Sergio José Ibáñez

Universidad de Extremadura | UNEX · Faculty of Sports Sciences

The objective of this research was to analyse the shot following the return in men's and women's professional padel according to the importance of the point and the service tactical position. The type of shot following the return, importance of the shot and tactical position of the serving pair were recorded by systematic observation. A total of 27...

Since the 2020 season the World Padel Tour (WPT) has incorporated the golden point rule, which consists of playing a point to decide the game when the score is deuce (40-40). The objective of this study was to analyze the characteristics of the golden points and the rest of the points in men's and women's professional padel, as well as to identify...

The menstrual cycle can be seen as a potential determinant of performance. This study aims to analyze the influence of the menstrual cycle in women on sports performance, more specifically on the internal and external load of professional women basketball players. The sample consisted of 16 women players and 14 training sessions were recorded. A de...

Player availability, defined as keeping players injury-free and ready to participate in competition, is extremely important in the current elite team sport scenarios, because it is related to team performance. In fact, individual player availability may be more important than each player being at their individual level of peak performance. However,...

Background. Training muscle capacities in hypoxic conditions increases some manifestations, such as hypertrophy and muscle strength, due to a change in the muscle phenotype as a result of the activation of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF). Despite the proven benefits of resistance training in hypoxic conditions that allow conjecture regarding the ef...

Introduction Physical activity plays an important role in all stages of development, especially in adolescence, as it is a period in which different lifestyles are shaped. Therefore, regular practice of physical activity contributes to an improvement in quality of life. This study analyzed university students’ motivational processes and intention t...

The evaluation of physical fitness in team sports is enjoying greater importance in the training of professional teams. The objectives of this research were to characterize physical fitness and game indicators based on the game position. This is an empirical study, with a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional methodology. In addition, diffe...

El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar las diferencias entre el sexo en jugadores profesionales, que compitieron en el World Padel Tour (WPT) durante cuatro temporadas (2016-2019). Se recopilaron los indicadores de rendimiento (puntos de break ganadores, errores, golpes ganadores, remates ganadores…) de 1070 sets (532 partidos), de los vide...

Introducción: el conocimiento de los entrenamientos es fundamental para optimizar la formación de los jugadores; por ello, una de las estrategias más empleadas por los entrenadores para optimizar el proceso de entrenamiento es modificar el número de jugadores (Situación de Juego). Objetivo: el objetivo del estudio fue analizar el proceso de enseñan...

El objetivo de esta investigación fue caracterizar las diferencias entre el sexo en jugadores profesionales, que compitieron en el World Padel Tour durante cuatro temporadas (2016-2019). Se recopilaron los indicadores de rendimiento de 1070 sets (532 partidos), de los videos de acceso abierto del canal de YouTube de WPT. Se analizaron las diferenci...

Due to the worldwide negative impact on sport of the COVID-19 pandemic declared by the WHO in 2020, the first aim of this study was to analyze the influence of COVID-19 on performance indicators as a natural experiment, according to the moment in time: pre-COVID, COVID and post-COVID. The second aim was to analyze and ascertain the persistence of t...

Coaches’ player substitution strategies can change the tactical behavior and the final result of matches. This empirical study aims to describe the relationship/association of player substitution variables with the results of men’s UEFA Champions League matches during the 2018–2019 season. A total of 125 matches were analyzed using an ad hoc observ...

Background: Previous studies indicate that running at maximum speed on short or curved sections is slower than running on straight sections. This study aimed to analyse the external load symmetry in track running kinematics concerning body location (left vs. right, caudal vs. cephalic), track segment (straight vs. curved) and distance (150 m vs. 30...

La carga interna es la respuesta fisiológica de cada jugador a los ejercicios de entrenamiento, que se puede monitorizar, entre otras, a través del esfuerzo percibido (RPE), la frecuencia cardíaca y las medidas hematológicas (Scott et al., 2013). El esfuerzo percibido es un método simple, no invasivo, versátil y rentable para el monitoreo que, adem...

The implications of relative age grouping in sport are known as the Relative Age Effect (RAE). This study has the twofold purpose of analyzing RAE in Spanish youth national soccer teams and examining the prediction value of being selected for national youth teams to be a professional. The sample was composed of 548 players divided into five groups....

