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This chapter presents a summary of a great variety of physical tests that can be implemented on both amateur and professional athletes from different sports. To give a practical reading of this chapter, all the physical test dimensions will be described in an order best suited to follow during a battery of tests. That is, the less metabolic demanding tests such as postural and mobility tests are the first ones, and the more fatiguing tests are being left to the end.
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Clemente, F.M. et al. (2022). Characteristics of the Included Tests. In: Field-based Tests for Soccer Players. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03895-2_3
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