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    COVID-19 Lockdown: A Global Study Investigating the Effect of Athletes' Sport Classification and Sex on Training Practices

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    2022
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    Washif, Jad Adrian
    Sandbakk, 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.
    DOI/handle
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2021-0543
    http://hdl.handle.net/10576/48744
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