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Effects of Complex Training Versus Ballistic Training on Physical Fitness Abilities of Athletes and Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis
Effects of Complex Training Versus Ballistic Training on Physical Fitness Abilities of Athletes and Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis
The literature is equivocal on whether complex training (i.e., combining traditional resistance and ballistic exercises wi...
Maximizing Adaptations in Concurrent Training: An Umbrella Review of Meta-analyses
Maximizing Adaptations in Concurrent Training: An Umbrella Review of Meta-analyses
Concurrent training (CT), the combination of resistance training (RT) and endurance training (ET), is widely used in athle...
AI-Driven Analysis of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Tests to Identify Gas Exchange and Ventilatory Thresholds
AI-Driven Analysis of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Tests to Identify Gas Exchange and Ventilatory Thresholds
A cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) provides the estimated lactate threshold (θLT) and respiratory compensation po...
Menstrual Cycle-Related Symptoms and Disorders and Their Impact on Physical, Psychosocial, and Environmental Determinants of Exercise Performance: A Scoping Review
Menstrual Cycle-Related Symptoms and Disorders and Their Impact on Physical, Psychosocial, and Environmental Determinants of Exercise Performance: A Scoping Review
Menstrual cycle (MC)-related symptoms and disorders are common in female athletes, but their effects on exercise performan...
The Rules of the Game: Towards a Theory of Practice for Performance Nutritionists in Professional Soccer Using Bourdieu’s Concepts of Habitus, Capital and Field
The Rules of the Game: Towards a Theory of Practice for Performance Nutritionists in Professional Soccer Using Bourdieu’s Concepts of Habitus, Capital and Field
Performance nutrition is now an established discipline in professional soccer; however, limited knowledge exists on how pr...
Do All Paths Lead to Mental Fatigue or Is It Merely a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Do All Paths Lead to Mental Fatigue or Is It Merely a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Fatigue, long recognized as a limiting factor in physical performance, has traditionally been conceptualized as comprising...
Redefining the Paradigm: Advancing Evidence-Based Return-to-Sport Criteria Following Isolated Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Scoping Review
Redefining the Paradigm: Advancing Evidence-Based Return-to-Sport Criteria Following Isolated Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Scoping Review
Acute posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injuries occur during high-impact sports including American Football, soccer, and ...
Evaluating the Use of In-Game Rule Changes as a Primary Prevention Approach to Reduce Injury Risk in Invasion Team Sports: A Scoping Review
Evaluating the Use of In-Game Rule Changes as a Primary Prevention Approach to Reduce Injury Risk in Invasion Team Sports: A Scoping Review
The rate of injury in invasion team sports is often greater than in non-invasion sports. A preventative measure to reduce ...
Monitoring Training Effects in Athletes: A Multidimensional Framework for Decision-Making
Monitoring Training Effects in Athletes: A Multidimensional Framework for Decision-Making
Athlete monitoring is widely used to support training and recovery decisions in elite sport, yet practitioners often face ...
The Impact of Exercise on Intervertebral Disc Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
The Impact of Exercise on Intervertebral Disc Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
The structure and function of human tissue, such as bone, muscle and tendon, can be improved with targeted exercise traini...
Fueling Women’s Football: Evidence-Informed Practical Nutrition Strategies for Performance and Health
Fueling Women’s Football: Evidence-Informed Practical Nutrition Strategies for Performance and Health
This paper synthesizes current research on women’s football to develop comprehensive, evidence-informed nutritional ...
Return-to-Play Criteria Following Lower Limb Muscle Injuries in Soccer: A Systematic Review with Evidence Synthesis
Return-to-Play Criteria Following Lower Limb Muscle Injuries in Soccer: A Systematic Review with Evidence Synthesis
The objective was to systematically identify and categorize return-to-play (RTP) domains and criteria used following muscl...
Stiffness and Running Performance: From the Tissue to the Body: A Narrative Review
Stiffness and Running Performance: From the Tissue to the Body: A Narrative Review
Running is a unique mode of locomotion, a gait with clear ground contact and aerial phases, during which the body experien...
An Overarching Conceptual Framework for Menstrual Health in Sport Research: Theory, Causality and Validation
An Overarching Conceptual Framework for Menstrual Health in Sport Research: Theory, Causality and Validation
Menstrual health in sport is a complex domain shaped by biological, psychological and contextual factors. Central to these...
One Step Further: Integrating Evidence-Based Guidelines into Practice to Address Environmental Challenges at the Men’s 2026 FIFA World Cup
One Step Further: Integrating Evidence-Based Guidelines into Practice to Address Environmental Challenges at the Men’s 2026 FIFA World Cup
The Men’s 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup (Canada, Mexico and the ...
