About this Research Topic
Regular exercise benefits multiple facets of health. Conversely, the explosion of popular sporting activities such as marathons, ultra-endurance races and cross-fit programs means that a recreationally active individual has access to, and may be performing significantly higher amounts of exercise than may be optimal for health. Such individuals may experience overreaching, in which training volume has exceeded the recovery process and can result in detrimental physiological states, such as hypothalamus pituitary axis (HPA) disturbance, changes in menstrual cycles etc. Public health associations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and other professional societies such as the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommend a minimum of 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activities on 5 days a week, or a minimum of 20 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activities on 2 days a week. While such guidelines are meant to encourage public participation in general physical activities, they do not cater for enthusiastic individuals, such as recreational athletes, who engage in high frequencies, durations and intensities of training that culminates in consecutive days of exercise training. As well, even amongst general individuals that adhere to the aforementioned public health guidelines, the recovery periods between exercise sessions are not well studied.
Specifically, there is insufficient information on recovery periods between sessions of heavy exercise training. Whether, and how consecutive days of heavy exercise training adversely affects molecular and cellular homeostasis, particularly from the immune, cardiometabolic and endocrinal perspective is not well-studied and is of immense interest. On the other end of the spectrum, such as in clinical rehabilitation, consecutive days of exercise training are often unclear as it pertains to the adaptation processes of untrained clinical populations.
In this Research Topic, authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts (original research, narrative reviews, perspectives, systematic reviews, clinical case reports) on exercise training frequency and inter-session recovery, with a focus on the molecular, cellular and physiological effects of such training paradigms, as well as periodization and planning of the training process. Other areas of inquiry including chronobiology, such as the impact of sleep on training recovery and diurnal differences in training recovery (e.g. responses to morning or evening training) are also accepted.
Specifically, there is insufficient information on recovery periods between sessions of heavy exercise training. Whether, and how consecutive days of heavy exercise training adversely affects molecular and cellular homeostasis, particularly from the immune, cardiometabolic and endocrinal perspective is not well-studied and is of immense interest. On the other end of the spectrum, such as in clinical rehabilitation, consecutive days of exercise training are often unclear as it pertains to the adaptation processes of untrained clinical populations.
In this Research Topic, authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts (original research, narrative reviews, perspectives, systematic reviews, clinical case reports) on exercise training frequency and inter-session recovery, with a focus on the molecular, cellular and physiological effects of such training paradigms, as well as periodization and planning of the training process. Other areas of inquiry including chronobiology, such as the impact of sleep on training recovery and diurnal differences in training recovery (e.g. responses to morning or evening training) are also accepted.
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