Field Hockey Physiology

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Field Hockey Physiology

• By Margaret Winter

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• 80 of field hockey is aerobic 20 is anaerobic
  (2)
• Stick skills and semi-crouched running with stick
  increases energy expenditure (4)

• Anaerobic systems needed for changes in motion
  that occur every 5.5 sec (6)

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Field hockey is an intermittent sport

• Often changing between aerobic and anaerobic
  movements
• Shuttle tests are good for field hockey because
  they simulate game like movement (2)
• Lactate in blood after tests
• VO2 max increases with training (1)

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Summary

• FH mostly aerobic (frequently running/walking)
• ATP-PC for stick work and changing direction
• Glycolytic for longer sprints and repeated sprints

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• Works Cited
• (1) Boddington, M.K, Lambert, M.I,, Waldeck, M.R.
  (2004). Validity of a 5-meter multiple shuttle
  run test for assessing fitness of women field
  hockey players. Journal of Strength and
  Conditioning Research, 18(1), 97-100.
• (2) Koen, Lemmink, Visscher. (2006). Role of
  energy systems in two intermittent field tests
  in women field hockey players. Journal of
  Strength and Conditioning Research, 20(3),
  682-688.
• (3) Martens, Rainer. (2004). Successful Coaching.
  Champaign, IL Human Kinetics.
• (4) Reilly, Borrie. (1992). Physiology applied to
  field hockey. Journal of Sports Medicine, 14(1),
  10-26.
• (5) Spencer, Rechichi, Lawrence, Dawson, Bishop,
  Goodman. (2004). Time-motion analysis of elite
  field hockey, with special reference to
  repeated-sprint activity. Journal of Sports
  Sciences, 22, 843-850.
• (6) Spencer, Rechichi, Lawrence, Dawson, Bishop,
  Goodman. (2005). Time-motion analysis of elite
  field hockey during several games in succession
  a tournament scenario. Journal of Science
  Medicine and Sport, 4(8), 382-391.