Repeated Interval Loughborough Soccer Passing Tests: An Ecologically Valid Motor Task to Induce Mental Fatigue in Soccer

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dc.citation.volume12
dc.contributor.authorBian C
dc.contributor.authorAli A
dc.contributor.authorNassis GP
dc.contributor.authorLi Y
dc.contributor.editorTrecroci A
dc.coverage.spatialSwitzerland
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-18T02:44:01Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-04T01:41:31Z
dc.date.available2022-01-20
dc.date.available2023-08-18T02:44:01Z
dc.date.available2023-09-04T01:41:31Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-20
dc.date.updated2023-08-18T02:16:17Z
dc.description.abstractMost studies investigating mental fatigue (MF) in soccer utilized a computerized Stroop task to induce MF. However, the traditional key-pressing task has been challenged for its lack of ecological validity. The limited relevance to real-life soccer made it difficult to bridge the gap between the research and the applied setting. Therefore, a novel soccer-specific inducing task is in urgent need. This study compared a novel MF-inducing task in soccer with the Stroop task and investigated the impact of induced MF on cognitive and soccer-specific skill performance. A randomized, counterbalanced crossover design was employed. Fifteen well-trained male soccer players randomly participated in three MF-inducing tasks. Two of them were motor tasks consisting of 10 repeated interval Loughborough Soccer Passing Test (10xLSPT or LSPT) in clockwise passing order (10xC-LSPT) with each block starting every 2 min. The two tasks share the same movement pattern, but C-LSPT is considered to have lower cognitive demands. The third was the 20-min Stroop task (Stroop-20). MF was assessed immediately before and after each task by visual analog scale (VAS), the cognitive performance in a 3-min Stroop task, and the skill performance in one LSPT. Subjective MF increased similarly after 10xLSPT and Stroop-20 (+ 25.4 ± 10.3 vs. + 23.4 ± 10.8 AU, p = 0.607). The induced MF by 10xLSPT and Stroop-20 had no impact on cognitive performance and movement time but similarly affected in a significantly negative manner on penalty time (+ 5.9 ± 4.9 vs. + 5.4 ± 4.2 s, p = 0.748) and passing accuracy (-1.4 ± 1.5 vs. -1.0 ± 1.3, p = 0.465). Two motor tasks shared similar intensity, but 10xC-LSPT was inefficient to induce MF. The results showed that the 20-min repeated interval LSPT could induce a similar MF as the Stroop task. The induced MF had detrimental effects on soccer skill performance. The novel motor task is recommended for MF studies in soccer as an inducement task. Practitioners should be cautious about the prolonged cognitive-demanding skill section of the pre-match warm-up to avoid the negative effect of MF on the upcoming match. This motor task pattern could be followed as a supplementary training protocol.
dc.description.confidentialfalse
dc.edition.editionJanuary 2022
dc.format.extent803528-
dc.identifierARTN 803528
dc.identifierhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35126183
dc.identifier.citationBian C, Ali A, Nassis GP, Li Y. (2021). Repeated Interval Loughborough Soccer Passing Tests: An Ecologically Valid Motor Task to Induce Mental Fatigue in Soccer.. Front Physiol. 12. (pp. 803528-).
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fphys.2021.803528
dc.identifier.eissn1664-042X
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1664-042X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/19979
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S A
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.803528/full
dc.relation.isPartOfFront Physiol
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectLSPT
dc.subjectcognitive
dc.subjectinducement
dc.subjectskill
dc.subjectsoccer-specific
dc.titleRepeated Interval Loughborough Soccer Passing Tests: An Ecologically Valid Motor Task to Induce Mental Fatigue in Soccer
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id450999
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