📈 Looking forward to further presentations & discussions!

New 📰 published JSAMS in collaboration with #dfine 📢 Injury incidence, severity, and burden in elite youth soccer players – A 3-year prospective study 🤕🏃‍♂️⚽️ 50 days access to full-text ➡️ authors.elsevier.com/a/1fLEA57UJnKa… Dr. Ludwig Ruf Stefan Altmann

Subjective prediction of biological maturity 📊 in youth ⚽️ players Sci & Med Football Coach & staff predictions 👀 vs SonicBone data 🔬 were ✅ acceptable on average ❌ highly variable for individuals Dr. Ludwig Ruf Stefan Altmann 📰tinyurl.com/2wf9ccdz More info 👇 1/5

What initially started as an education tool quickly turned into a research idea and study. That was a super cool project! Thanks for everybody involved including coaches and players. Summary and some nice looking graphs below 👇

How do agility events during Australian football look like? 🏉🏃‍♂️⤴️🧠 ➡️ technique ➡️ COD angle ➡️ approach speed ➡️ cognitive demands ➡️ attackers vs defenders By @russellrayner, Warren Young & Scott Talpey PhD 👏 📰 Full-text: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Findings & applications 👇 1/8

#AvailableOnline ⚽️ "Soccer coaches vs. sport science and medicine staff: who can more accurately predict the skeletal age of high-level youth soccer players?" by Dr. Ludwig Ruf Stefan Altmann TSG ResearchLab Find it here 👇 bit.ly/3PUgAi4

#AvailableOnline ⚽️ "Assessing the usefulness of submaximal exercise heart rates for monitoring cardiorespiratory fitness changes in elite youth soccer players" by Stefan Altmann; Dr. Ludwig Ruf; ᴍᴀʀᴛɪɴ ʙᴜᴄʜʜᴇɪᴛ Find it here 👇 bit.ly/3vdnGGI

Was fun to present our physiology research at our lab‘s staff meeting together with Dr. Ludwig Ruf ✅ match analysis ✅ testing & training speed and endurance ✅ biological maturation ✅ biomarkers & regeneration ✅ monitoring load & response ✅ injuries ✅ talent selection

This paper aimed 🎯 to investigate age-related injury incidence, severity, and burden over a 3-year period in age groups from U14 to U19 elite male soccer players in a German youth academy 🇩🇪 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.jsam… #soccer #JSAMS TSG ResearchLab Dr. Ludwig Ruf Stefan Altmann

Responses to a training camp in youth soccer ⚽️🏃‍♂️🏋️‍♂️ Int'l Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance ✅ Short recovery and stress scale & sub-maximal runs to monitor psycho-physiological responses ❌ CMJ may provide little insight Dr. Ludwig Ruf Stefan Altmann Sabrina Skorski Barry Drust 📰 journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/…

External match load in Swiss soccer (U18 vs U21 vs 1st team) 🇨🇭⚽️🏃‍♂️📊 In our study by Linda Ammann, Dr. Ludwig Ruf & Billy Sperlich, we found ➡️ large inter-individual variability in load ➡️ higher load in the 1st team compared to U18 & U21 📰frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Frontiers - Physiology

Published: Psychophysiological Responses to a Preseason Training Camp in High-Level Youth Soccer Players by Dr. Ludwig Ruf, Stefan Altmann, Sascha Härtel, Sabrina Skorski, Barry Drust & Tim Meyer journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/…

Overview article on agility in team sports, German journal "Leistungssport" 🤾‍♂️⛹️‍♀️⚽️🏀🏉💡🧠 Based on the articles in the thread below, we discuss ▶️ agility as part of game speed ▶️ importance in team sports ▶️ testing & training 📰researchgate.net/publication/36… More info below 🇩🇪👇