El conocimiento objetivo de los indicadores de juego que ocurren durante la competición permite a los entrenadores realizar planes de entrenamiento ajustados a las necesidades competitivas. El propósito de este trabajo fue analizar la influencia de la localización, el efecto de marcar primero y la calidad del oponente parcial y final en el resultad...

Following previous calls regarding the importance of using sport as a platform for promoting youth psychosocial development and mental health, this case study aimed to understand the challenges faced by coaches and technical directors in the face of their individual efforts to infuse a positive youth development focus into a nationwide youth sports...

Constructivism is used as a powerful theoretical outlook to support teaching, learning, and curriculum in physical education and sport. The Constructivist Teaching Practices Inventory in Elementary Physical Education (CTPI-EPE) is a valid instrument for assessing in-service teachers. However, there is a need to translate constructivist teaching pra...

Background: Recovery between efforts is critical to achieving optimal physical and sports performance. In this sense, many nutritional supplements that have been proven to improve recovery and physical and physiological performance are widely used. Supplements such as nitrates (NO3-), including organic foods such as beets, promote muscle recovery...

El objetivo del presente trabajo consistió en analizar las relaciones existentes entre los parámetros de carga interna (objetiva y subjetiva) y externa. La muestra estuvo compuesta por un total de 15 partidos disputados en el Eurobasket femenino U-16, donde participaron un total de nueve árbitros (6 masculinos y 3 femeninos). Las variables analizad...

La implementación de estrategias efectivas de control de carga en el entrenamiento es primordial para mejorar el rendimiento. El objetivo fue caracterizar las demandas soportadas durante un microciclo competitivo de un equipo profesional de baloncesto femenino y su interacción con la competición. Diez jugadoras se equiparon con un dispositivo inerc...

Una de las principales necesidades de los entrenadores es conocer si sus procesos de entrenamiento reúnen los requisitos planificados. Para ello, los objetivos de esta investigación fueron evaluar cómo Variables Pedagógicas y de Carga Externa afectaban al entrenamiento y describir las diferencias según la metodología empleada. Esta investigación se...

Ensuring adequate levels of training and recovery to maximize player performance is critical; however, there are methodological challenges in designing a periodized training program for soccer teams. This study aims to describe and characterize the daily and weekly external load in an amateur soccer team and based on the weighting factors determine...

Today, it is important for physical education teachers to know students’ motivation profiles for learning. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze achievement motivation according to four variables: students’ sex, the taught sport modality, students’ experience and teaching methodology. Likewise, the effects of students’ sex and experience on the me...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la influencia del resultado parcial en el resultado final en baloncesto en función del sexo. La muestra estuvo compuesta por un total de 746 partidos de la temporada 2019-2020, 424 partidos de la Primera División Masculina (ACB) y 322 partidos de la Primera División Femenina (Liga Ende- sa). Para evalua...

The objective was to analyze the effectiveness in men’s and women’s professional padel of errors and winners depending on the type of shot and the importance of the situation during each game. In addition, differences between men and women were identified. The sample was made up of 2759 points corresponding to the games that finished with a golden...

There is research that has shown how individual characteristics and performance indicators influence the load in basketball; however, studies on the influence of situational variables on performance are lacking. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of certain situational and individual variables on the training load (weekly load, ga...

Background: Currently, tactics play an important and decisive role in sprint distance triathlons. One of the most decisive tactical elements is drafting in the cycling sector, depending on whether or not it is allowed by the test regulations. The objective was to analyze the physiological responses in running, in relation to drafting in the cyclin...

Os treinadores são amplamente reconhecidos como um dos agentes sociais mais importantes no panorama desportivo. Torna-se fundamental analisar a relação entre treinador- atleta, uma vez que esta é primordial para atletas com deficiência intelectual. O estudo tem como principal objetivo identificar a liderança dos treinadores, conhecer o grau de auto...

This research is already accepted and is waiting the current process of publication in the Revista Internacional de Medicina y Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte https://revistas.uam.es/index.php/revistaInternacionalMedicina. This paper are projected to be publish in No 90.

