## 4 Discussion
It should be highlighted as well that the lowest values in all the variables are obtained in the PREOM session, confirming the existence of tapering in the training load in the days prior to competition in order to favor the recovery of the players and, consequently, to guarantee greater freshness and willingness to compete [10; 16; 17; 19]. The results of this study concur with these previous contributions in men's football, where the weekly periodization was described, accumulating the highest loads in the middle of the week, that is, 2 or 3 days before the match (OM \(-\) 2 or OM \(-\) 3), coinciding with the EXT day, and lower loads at the end of the week, the 2 days before the competition. On the other hand, unlike previous studies [10; 18], the location of the VEL session within the weekly distribution was novel. This was probably motivated by the distribution of the training sessions that the team arranged, trying to distance the VEL session from the EXT session, thereby stimulating the distance covered at high-speed ranges (e.g., HSR and Sprint) and that of the following match. The reason could lie in the need to emphasize this conditional capacity given its low stimulation both in the competition itself (e.g., players accumulated little distance in high-speed ranges) and throughout the competitive micro-cycle. The VEL session was located on the second day after the match played in the previous micro-cycle (OM + 2), that is, 5 or 6 days prior to the following match (OM \(-\) 5 or OM \(-\) 6). Significantly more HSR and Sprint were accumulated in these sessions, with a volume load (TD) similar to the EXT session. Regarding the INT session, which was usually carried out on the central days of the week (OM \(-\) 5 or OM \(-\) 4) and prior to the EXT session, a predominance of the force variables (accelerations and decelerations) was described compared to the other sessions, as described in men's football in previous works [10; 29]. However, although [PERSON] et al. (2017) described that medium (1.5-3 m/s\({}^{2}\) and \(-\)1.5-3 m/s\({}^{2}\)) and high (\(>\)3 m/s\({}^{2}\) and \(<\)\(-\)3 m/s\({}^{2}\)) accelerations and decelerations during training were similar to the competition values in this type of session, in this research work, the competition values were significantly higher than the rest of the types of training sessions. With regard to the EXT session, which was usually carried out in the middle of the week (OM \(-\) 4 or OM \(-\) 3), high values were described in TD and PL compared to the other sessions, showing a similar trend as in previous studies [18; 30]. In elite male football, these studies described greater distances covered in OM \(-\) 3 sessions compared to OM \(-\) 4 sessions, which could be related to the EXT and INT sessions described in this study. Despite the global coincidence of this approach, not all the works [17; 31; 32; 33] concurred in the same weekly profile of the loads. While some showed a downward progression or from more to less [31], others described two peaks, Monday and Thursday [33], with a remarkable peak in the main session of the week [32] or with high values in the middle of the week without showing great differences between sessions [17]. Likewise, the present work shows three load sessions (VEL, INT, AND EXT), of which two obtain higher values (VEL and EXT), located at the beginning and middle of the week, as represented in the study by [33]. This study describes a variant of tactical periodization, which, while respecting horizontal alternation, proposes a novel distribution in the orientation of content throughout the competitive micro-cycle. The possible practical application of this study is that the content of the training sessions with different conditional orientations could present a different ordering than the one proposed by the tactical periodization.