• The road to gold: Training and peaking characteristics in the year prior to a gold medal endurance performance 

      Tønnessen, Espen; Sylta, Øystein; Haugen, Thomas A.; Hem, Erlend; Svendsen, Ida S.; Seiler, Stephen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Purpose: To describe training variations across the annual cycle in Olympic and World Champion endurance athletes, and determine whether these athletes used tapering strategies in line with recommendations in the literature. ...
    • The role and development of sprinting speed in soccer 

      Haugen, Thomas A.; Tønnessen, Espen; Hisdal, Jonny; Seiler, Stephen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      The overall objective of this review was to investigate the role and development of sprinting speed in soccer. Time–motion analyses show that short sprints occur frequently during soccer games. Straight sprinting is the ...
    • Vo2max characteristics of elite female soccer players, 1989-2007 

      Haugen, Thomas A.; Tønnessen, Espen; Hem, Erlend; Leirstein, Svein; Seiler, Stephen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Purpose: To quantify VO2max among female competitive soccer players as a function of performance level, field position, and age. In addition, the evolution of VO2max among world-class players over an 18-y period was ...