Dissertation
Defining and Quantifying Load and Fatigue in the Rugby Football Codes: Determining the Role of Collisions in the External Load to Fatigue Relationship
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00741
Abstract
Background: Team-based contact sports such as rugby league, rugby union, and rugby sevens (collectively termed ‘rugby’) are considered stochastic and intermittent, with players completing periods of low intensity activity including walking or low speed running, interspersed with high-intensity activities including high speed running, changes of direction, rapid accelerations and decelerations, and tackles. These various activities (encompassed under the term ‘external load’) completed during training and match-play induce complex psycho-physiological and biomechanical responses (termed ‘internal load’) that post-match require a period of time to return to pre-match levels (termed ‘fatigue’). Whilst the locomotor activities of match-play and their importance to fatigue has been well described, understanding the role of collisions (e.g., tackles, rucks, ball carries etc.) in the external load to fatigue relationship in the rugby codes is an emerging area of research. Fatigue in rugby is inherently complex and not well defined or characterised, having been primarily quantified using multiple objective and subjective methods and metrics pre-, and post-match. The overall aim of this programme of research was to determine how collisions, external load, and fatigue are and should be quantified, and the role that collisions play in the match-play external load to post-match fatigue relationship in adult male rugby players.
Details
- Title
- Defining and Quantifying Load and Fatigue in the Rugby Football Codes: Determining the Role of Collisions in the External Load to Fatigue Relationship
- Authors
- Mitchell Naughton - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
- Contributors
- Colin Solomon (Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Sports & Exercise Science
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00741
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Sports & Exercise Science; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99704998802621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
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