Nutritional Intake and Training Load of Professional Female Football Players during a Mid-Season Microcycle
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Material and Methods
2.1. Subjects
2.2. Study Design
2.3. Microcycle Contextualization
2.4. Anthropometric Measures
2.5. Nutritional Intake
2.6. Training and Match Load
2.7. Internal Training and Match Load
2.8. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Leão, C.; Mendes, A.P.; Custódio, C.; Ng, M.; Ribeiro, N.; Loureiro, N.; Araújo, J.P.; Afonso, J.; Rocha-Rodrigues, S.; Tavares, F. Nutritional Intake and Training Load of Professional Female Football Players during a Mid-Season Microcycle. Nutrients 2022, 14, 2149. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14102149
Leão C, Mendes AP, Custódio C, Ng M, Ribeiro N, Loureiro N, Araújo JP, Afonso J, Rocha-Rodrigues S, Tavares F. Nutritional Intake and Training Load of Professional Female Football Players during a Mid-Season Microcycle. Nutrients. 2022; 14(10):2149. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14102149
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeão, César, António Pedro Mendes, Catarina Custódio, Mafalda Ng, Nuno Ribeiro, Nuno Loureiro, João Pedro Araújo, José Afonso, Sílvia Rocha-Rodrigues, and Francisco Tavares. 2022. "Nutritional Intake and Training Load of Professional Female Football Players during a Mid-Season Microcycle" Nutrients 14, no. 10: 2149. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14102149