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Applications are invited for a Masters by Research position funded by the SETU PhD/Research Co-Fund, Sport Ireland and Fingal Sports Partnership.
Project is a collaboration between the Department of Sport and Exercise Science in SETU Waterford and the Football Cooperative developed with the aim of evaluating the physical demands of “Pick up” football matches in men over 30 years old. This will be achieved by using GPS monitoring devices and heart rate monitoring units.
The project will have Ethical approval in place for the student prior to beginning their project.
Project Background
Physical activity (PA) levels in men reduces with age; with approximately 70% of the men in Ireland not getting the recommended levels of weekly PA. Football Cooperative (FC) provides social ‘pick up football’ games for men who are not part of a club but wish to still participate in recreational soccer. An ongoing study assessing the feasibility of FC games for scale up reported that, despite their age, 70.3% of participants are overweight or obese and 75% of men have 3 or more Cardiovascular (CV) risk factors. Given that FC is their preferred mode of PA, it is important that the activity they achieve is sufficient to address their health risk.
Global-Positioning Systems and heart rate monitors have been used by professional teams to measure distance covered, speed of movement and cardiovascular demands of matches. In the proposed study, these systems will be used to measure the demands of recreational football among a cohort of participants and compare them to the demands with running. Examining these metrics will allow us to understand whether the PA undertaken during FC games is a sufficient to reduce health risk among this cohort.
Project Aims
The aim of this project is to examine the PA and CV demands of FC games in recreational footballers and to establish physiological profiles of those who regularly attend vs. those that do not.
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