What is it about?
What can be the difference in strength when female footballers step up to first team level? This research delved into the differences in isometric hip (groin/gluteal) strength and isokinetic knee (hamstrings/quadriceps) of professional female female footballers in A and B teams.
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Why is it important?
Sub-elite female footballers may require additional knee flexor and hip strengthening in order to make the step up to the elite level. Those who are younger or have less experience playing fulltime football may also be recommended additional lower limb strengthening ahead of joining a fulltime training environment.
Perspectives
This research allows to see that female footballers may not be prepared for the effect of high intensity, high-level training in an elite first team environment. We should better prepare our female athletes to be stronger in order to make the step-up as safe as possible.
Ferdia Fallon Verbruggen
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This page is a summary of: Lower limb strength and training experience in elite and sub-elite female footballers, Isokinetics and Exercise Science, January 2024, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/ies-230038.
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