PMID- 29910279 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200930 IS - 2075-4663 (Electronic) IS - 2075-4663 (Linking) VI - 4 IP - 2 DP - 2016 May 30 TI - Heart Rate Responses during Small Sided Games and Official Match-Play in Soccer. LID - 10.3390/sports4020031 [doi] LID - 31 AB - Small sided games (SSGs) are a match specific type of training. In addition, there is an insufficient number of studies that compare heart rate (HR) responses of SSGs and official match-play (OM). The purpose of this study was to investigate the heart rate responses during SSGs and OM in young soccer players. Twenty-two male soccer players (mean +/- SD; age 17.4 +/- 0.9 years, height 174.9 +/- 6.6 cm, body weight 67.7 +/- 8.1 kg) volunteered to participate in this study. The first session included anthropometric measurements and a maximum running test (RT). Following the RT session, all players participated in five different randomly ordered SSG sessions (3-, 4-, 5-, 7- and 9-a-side with goalkeepers). OMs were also monitored in the fourth week of the study. A one-way multivariate repeated-measures analysis of variance (MANOVA) was then conducted to evaluate the differences between the SSGs and OM. The results showed that 3-a-side elicited significantly higher HR and %HR(max) than other SSGs and OM, whereas 9-a-side resulted in significantly lower HR and %HR(max) compared to other SSG formats and OM (p < 0.05). In conclusion, 3-a-side, 4-a-side and 5-a-side SSG formats provide players with the opportunity to spend sufficient proportion of time spent in high intensity zones that are specific to match demands. FAU - Asci, Alper AU - Asci A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3958-8908 AD - Halic University School of Physical Education and Sport, Istanbul 34330, Turkey. alperascii@gmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160530 PL - Switzerland TA - Sports (Basel) JT - Sports (Basel, Switzerland) JID - 101722684 PMC - PMC5968916 OTO - NOTNLM OT - heart rate OT - small sided games OT - soccer OT - time spent COIS- The author declares no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2016/05/30 00:00 MHDA- 2016/05/30 00:01 PMCR- 2016/05/30 CRDT- 2018/06/19 06:00 PHST- 2016/02/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/05/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2016/05/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/06/19 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/05/30 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/05/30 00:01 [medline] PHST- 2016/05/30 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - sports4020031 [pii] AID - sports-04-00031 [pii] AID - 10.3390/sports4020031 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Sports (Basel). 2016 May 30;4(2):31. doi: 10.3390/sports4020031.