Relationships between Internal Training Intensity and Well-Being Changes in Youth Football Players Silva, Rui Miguel González Fernández, Francisco Tomás Athletic performance Hooper Index Load monitoring Perceived exertion Soccer Testing Wellness The aim of this study was two-fold: (i) to analyze the variations of training intensity and well-being measures of youth football player over a 38 week period; and (ii) to test the relationships between training intensity and well-being variations throughout a youth football season. This study followed a longitudinal design, lasting 38 weeks. Twenty-five players (age: 15.0 +/- 0.4 years) participated in this study. Participants were monitored daily to quantify the training intensity (TI) using the session-rate of perceived exertion (s-RPE) and its related indices: training monotony (TM), weekly training intensity (wTI), mean training intensity (mTI), and 5-day average (5d-AVG). A four-item questionnaire was collected daily to quantify the well-being status of each player. Fatigue, stress, delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), sleep quality, and the Hooper Index (HI) measures were analyzed. Kruskal-Wallis H test revealed significant differences for TM, mTI, wTI and 5d-AVG (H = 359.53, p = 0.001, eta 2 = 0.35; H = 414.97, p = 0.001, eta 2 = 0.41, H = 258.42, p = 0.001, eta 2 = 0.24 and H = 282.18, p = 0.001, eta 2 = 0.26). A positive large correlation was found between TM and sleep quality (r = 0.65, p = 0.05) and a negative large correlation between mTI and sleep quality (r = -0.69, p = 0.04). In conclusion, both TI and well-being measures present significant between-week differences at different periods of the season. Also, the variations of sleep quality seem to depend on TM and mTI variations across a youth football season. 2022-11-18T12:01:11Z 2022-11-18T12:01:11Z 2022-09-21 journal article Silva, R.M... [et al.]. Relationships between Internal Training Intensity andWell-Being Changes in Youth Football Players. Healthcare 2022, 10, 1814. [https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101814] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78041 10.3390/healthcare10101814 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI