Teacher
Júlio Aalejandro Henriques Da Costa

Resume

Júlio A. Costa is a Sports Scientist and Researcher affiliated with the Portugal Football School, the education and research unit of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). He is member of the health and performance unit and Portugal Football School of the FPF and acts as the sports scientist of the Portuguese U-17 National (male) soccer team. Within in the FPF since 2020, Júlio has participated in the under-17 European Championship Cyprus 2024 (reached at FINAL), under-19 European Championship Slovakia 2022 and the under-17 European Championship Israel 2022 (reached at semi-finals). Júlio has a Post-Doc and PhD in Sport Sciences from the Portugal Football School (Portuguese Football Federation) and the University of Porto, respectively, and his research interests are focused on exercise physiology, injury prevention, strength and conditioning, and monitoring of training and match loads. Authored and co-authored scientific papers published in national and international peer-reviewed journals and guest lecturer at Universities in Portugal.

Graus

• Mestrado
  Masters on High Performance Sport Training
• Licenciatura
  Licenciatura em Ciências do Desporto
• Doutoramento
  Doctor of Philosophy - Sport Sciences
• Pós-doutoramento
  Postdoctoral researcher-Sports Sciences

Publicações

Artigo em revista (magazine)

• 2020-04-30, A influência das cargas de treino e jogo nos índices de sono em atletas da Seleção Nacional de futebol feminino durante um torneio internacional, Centro de pesquisa e desenvolvimento desportivo. Comité Olímpico de Portugal (COP)
• 2019-04-30, Aplicabilidade e segurança de um programa de walking football para indivíduos com diabetes tipo 2., Centro de pesquisa e desenvolvimento desportivo. Comité Olímpico de Portugal (COP)
• 2019, É Tempo de Acordar: Monitorização do Sono em Atletas Femininas.
• 2018-04-30, Padrões do sono e atividade autonómica cardíaca noturna após treinos e jogos realizados a diferentes horas do dia em futebolistas femininas, Centro de pesquisa e desenvolvimento desportivo. Comité Olímpico de Portugal (COP)

