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Table 1 Mean, standard deviations, repeated ANOVA and effect size results for training load metrics across different microcycles

From: Within-week differences in external training load demands in elite volleyball players

Variables

MD-5

MD-4

MD-3

MD-2

MD-1

MD

MD-T

MD + 1

F

p

Source of Difference*

\({\eta }^{2}\) Effect Size

Workload (A.U)

872.47 ± 155.77

974.16 ± 91.37

845.31 ± 73.11

890.7 ± 71.08

710.4 ± 49.45

627.48 ± 192.91

295.13 ± 41.74

846.82 ± 59.91

91.57

0.000

(MD), (MD-1) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD-T), (MD + 1); (MD-2) – (MD-3) – (MD-4) – (MD-T); (MD-4) – (MD-T) – (MD + 1); (MD-5) – (MD-T)

0.800 (Large)

LPS Total Distance (m)

3682.54 ± 440.43

4376.83 ± 379.72

3762.66 ± 355.15

3630.39 ± 391.26

3125.80 ± 298.58

2705.46 ± 454.54

2766.62 ± 679.97

3451.68 ± 393.96

71.93

0.000

(MD) – (MD-1) – (MD-2) – (MD-3) – (MD-4) – (MD + 1); (MD-5) – (MD), (MD-1), (MD-4); (MD-T) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD + 1)

0.604 (Large)

LPS Jumps (N)

100.09 ± 49.18

99.85 ± 43.28

108.91 ± 50.41

103.09 ± 45.06

88.21 ± 39.38

67.31 ± 31.84

66.41 ± 35.71

104.06 ± 48.41

17.00

0.000

(MD) – (MD-1), (MD-5); (MD), (MD-1) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD + 1); (MD-T) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4)

0.123 (Moderate)

Acceleration (m/s− 2)

120.01 ± 32.55

119.72 ± 30.19

124.91 ± 31.47

122.49 ± 31.55

103.59 ± 23.95

82.13 ± 29.52

83.39 ± 37.61

116.98 ± 31.98

28.16

0.000

(MD) – (MD-1), (MD-5); (MD), (MD-1) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD + 1); (MD-T) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD + 1); (MD-3) – (MD + 1)

0.227 (Large)

Deceleration (m/s− 2)

102.79 ± 31.69

103.78 ± 27.67

111.01 ± 33.01

106.53 ± 29.95

89.04 ± 23.48

68.30 ± 25.75

69.89 ± 34.03

102.87 ± 31.31

24.62

0.000

(MD) – (MD-1), (MD-5); (MD), (MD-1) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD + 1); (MD-T) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD + 1)

0.229 (Large)

HMLD

(m)

1040.09 ± 283.25

1153.15 ± 305.38

1072.24 ± 275.94

1065.14 ± 284.45

933.29 ± 240.87

891.56 ± 250.56

942.55 ± 309.02

1004.89 ± 270.16

14.95

0.000

(MD), (MD-1) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5); (MD + 1) – (MD-1), (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4); (MD-4) – (MD-3), (MD-T)

0.084 (Moderate)

Acute Mean Load (EWMA)

814.51 ± 113.41

808.26 ± 73.89

946.62 ± 81.42

913.44 ± 82.08

867.84 ± 71.28

818.39 ± 96.08

820.87 ± 116.54

911.27 ± 78.83

22.73

0.000

(MD) – (MD-3), (MD + 1); (MD-2) – (MD), (MD-1), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD-T); (MD-3) – (MD + 1); (MD + 1), (MD-3) – (MD-1), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD-T);

0.256 (Large)

Chronic Mean Load (EWMA)

730.19 ± 95.16

759.41 ± 69.88

792.94 ± 73.23

795.33 ± 73.72

787.58 ± 69.02

789.96 ± 74.30

795.34 ± 84.91

793.24 ± 68.20

11.28

0.000

(MD-4) – (MD), (MD-1), (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-T), (MD + 1); (MD-5) – (MD-2), (MD-3)