This study aimed to investigate how different strategies of task constraint manipulation impact physical and tactical demands in small-sided and conditioned games (SSCG). Ten recreational U-17 soccer players participated in this study (16.89 ± 0.11 years). We used different strategies of task manipulation to design two 4 vs. 4 SSCG: Structural SSCG...

The Basketball Learning and Performance Assessment Instrument (BALPAI) has been initially developed and evaluated to assess the performance of students or youth basketball players on the entry level. As it is currently the only observational instrument that allows an overall assessment of players’ in-game performance, it might represent a valuable...

The general objective of this study was to identify the variation in heart rate (HR) of Portuguese skydivers during 6 moments in their first jump of the day, bearing in mind the variable level of experience. Thirty-one Portuguese skydivers, 28 men and 3 women, aged between 19 and 62, participated in the study, 12 had A and B licenses (less experien...

Special Olympics Portugal is one of the main national organisations for the development of sport for athletes with intellectual disabilities. Coaches play a relevant role in the development of athletes, being the decision and planning styles essential aspects to adapt the training to the athletes' specific needs. These prerogatives are little explo...

The objective of this study was to identify the difference between the motivational and emotional variables and the training load in basketball taking into account gender and training category. 61 young people between 13 and 16 years of age (M = 14.23) from a basketball club in southern Spain participated. By technological devices, the internal and...

The load in tasks planned for sports teaching in physical education classes has received little attention. The purpose of this study was therefore to analyze the external load, eTL, in the tasks designed by physical education teachers from the in-service and pre-service stages, for teaching handball in primary education, and to compare them with th...

Assessment of the physical dimension implicit in the soccer match is crucial for the improvement and individualization of training load management. This study aims to: (a) describe the external match load at the amateur level, (b) analyze the differences between playing positions, (c) verify whether the home/away matches and if (d) the phase (first...

El objetivo de este estudio fue conocer el rasgo de búsqueda de sensaciones en practicantes de paracaidismo en Portugal y comprobar si existen diferencias según las variables, sexo, nivel de experiencia y grupo de edad. Participaron en el estudio 114 paracaidistas. Para la recolección de datos se utilizó el cuestionario Sensation Seeking Scale-V (S...

Physical education teachers need valid, low-cost, subjective techniques as an alternative to high-cost new technologies to monitor students’ intensity monitoring. This study aimed to investigate the correlations between both objective and subjective external (eTL) and internal (iTL) intensities. A total of 95 primary education students participated...

To carry out research that analyzes performance indicators through observational methodology, it is necessary to have validated tools. The purpose of this study was to design and validate a tool to ascertain the characteristics of the strokes that padel pairs use to reach the net and their consequences in the two subsequent shots of the game. Eleve...

This study aimed to identify internal and external workload demands in professional referees, and to analyse the influence of the situational variables Game Period and Game Action. Three professional referees of the highestcategory were monitored during a national elite game. WIMU PROTM inertial devices were used for workload monitoring via microte...

Taekwondo is a martial art and combat sport that originated in medieval or similar cultures , but today it is primarily a combat activity conditioned by safety rules. The kick technique is called "chagi" (Korean language). "Eyeballing" is a problem that is being addressed with traditional training methods used in Taekwondo. (1) Background: To solve...

The purpose of this study was to design and validate an observation instrument for the analysis of the performance parameters related to the smash in padel. Eleven experts, who had to meet four of the five inclusion criteria, participated in the process. Aiken's V coefficient and confidence intervals were used to calculate content validity and Cron...

Fernández-Cortés, J.; Escudero-Tena, A.; García-Rubio, J.; Ibáñez, S. J. (2020). La importancia de la localización del partido en la primera división española de fútbol. Journal of Sport and Health Research. 12(Supl 3):285-294.

Studies exploring performance indicators in basketball that characterize the result of the match are abundant. However, there are only a limited number of studies that carry out such analysis according to the specific position of the players. The objective of this work is to characterize the differences by specific position between performance indi...

In previous studies found in the literature speed (SP), acceleration (ACC), deceleration (DEC), and impact (IMP) zones have been created according to arbitrary thresholds without considering the specific workload profile of the players (e.g., sex, competitive level, sport discipline). The use of statistical methods based on raw data could be consid...