Pré-impressão

Artigo em revista

• 2025-02-14, The Impact of a School-Based Physical Activity Program on Children's movement behaviors, aerobic fitness and motor competence: A Follow up Study, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, section Physical Education and Pedagogy
• 2025-01-12, Acute and chronic effects of elastic band resistance training on athletes’ physical performance: a systematic review, Sport Sciences for Health
• 2024-12-16, The Influence of Including Goalkeepers on the Intensity Demands of Walking Football Practice, Sports
• 2024-12-06, Improving motor competence of children. The “Super Quinas” intervention program in Portuguese primary schools, Journal of Physical Activity and Health
• 2024-09-01, 104 Impact of a School-Based Physical Activity Intervention program on Physical Activity Levels, Sleep Patterns, Aerobic Fitness, and Motor Competence, European Journal of Public Health
• 2024-04-30, Impact of temperature on physical and cognitive performance in elite female football players during intermittent exercise, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports
• 2024-02-05, A School-Based Physical Activity Intervention in Primary School: Effects on Physical Activity, Sleep, Aerobic Fitness and Motor Competence, Frontiers Public Health
• 2023-10-17, Effects of "Football and Nutrition for Health" on body composition, physical fitness, eating behaviours, nutritional knowledge, and psychological status among 7 to 10 years schoolchildren., Frontiers Pediatrics
• 2023-09-03, Exploring Gut Microbiota and the Influence of Physical Activity Interventions on Overweight and Obese Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review, Healthcare
• 2023-08-22, The effect of an intermittent protocol on strength performance in female football players: an exploratory study, Journal Motricidade
• 2023-07-10, Effects of dietary supplements on athletic performance in elite soccer players: a systematic review, Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition
• 2023-07-06, The Impact of Sleep Interventions on Athletic Performance: A Systematic Review, Sports Medicine - Open
• 2023-07, Effects of Physical Activity and Nutrition Education on the Gut Microbiota in Overweight and Obese Children, Children
• 2023-06-09, Reliability of Maximal Strength and Peak Rate of Force Development in a Portable Nordic Hamstrings Exercise Device, Sensors
• 2023-05-26, Simulated Soccer Game Protocols: A Systematic Review on validated protocols that represent the demands of the game, The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
• 2022-12-23, Sleep Duration is Associated with Overnight Changes in Perceived Fatigue in Elite Women Soccer Players, Science and Medicine in Football
• 2022-11-28, Intraindividual Relationships Between Training Loads and Heart Rate Variability in High-Level Female Futsal Players: A Longitudinal Study, International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance,
• 2022-11-08, Evidence to Practice: Bridging the Gap in Environmental Challenges (Cold, Heat, Hypoxia) in Sport and Exercise: Acclimatization/Acclimation, Training, Competitions, Recovery, Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Interventions, Frontiers in Active Living
• 2022-07-14, Training in women soccer players: a systematic review on training load monitoring, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2022-05-20, Associations between Training Load and Well-Being in Elite Beach Soccer Players: A Case Report, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• 2022-04-29, Associations Between Esports Participation and Health: A Scoping Review, Sports Medicine
• 2022-04-05, Comparing Sleep in Shared and Individual Rooms during a Training Camp in Elite Youth Soccer Player's: A Short Report, Journal of Athletic Training
• 2022-01-27, Validation of FUT-SAT in the tactical performance of football players for low complexity formats in reduced and conditioned games. , Brazilian Journal of Development
• 2021-12-15, Associations between 24-hour heart rate variability and aerobic fitness in high-level female soccer players, Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports
• 2021-08-23, Cardiac autonomic function and sleep patterns after training sessions and matches in female soccer players. , British Journal of Sports Medicine
• 2021-06-26, Relationships between Sleep, Athletic and Match Performance, Training Load, and Injuries: A Systematic Review of Soccer Players., Healthcare
• 2021-04, Monitoring individual sleep and nocturnal heart rate variability indices: the impact of training and match schedule and load in high-level female soccer players., Frontiers in Physiology
• 2021-02, Sleep Indices and Cardiac Autonomic Activity Responses during an International Tournament in a Youth National Soccer Team, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• 2020-07-06, Feasibility and safety of a walking football program in middle-aged and older men with type 2 diabetes, Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
• 2019-11-22, Methods to collect and interpret external training load using microtechnology incorporating GPS in professional football: a systematic review, Research in Sports Medicine
• 2019-10-24, Internal training load monitoring in professional football: a systematic review of methods using rating of perceived exertion., The Journal of sports medicine and physical fitness
• 2019-09-17, Intra-individual variability of sleep and nocturnal cardiac autonomic activity in elite female soccer players during an international tournament., PloS one
• 2019-09-10, USING THE RATING OF PERCEIVED EXERTION AND HEART RATE TO QUANTIFY TRAINING INTENSITY IN FEMALE SOCCER PLAYERS: VALIDITY AND UTILITY, The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
• 2018-11-13, Does night-training load affect sleep patterns and nocturnal cardiac autonomic activity in high-level female soccer players?, International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance
• 2018-11-05, Sleep patterns and nocturnal cardiac autonomic activity in female athletes are affected by the timing of exercise and match location, Chronobiology International
• 2018-09-04, Heart rate variability changes from traditional versus ultra-short-term recordings in relation to preseason training load and performance in futsal players, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
• 2018-01-11, Effects of late-night training on “slow-wave sleep episode” and hour-by-hour derived nocturnal cardiac autonomic activity in female soccer players, International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance
• 2016, Variation of oxidative stress of elite football players during pre-season and inseason, Journal of Physical Education and Sport

Tese / Dissertação

• 2015-10-19, Analysis of performance and plasma stress markers of elite female football players during an official FIFA tournament

Capítulo de livro

• 2025, A case study comparing sleep in shared and individual rooms during a training camp in elite youth soccer players., A case study comparing sleep in shared and individual rooms during a training camp in elite youth soccer players.
• 2024, Programa de intervenção nas escolas do 1º ciclo: A Hora dos Super Quinas. , Desafios da Escola e da Educação Física – Tradição e Inovação , Universidade da Madeira
• 2024, Fatigue in Soccer: Acute and Residual Responses, Guide to Monitoring Performance
• 2023, Importância do sono para o rendimento desportivo, Treinar para Render, Primebooks
• 2022, The importance of sleep in athletes
• 2022, Assessment of Autonomic Cardiac Activity in Athletes
• 2021, 12 Physiological Variables Training Impulse and Heart Rate Variability, The Use of Applied Technology in Team Sport