0.082 (Moderate)

AC Ratio (EWMA)

1.10 ± 0.09

1.06 ± 0.05

1.20 ± 0.00

1.14 ± 0.05

1.10 ± 0.00

1.03 ± 0.05

1.03 ± 0.08

1.14 ± 0.05

17.00

0.000

(MD) – (MD-1), (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD + 1); (MD-1), (MD-3) – (MD-2), (MD-4), (MD-T), (MD + 1); (MD-2), (MD + 1) – (MD-4), (MD-T); (MD-3) – (MD-1), (MD-5)

0.526 (Large)

Monotony (A.U)

1.46 ± 0.25

1.33 ± 0.05

1.36 ± 0.08

1.34 ± 0.08

1.43 ± 0.08

1.47 ± 0.13

1.54 ± 0.13

1.4 ± 0.09

7.30

0.000

(MD), (MD-1) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4); (MD-T) – (MD-1), (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD + 1)

0.245 (Large)

Strain (A.U)

9432.29 ± 2429.85

8072.37 ± 824.00

8714.29 ± 901.86

8117.93 ± 941.81

8465.03 ± 893.17

8654.19 ± 1430.68

8910.51 ± 1753.35

8582.71 ± 990.25

3.37

0.055

-

0.086 (Moderate)

Stand Workload (A.U)

7.34 ± 0.82

7.31 ± 0.54

7.19 ± 0.59

7.37 ± 0.53

6.79 ± 0.48

5.39 ± 1.20

4.58 ± 0.53

7.19 ± 0.45

64.46

0.000

(MD) – (MD-1), (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD + 1); (MD-1) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD + 1); (MD-T) – (MD-1), (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD + 1)

0.695 (Large)

Stand_LPS Total Distance (m/min)

34.34 ± 4.70

34.58 ± 2.96

34.76 ± 3.31

32.87 ± 7.69

30.23 ± 2.84

27.70 ± 4.12

44.00 ± 11.68

30.46 ± 3.37

13.64

0.000

(MD), (MD-1) – (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD-T); (MD + 1) – (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-T)

0.397 (Large)

Stand_LPS Jumps (N/min)

0.94 ± 0.49

0.79 ± 0.35

1.05 ± 0.47

0.93 ± 0.43

0.86 ± 0.39

0.68 ± 0.28

1.12 ± 0.61

0.94 ± 0.43

6.65

0.005

(MD) – (MD-1), (MD + 1); (MD-3) – (MD), (MD-1), (MD-4), (MD + 1); (MD-4) – (MD-1), (MD + 1)

0.088 (Moderate)

Stand_ Acceleration (N/min)

1.11 ± 0.33

0.94 ± 0.24

1.15 ± 0.30

1.12 ± 0.43

1.01 ± 0.24

0.78 ± 0.25

1.31 ± 0.64

1.04 ± 0.28

23.26

0.006

(MD) – (MD-1), (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD-T), (MD + 1); (MD-3) – (MD-1), (MD-4), (MD + 1)

0.153 (Large)

Stand_ Deceleration (N/min)

0.94 ± 0.29

0.81 ± 0.21

1.03 ± 0.28

0.96 ± 0.38

0.86 ± 0.22

0.64 ± 0.22

1.10 ± 0.58

0.91 ± 0.28

6.51

0.007

(MD) – (MD-1), (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD + 1); (MD-3) – (MD-1), (MD-4), (MD + 1)

0.150 (Large)

Stand_ HMLD (m/min)

9.99 ± 3.04

9.15 ± 2.43

9.89 ± 2.61

9.76 ± 3.68

9.03 ± 2.36

9.36 ± 2.70

15.29 ± 5.2

8.86 ± 2.4

18.36

0.000

(MD-T) – (MD), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD + 1); (MD-3) – (MD-1), (MD-4), (MD + 1)

0.293 (Large)

Accel Max (m/s− 2)

