Sleep Indices and Cardiac Autonomic Activity Responses during an International Tournament in a Youth National Soccer Team

Autor: Michele Lastella, João Morais, Júlio Costa, João Brito, Pedro Figueiredo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume 18
Issue 4
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 2076, p 2076 (2021)
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18042076
Popis: This study aimed to describe habitual sleep and nocturnal cardiac autonomic activity (CAA), and their relationship with training/match load in male youth soccer players during an international tournament. Eighteen elite male youth soccer players (aged 14.8 ± 0.3 years
mean ± SD) participated in the study. Sleep indices were measured using wrist actigraphy, and heart rate (HR) monitors were used to measure CAA during night-sleep throughout 5 consecutive days. Training and match loads were characterized using the session-rating of perceived exertion (s-RPE). During the five nights 8 to 17 players slept less than <
8 h and only one to two players had a sleep efficiency <
75%. Players’ sleep duration coefficient of variation (CV) ranged between 4 and 17%. Nocturnal heart rate variability (HRV) indices for the time-domain analyses ranged from 3.8 (95% confidence interval, 3.6
4.0) to 4.1 ln[ms] (3.9
4.3) and for the frequency-domain analyses ranged from 5.9 (5.6
6.5) to 6.6 (6.3
7.4). Time-domain HRV CV ranged from 3 to 10% and frequency-domain HRV ranged from 2 to 12%. A moderate within-subjects correlation was found between s-RPE and sleep duration [r = −0.41 (−0.62
−0.14)
p = 0.003]. The present findings suggest that youth soccer players slept less than the recommended during the international tournament, and sleep duration was negatively associated with training/match load.
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