Monitoring the training intensity and recovery with a psychometrics approach: a gender comparison with young athletes

Cruz, Ramon; Alves, Danilo L.; Azevedo, Rafael; Bertuzzi, Romulo; De-Oliveira, Fernando R.; Lima, Jorge R.P.

doi:10.1590/S1980-6574201700030024

Abstract

AIMS

The purpose of present study was verify if the RPE-training session differs between females and males during the track and field training and if biological maturity (BM) has interference on this response.

METHODS

Seventy-five athletes (13-15 years old) have participated of study, with 38 male 37 female. Five training sessions of track and field were prescribe and monitoring by RPE-training session (intensity) and Total Quality Recovery (TQR) (recovery).

RESULTS

There was no statistical difference between males and females on 75-meters run, long jump and shot put. Otherwise, for training of 250 and 1000-meters females related higher RPE-values than males 3.68 ± 0.79, 3.26 ± 0.56, p < 0.01 and 4.14 ± 0.94, 3.72 ± 0.89, p < 0.05; respectively. Even when controlling the effect of biological maturity the same results were observed to 250-meters F_1,73 = 2.060; p = 0.002 and 1000-meters F_1,73 = 0.997; p = 0.036. There was no difference for TQR between genders.

CONCLUSION

The comparison the RPE-training session of females and males indicated there were difference to 250 and 1000-m training sessions, females have more RPE-training sessions than males. Additionally, there were no differences between genders for recovery parameters, even controlling BM.

Keywords
biological maturity; RPE; TQR; training; adolescent

[1] Corresponding author
Ramon Cruz. Address: Departamento de Esporte . Escola de Educação Física e Esporte da Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Prof. Melo de Morais, 65, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, CEP: 05371-140, Brazil. ramoncruz@usp.br

Duration	75 m	Long Jump	250 m	Shot Put	1000 m
15	Warm-Up
90	Technical of High Speed Running Short Sprints Running.	Drills for jumps, Series of jumps.	Technical of Speed Running, Long Sprints Running.	Drills for shot put, Exercises to Shot Put Technique, Throw Resistance training.	Technical of long distance running, Continuous running, Fartlek.
15	Active Recovery

	Females	Males
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	p value
Age (years)	14.55 ± 0.82	14.30 ± 0.85	0.29
Weight (kg)	53.25 ± 8.09	58.31 ± 14.04	0.04
Height (cm)	162.20 ± 7.35	169.08 ± 9.29	< 0.01
Sum of SF (mm)	44.29 ± 12.88	31.59 ± 15.65	< 0.01
PPMS (%)	98.00 ± 1.49	94.26 ± 4.19	< 0.01
TQR
75 m (s)	15.84 ± 1.61	15.97 ± 1.52	0.50
Long Jump (m)	15.81 ± 1.56	15.89 ± 1.83	0.99
250 m (s)	15.30 ± 1.61	15.87 ± 1.89	0.14
Shot Put (m)	15.57 ± 1.71	15.82 ± 1.80	0.77
1000 m (s)	15.46 ± 1.61	15.61 ± 1.82	0.91