16.41 ± 4.91

38.23 ± 4.49

81.46 ± 5.88

101.44 ± 9.51

138.62 ± 10.62

77.06 ± 10.29

26.01 ± 4.11

65.84 ± 7.92

741.86

0.000

(MD), (MD-3) – (MD-1), (MD-2), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD-T), (MD + 1); (MD-1) – (MD-2) – (MD-4) – (MD-5) – (MD-T) – (MD + 1)

0.964 (Large)

Decel Max (m/s− 2)

-2.91 ± 0.30

-2.90 ± 0.30

-2.90 ± 0.22

-2.84 ± 0.21

-2.76 ± 0.22

-2.67 ± 0.23

-2.7 ± 0.29

-2.84 ± 0.24

6.23

0.001

(MD) – (MD-3), (MD-4)

0.113 (Moderate)

Max Speed (m/s− 1)

17.34 ± 1.08

17.81 ± 1.09

17.11 ± 0.96

16.94 ± 0.82

16.15 ± 0.78

15.31 ± 0.92

15.53 ± 1.28

16.69 ± 1.13

26.92

0.000

(MD) – (MD-1), (MD + 1); (MD), (MD-1) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5); (MD-4) – (MD-2), (MD + 1); (MD-T) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD-5), (MD + 1)

0.412 (Large)

Acc/ Dec (m/s− 2)

-1.07 ± 0.08

-1.05 ± 0.08

-1.03 ± 0.06

-1.04 ± 0.05

-1.04 ± 0.05

-1.04 ± 0.06

-1.05 ± 0.09

-1.05 ± 0.05

0.82

0.576

-

0.036 (Small)

Accum Acce Load (A.U)

451.34 ± 83.25

495.49 ± 67.02

499.2 ± 79.1

471.85 ± 69.47

405.72 ± 53.63

371.31 ± 77.27

376.17 ± 110.55

482.31 ± 72.59

25.20

0.000

(MD), (MD-1) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD + 1); (MD-2) – (MD-3), (MD-4); (MD-5) – (MD), (MD-3); (MD-T) – (MD-2), (MD-3), (MD-4), (MD + 1)

0.299 (Large)

Acute Mean Load (RA)

820.03 ± 138.42

824.94 ± 74.73

872.91 ± 77.57

838.74 ± 78.22

829.14 ± 71.02

815.11 ± 86.38

810.48 ± 107.8

853.60 ± 75.09

2.75

0.092

-

0.048 (Small)

Chronic Mean Load (RA)

726.08 ± 97.34

780.36 ± 72.13

774.04 ± 73.83

781.11 ± 75.56

768.99 ± 69.34

788.13 ± 72.23

796.09 ± 80.82

772.1 ± 66.76

9.08

0.003

(MD-1) – (MD), (MD-T); (MD-5) – (MD), (MD-4), (MD-T)

0.067 (Moderate)

AC Ratio (RA)

1.11 ± 0.17

1.04 ± 0.05

1.12 ± 0.04

1.09 ± 0.03

1.11 ± 0.03

1.04 ± 0.05

1.05 ± 0.05

1.14 ± 0.06

4.47

0.020

(MD) – (MD-1), (MD-3), (MD + 1); (MD-4) - (MD-1), (MD-3), (MD + 1); (MD-T) – (MD-1), (MD + 1)

0.213 (Large)

  1. MD-5: 5 Days till match day, MD-4: 4 Days till match day, MD-3: 3 Days till match, MD-2: 2 Days till match, MD-1: 1 Day till match, MD: Match Day, MD-T: Match day with training in the morning, MD + 1: The day after the match
  2. * Examples for Source of difference column: (A) – (B) denotes significant differences between A and B; (A)-(B)-(C) denotes significant differences for all possible pairwise combinations for A, B and C. (A)-(B),(C) denotes significant differences between A and B, and also between A and C, (A),(B) – (C) denotes significant differences between A and C, and also between B and C
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