ABSTRACT
During competition in intermittent sports the athlete is required to perform numerous bouts of high-speed running activity. Therefore, the athlete’s capacity to recover sufficiently to perform such successive bouts of high-intensity activity is therefore a critical factor in these sports (Spencer et al., 2005). Ultimately, the ability to perform maximally for one sprint or bout of high-intensity agility movement is of limited value if the athlete is not capable of doing so again when the match situation next demands it.
