The aim of the study was to assess the selected indices of aerobic and anaerobic physical capacity and of motor fitness of football players throughout an annual training cycle. A group of 18 football cadets, pupils of Sport Mastery School run by the Polish Football Association in Gdansk. Eight subjects from that group were members of the National representation team. They trained 7 - 9 times a week, and on Wednesdays or weekends played championship matches. The were subjected to motor fitness tests (60 m dash, 300 m run and 12 min Cooper`s test) and to physical capacity tests (graded exercise until exhaustion and 30 s Wingate test). Conventional statistical procedures were employed (Pearson`s correlation coefficients, Student`s t-test for dependent data). The results are indicative of a steady improvement of motor and capacity indices.
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