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Abstract

Introduction: Training athletes according to the typological features of display properties of the nervous system has a positive effect but in football there are no studies on this aspect.

Objective: To investigate the influence of typology on the training of young football players on the ability to adapt and rebuild their movement during the game.

Method: Thirty two football players, 11-12 years old, participated in study. Sixteen football players were used as the experimental group (EG) to improve the ability to adapt and rebuild the movements. The other 16 players made up the control group (CG). In the EG players with a strong nervous system (8 persons), intensity of the training load was increased but the volume was decreased. For players with a weak nervous system (8 persons) the volume was increased but not the intensity.

Results: After 8 months of the experiment, there was a significant increase in the ability to adapt and rebuild in football players in the EG. In football players with a strong nervous system, indicators improved from 12.1±0.3 seconds to 10.0±0.2 seconds (p<0.05), and in football players with a weak nervous system from 12.1±0.8 seconds to 9.9±0.4 seconds (p<0.05). In the control group too, improvement occurred but the changes were not statistically significant (p>0.05).

Conclusion: The study showed the effectiveness of the use of the typological properties of the nervous system as a method of determining the type of training required to improve the ability to adapt and rebuild the movement of young football players

Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 2018; 47: 223-227

Keywords: Typology, football players, nervous system, differentiated approach