Performance enhancements and muscular adaptations of a 16-week recreational football intervention for untrained women

The present study investigated the performance effects and physiological adaptations over 16 weeks of recreational football training and continuous running for healthy untrained premenopausal women in comparison with an inactive control group [Football group (FG): n =21; running group (RG): n =18; CO: n =14]. Two weekly 1‐h training sessions were performed in FG and RG. After 4 and 16 weeks of training VO 2max was elevated ( P <0.05) by 7%...