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Lower body strength and body composition in female football
| dc.contributor.author | França, Cíntia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saldanha, Carolina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Martins, Francisco | |
| dc.contributor.author | de Maio Nascimento, Marcelo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marques, Adilson | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ihle, Andreas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sarmento, Hugo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Campos, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gouveia, Elvio | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-03T10:46:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-03T10:46:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description | © The Author(s) 2025. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.abstract | Lower-body strength plays a crucial role in football performance and injury prevention, and thus, monitoring of strength variables has become crucial in the training process. This study aims to (1) assess knee muscle strength performance through intra- and inter-limb asymmetries and (2) examine the relationships between knee muscle strength, body composition, and vertical jump performance (squat jump and countermovement jump). Twenty-seven semiprofessional female football players (21.5 ± 4.9 years) were evaluated for body composition, isokinetic knee muscle strength (60º/s and 180º/s), and vertical jump tasks. Peak torque (PT), peak torque/body weight (PT/BW), bilateral strength deficit, and the hamstring-to-quadriceps strength ratio (H/Q) for knee extensors (KE) and flexors (KF) in both the preferred and non-preferred legs. The H/Q ratio and the bilateral strength deficit revealed no significant intra- or inter-limb asymmetries in knee muscle strength. Strong correlations were found between vertical jump performance and KE strength at both 60º/s (p ≤ 0.01) and 180º/s (p ≤ 0.01). Additionally, a significant negative correlation was observed between vertical jump performance and body fat percentage (p ≤ 0.01). These findings highlight the critical role of knee muscle strength in explosive tasks and underline the negative impact of higher body fat on lower-body strength performance. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This study was funded by the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Program (PRR), IAPMEI/ANI/FCT, under the Agenda C645022399-00000057 (eGamesLab). | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 17;15(1):9200 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-025-94041-x | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2045-2322 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/99971 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Springer Nature | pt_PT |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.nature.com/srep/ | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Soccer | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Explosive strength | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Isokinetic strength | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Peak torque | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Intra-limb asymmetry | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Inter-limb asymmetry | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Lower body strength and body composition in female football | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Scientific Reports | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 15 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Pestana Martins | |
| person.familyName | Marques | |
| person.familyName | Gouveia | |
| person.givenName | João Francisco | |
| person.givenName | Adilson | |
| person.givenName | Elvio | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 361B-84C0-EEDA | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 5F18-F9C3-11CB | |
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| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-4838-4931 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-9850-7771 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-0927-692X | |
| person.identifier.rid | K-4529-2014 | |
| person.identifier.rid | F-9156-2015 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 55082567000 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 36637395800 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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