The 2026 Men’s FIFA Football World Cup: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Protect Player Health and Performance from Environmental Challenges
The 2026 Men’s FIFA Football World Cup: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Protect Player Health and Performance from Environmental Challenges
The Men’s 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Football World Cup (FWC) will take...
One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: Disentangling the Concepts of Range of Motion Versus Flexibility, and Flexibility Training Versus Stretching
One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: Disentangling the Concepts of Range of Motion Versus Flexibility, and Flexibility Training Versus Stretching
In this Current Opinion, we revisit key terminological distinctions in sports sciences, emphasizing the implications of co...
Which Exercise Prescriptions Improve Physical Fitness in Patients with Breast Cancer Before, During, and Following Treatment? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Which Exercise Prescriptions Improve Physical Fitness in Patients with Breast Cancer Before, During, and Following Treatment? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Exercise is now recognized as an essential component of the cancer care continuum. However, the optimal exercise prescript...
International Professional Practice Standards for Clinical Exercise Physiology: Consensus Statement
International Professional Practice Standards for Clinical Exercise Physiology: Consensus Statement
Professional standards are used to inform and measure educational programs and individual credentialling of many professio...
Exercise Classification in Resistance Training: A Systematic Review of Technological Approaches
Exercise Classification in Resistance Training: A Systematic Review of Technological Approaches
Modern sensor technology allows for objective tracking of resistance training exercises, yet the accuracy with which these...
Bridging Inductive and Deductive Reasoning: A Proposal to Enhance the Evaluation and Development of Models in Sports and Exercise Science
Bridging Inductive and Deductive Reasoning: A Proposal to Enhance the Evaluation and Development of Models in Sports and Exercise Science
Scientific reasoning in sports and exercise science utilizes inductive and deductive approaches. Models play a major role ...
Head Acceleration Event Exposure During Elite Men’s and Women’s Rugby Union Training
Head Acceleration Event Exposure During Elite Men’s and Women’s Rugby Union Training
The aim of this study was to describe the incidence and magnitude of head acceleration events (HAEs) during elite men̵...
Are Altered Knee Joint Biomechanics Associated with Future Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis Outcomes? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies
Are Altered Knee Joint Biomechanics Associated with Future Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis Outcomes? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies
Post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis affects an estimated one in two people within a decade of traumatic knee injury. While ...
The Dose–Response Relationship of Exercise-Based Injury Prevention Programmes: Implications for Research and Practice
The Dose–Response Relationship of Exercise-Based Injury Prevention Programmes: Implications for Research and Practice
Exercise-based injury prevention programmes (EIPPs) need a certain period of consistent practice to achieve the expected e...
Beyond the Hit: Muscle and Vascular Tissue Responses to Contact Exposure in Collision Sports—A Narrative Review
Beyond the Hit: Muscle and Vascular Tissue Responses to Contact Exposure in Collision Sports—A Narrative Review
Contact events in rugby codes such as tackling, running into contact, scrums, rucks, and contact with the playing surface ...
The Effect of Heat Stress and Dehydration on Carbohydrate Use During Endurance Exercise: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
The Effect of Heat Stress and Dehydration on Carbohydrate Use During Endurance Exercise: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Carbohydrate metabolism during prolonged endurance exercise can be influenced by heat stress and dehydration. While heat e...
Recovery for Professional and Elite Amateur Golfers: A Scoping Review of Evidence-Based Methods
Recovery for Professional and Elite Amateur Golfers: A Scoping Review of Evidence-Based Methods
The lifestyle and athletic demands of a professional or elite amateur golfer are both physically and mentally challenging....
Evaluating the Impact of Urolithin A Supplementation on Running Performance, Recovery, and Mitochondrial Biomarkers in Highly Trained Male Distance Runners
Evaluating the Impact of Urolithin A Supplementation on Running Performance, Recovery, and Mitochondrial Biomarkers in Highly Trained Male Distance Runners
Urolithin A (UA) is a metabolite produced by gut bacteria following the consumption of ellagitannin-rich foods. Clinical t...
Dietary Recommendations for Body Mass and Composition Manipulation in Male and Female Athletes: a Scoping Review of Consensus Statements, Position Stands and Practice Guidelines from International Expert Groups
Dietary Recommendations for Body Mass and Composition Manipulation in Male and Female Athletes: a Scoping Review of Consensus Statements, Position Stands and Practice Guidelines from International Expert Groups
Body mass and composition (fat and fat-free mass) manipulation is a common practice in sport, yet it can pose significant ...
Physical and Mental Recovery for Female Footballers: Considerations and Approaches for Better Practice
Physical and Mental Recovery for Female Footballers: Considerations and Approaches for Better Practice
Increased physiological demands in elite women’s football coupled with growing demands on and off the field of play ...
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