Subjective perception of training load in professional volleyball players

Abstract

The aim of the research was to monitor and investigate the subjective perception of training load in individual weekly microcycles in a group of professional volleyball players. The research sample consisted of 13 professional volleyball players of TJ Spartak Myjava aged from 18 to 27 years. The level of load was assessed by the professional volleyball players using a modified Borg RPE scale after each morning and evening training session. We assumed an increasing tendency of acute training load over the 4 weeks. We found that the second week was the week with the lowest measured values (800.85±218.47Au) and the third week, the week with the highest measured values (1171.38±252.00Au) in terms of acute training load in the group of professional volleyball players. There were significant differences in the increase in acute training load between weeks, with the highest significant increase in acute load occurring in the third training microcycle. We reject the research hypothesis because the measured value of acute training load was higher in the first week than in the second week, the value increased in the third week, and decreased again in the fourth week.