Relatório

• 2023-11-28, Acute and Chronic Effects of Elastic Band Resistance Training on Physical Performance: A Systematic Review, https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2023.11.0109
• 2023-07-12, Gut microbiota and physical activity impact in overweight and obese children and adolescents: a systematic review, https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2023.7.0045
• 2022-06-22, Effect of dietary supplements on athletic performance in elite soccer players: a systematic review, https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2022.6.0088
• 2022-05-11, The Impact of Sleep Interventions on Athletes Performance: A Systematic Review, https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2022.5.0069
• 2021-12-07, External and internal load during training sessions in elite women’s soccer: a systematic mini review, https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2021.12.0038
• 2021-02-27, Simulated Soccer Games Protocols: What we Know so far—A Systematic Review, https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2021.2.0080

Artigo em conferência

• 2025-01-16, Improving motor competence of children. The “Super Quinas” intervention program in Portuguese primary schools. , Football is Medicine Conference 2025, Jyväskylä, Finland
• 2025-01-16, Effect of Goalkeeper on Walking Football Game: Influence on Physiological, Physical, Technical and Perceptual responses in Older Men. , Football is Medicine Conference 2025, Jyväskylä, Finland.
• 2024-03, 695 EP078 – Sleep in shared compared to individual rooms during training camps in elite youth soccer players

Resumo em conferência

• 2024-09-24, Circadian phenotypes affect sleep of female soccer athletes with consequences to perceived wellbeing for those with circadian misalignment , 27th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), Sevilha, Spain.
• 2024-07-02, Match demands of elite beach soccer national teams. Does sex matter? , 29th Annual Congress of the European College of Sports Science (ECSS), Glasgow, Scotland.
• 2024-07-02, Impact of a School-Based Physical Activity Intervention program on Physical Activity Levels, Sleep Patterns, Aerobic Fitness, and Motor Competence, 29th Annual Congress of the European College of Sports Science (ECSS), Glasgow, Scotland.
• 2024-07-02, Combined effects of pre-cooling and in-play cooling breaks using ice towels and cold drinks during football matches in warm conditions. , 29th Annual Congress of the European College of Sports Science (ECSS), Glasgow, Scotland.
• 2024-06-20, Light Influences Hormonal Production Differently According to Chronotype: A Naturalistic Study of Elite Female Football Athletes., SLTBR 2024- 35th Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2024-05-05, The influence of player position on physical demands of beach soccer. , Applied Science in Football: International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2024-05-05, The influence of na intermitente protocolo n strenght performance in female football players: a case study. , Applied Science in Football: International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2024-05-05, Monitoring External Load Metrics in U20 National Team Soccer players. , Applied Science in Football: International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2023-12, Analyzing Scoring Opportunities and Efficiency: A Comparative Study Between the Portuguese Liga BPI and Five of the Most Competitive Female Football Leagues, International Congress of Cidesd 2023
• 2023-07-07, How much sleep does a football player need?
• 2023-06-18, Sleep during a training camp in elite adult female soccer players, EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF SPORT SCIENCE 4 - 7 July 2023, Paris, France
• 2023-06-08, A School-Based Physical Activity Intervention among Primary School Children: Effects on Physical Activity, Sleep, Aerobic Fitness and Motor Competence, FOOTBALL IS MEDICINE CONFERENCE 2023, at Atlanta, USA
• 2023-05-24, Physical, physiological and thermoregulatory responses in soccer players under heat stress, World Congress on Science and Football 2023 at Groningen
• 2022-06-15, A case study comparing sleep in shared and individual rooms during a training camp in elite youth soccer players, World Conference on Science and Soccer 2022
• 2019-07-01, Intra-individual variability in sleep and nocturnal heart rate variability of elite female soccer players during an international tournament
• 2019-02-02, Individual sleep and nocturnal heart rate variability profiles in elite female soccer players during an international tournament

Poster em conferência

• 2024-03-02, Sleep in shared compared to individual rooms during training camps in elite youth soccer players
• 2023-04-14, Effects of ambient temperature on physical, physiological and cognitive demands in Football: Where do we stand? A systematic review.
• 2020-09-23, Individual nocturnal cardiac autonomic activity and sleep patterns in elite female soccer players during an international tournament
• 2020-03-06, Cardiac vagal outflow saturation and aerobic fitness changes in high-level female soccer players during the preseason

Outra produção

• 2020-12-15, Ph.D. Thesis JúlioCosta 2020