Investigators from University of Texas San Antonio Have Reported New Data on Sports Medicine (Relationship Between Workload, Psychological State and Recovery In Female Soccer Athletes).

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Texas San Antonio examined the relationship between workload, psychological state, and recovery in female collegiate soccer athletes. The study utilized a prospective longitudinal design and measured various factors such as GPS training load, mental stress, sleep duration, and soreness. The findings showed that workload and mental stress had a significant impact on the athletes' perceived exertion, while the interaction between day in the season and mental stress, sleep duration, and soreness became stronger over time. The study concluded that accounting for individual variations in the random effects improved the predictive power of the models. [Extracted from the article]