In spite of the negative effects of anger, coaches are often seen becoming angry during games. This is especially worrying in U18 categories. Thus, the objective of this study was to identify the influence that the coach’s anger has on the performance of a basketball team in competition. For this, an ad hoc observation tool was designed, in which 5...

Commonly, the monitoring of external workload has been performed using a single device on player's scapulae. The human body is a complex multi-articular system and quantification in a single location is insufficient, being necessary the assessment in multiple body locations simultaneously. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the multi-locat...

The organization of the students and the time taken to execute the learning tasks determine the physical (external load) and physiological (internal load) demands the students support during physical education classes. The aim of this study was to determine which organizational and pedagogical elements used to design different learning tasks for so...

Background: Scoring first seems to be a determinant in professional football playing; several factors could influence the development of the match and the outcome. This study aimed to identify which factors could influence scoring first and impact match outcomes in professional European female football. Methods: There were 504 official matches h...

The methodology used by the teacher in Physical Education sessions conditions the physical fitness of the students, since the design of the tasks determines the physical and physiological demands to which they are exposed. This study aimed to quantify and compare, according to the teaching methodology and students’ previous experience, the external...

The present study aims to analyse the leadership on soccer, according the stakeholders approach. The methodology was a systematic review on soccer leadership, published between 1995 and 2020. The Web of Science and Scopus databases were used, resulting in a sample of 80 articles. Several indicators were analysed in order to identify the authors who...

The objective of this investigation was to analyze scientific production assessed by indexed doctoral theses in the Ordered Spanish Theses (TESEO) database, on the topic of the sport of handball in Spain. Productivity was analyzed on the basis of variables grouped by contextual information, methodologies and procedures. Seventy-two indexed theses f...

Research on Football 5-a-side for blind people is usually informative and does not often consider sports performance analysis. This study aimed to verify the existing differences between the 2014 World Championship of Fa5 and the 2016 Paralympic Games, analyzing the action for an effective game, the throws to the goal. For this purpose, a total of...

Basketball is a sport in continuous evolution, being one of these key aspects of the players' physical fitness that has an impact on the game. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize and identify the physical fitness level and profiles of basketball players according to sex. Total of 26 semi-professional basketball players were assessed (13 mal...

In team sports, linear and non-linear displacements are combined during the game. In this sense, the importance of curvilinear trajectories and their impact on body joints have not been addressed yet. Therefore, the present research aims to: (a) describe the multi-location external workload profile during curvilinear displacements in isolated and i...

Background: During a soccer game, the most diversified stimuli occur all the time, the physical condition level plays a determinant role, and there may be variations according to the competitive level. In this sense, the present study aimed to verify differences in body composition, lower limbs power, and anaerobic power, comparing senior soccer p...

Actualmente, los estudios en torno a la organización de los procesos de entrenamiento mediante las tareas se han convertido en una de las líneas emergentes en las ciencias del deporte. Por ello, el objetivo del presente trabajo fue analizar el modo de actuación de un cuerpo técnico de un equipo de fútbol en edad escolar, sub-12, así como conocer la...

El estudio ha identificado las fuentes de conocimiento más valorizadas por los entrenadores y ayudantes de campo de las selecciones de balonmano masculino de Brasil en las categorías juvenil (U19), júnior (U21) y adulta. La investigación trata de un estudio de caso realizado con tres entrenadores y tres entrenadores asistentes de las selecciones ma...

Despite the growth of research on padel, available literature is mainly focused on male samples of modest size. This study characterised the differences in performance between men’s and women’s top-class padel players competing in the World Padel Tour (WPT) across four entire seasons (2016–19). Game performance indications from 1070 sets (532 match...

El ciclo de calidad de la intervención del entrenador implica conocer como es el proceso de planificación y su aplicación práctica, para posteriormente proceder a su análisis y evaluación. El principal objetivo de esta investigación fue caracterizar el proceso de entrenamiento que realiza un equipo amateur masculino de balonmano y la relación que e...

The application of technology is designed to improve something, and to optimize and facilitate human work. Currently, new technologies are an essential piece in most professional sports; from those aimed at improving the performance of the athlete, to those designed to verify the result of the competition objectively. Technology is so established i...