Fig. 1

Weekly acute (A); chronic workload (B); weekly acute-to-chronic workload ratio (C); weekly training monotony (D), and training stain (E) meso-cycle patterns and comparisons over each period during a competition season considering field position and whole team. * represents a statistically significant difference comparing with Ear-S (p < 0.05); $ represents a statistically significant difference comparing with Mid-S (p < 0.05); AU. arbitrary units; WD. wide defenders; WG: wingers; DF. defenders; CM. central midfielders; FW: forwards; EarS: early-season; MidS: mid-season; EndS: end-season; AWL. weekly acute workload; CWL. weekly chronic workload; ACWLR. weekly acute-to-chronic workload ratio; TM: weekly training monotony; TS: weekly training strain