COVID-19 Lockdown: A Global Study Investigating the Effect of Athletes' Sport Classification and Sex on Training Practices
Date
2022Author
Washif, Jad AdrianSandbakk, Oyvind
Seiler, Stephen
Haugen, Thomas
Farooq, Abdulaziz
Quarrie, Ken
Janse van Rensburg, Dina C.
Krug, Isabel
Verhagen, Evert
Wong, Del P.
Mujika, Inigo
Cortis, Cristina
Haddad, Monoem
Ahmadian, Omid
Al Jufaili, Mahmood
Al-Horani, Ramzi A.
Al-Mohannadi, Abdulla Saeed
Aloui, Asma
Ammar, Achraf
Arifi, Fitim
Aziz, Abdul Rashid
Batuev, Mikhail
Beaven, Christopher Martyn
Beneke, Ralph
Bici, Arben
Bishnoi, Pallawi
Bogwasi, Lone
Bok, Daniel
Boukhris, Omar
Boullosa, Daniel
Bragazzi, Nicola
Brito, Joao
Palacios Cartagena, Roxana Paola
Chaouachi, Anis
Cheung, Stephen S.
Chtourou, Hamdi
Cosma, Germina
Debevec, Tadej
DeLang, Matthew D.
Dellal, Alexandre
Donmez, Gurhan
Driss, Tarak
Pena Duque, Juan David
Eirale, Cristiano
Elloumi, Mohamed
Foster, Carl
Franchini, Emerson
Fusco, Andrea
Galy, Olivier
Gastin, Paul B.
Gill, Nicholas
Girard, Olivier
Gregov, Cvita
Halson, Shona
Hammouda, Omar
Hanzlikova, Ivana
Hassanmirzaei, Bahar
Hebert-Losier, Kim
Munoz Helu, Hussein
Herrera-Valenzuela, Tomas
Hettinga, Florentina J.
Holtzhausen, Louis
Hue, Olivier
Dello Iacono, Antonio
Ihalainen, Johanna K.
James, Carl
Joseph, Saju
Kamoun, Karim
Khaled, Mehdi
Khalladi, Karim
Kim, Kwang Joon
Kok, Lian-Yee
MacMillan, Lewis
Mataruna-Dos-Santos, Leonardo Jose
Matsunaga, Ryo
Memishi, Shpresa
Millet, Gregoire P.
Moussa-Chamari, Imen
Musa, Danladi Ibrahim
Nguyen, Hoang Minh Thuan
Nikolaidis, Pantelis T.
Owen, Adam
Padulo, Johnny
Pagaduan, Jeffrey Cabayan
Perera, Nirmala Panagodage
Perez-Gomez, Jorge
Pillay, Lervasen
Popa, Arporn
Pudasaini, Avishkar
Rabbani, Alizera
Rahayu, Tandiyo
Romdhani, Mohamed
Salamh, Paul
Sarkar, Abu-Sufian
Schillinger, Andy
Setyawati, Heny
Shrestha, Navina
Suraya, Fatona
Tabben, Montassar
Trabelsi, Khaled
Urhausen, Axel
Valtonen, Maarit
Weber, Johanna
Whiteley, Rodney
Zrane, Adel
Zerguini, Yacine
Zmijewski, Piotr
Ben Saad, Helmi
Pyne, David B.
Taylor, Lee
Chamari, Karim
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Purpose: To investigate differences in athletes' knowledge, beliefs, and training practices during COVID-19 lockdowns with reference to sport classification and sex. This work extends an initial descriptive evaluation focusing on athlete classification. Methods: Athletes (12,526; 66% male; 142 countries) completed an online survey (May-July 2020) assessing knowledge, beliefs, and practices toward training. Sports were classified as team sports (45%), endurance (20%), power/technical (10%), combat (9%), aquatic (6%), recreational (4%), racquet (3%), precision (2%), parasports (1%), and others (1%). Further analysis by sex was performed. Results: During lockdown, athletes practiced body-weight-based exercises routinely (67% females and 64% males), ranging from 50% (precision) to 78% (parasports). More sport-specific technical skills were performed in combat, parasports, and precision (?50%) than other sports (?35%). Most athletes (range: 50% [parasports] to 75% [endurance]) performed cardiorespiratory training (trivial sex differences). Compared to prelockdown, perceived training intensity was reduced by 29% to 41%, depending on sport (largest decline: ?38% in team sports, unaffected by sex). Some athletes (range: 7%-49%) maintained their training intensity for strength, endurance, speed, plyometric, change-of-direction, and technical training. Athletes who previously trained ?5 sessions per week reduced their volume (range: 18%-28%) during lockdown. The proportion of athletes (81%) training ?60 min/session reduced by 31% to 43% during lockdown. Males and females had comparable moderate levels of training knowledge (56% vs 58%) and beliefs/attitudes (54% vs 56%). Conclusions: Changes in athletes' training practices were sport-specific, with few or no sex differences. Team-based sports were generally more susceptible to changes than individual sports. Policy makers should provide athletes with specific training arrangements and educational resources to facilitate remote and/or home-based training during lockdown-type events. 2022 Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.. All rights reserved.
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