To avoid excessive exercise-induced load and overtraining, or to facilitate a proper recovery after a sport-related injury, it is essential to adequately monitor exercise intensity and manage fatigue. In this perspective, sport science and technology continuously propose advanced techniques to tackle the challenges of coaches and athletes. It is crucial, especially in endurance sports, to rely on objective measurements of fatigue in order to tailor training sessions and recovery programs to the specific needs of each individual professional or amateur athlete. However, fatigue is a multi-faced phenomenon requiring innovative and integrated approaches, such as: the evaluation of the early-onset manifestations of muscle fatigue in surface electromyograms recorded during an exercise, athletes’ experience of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) 24-72 hours after the exercise ending, metabolic factors influencing fatigue, central and peripheral components of fatigue, as well as the neurocognitive dimension of fatigue.
The goal of this Research Topic is to provide solutions beyond the state of the art for accurately and effectively monitoring fatigue during sporting performance and exercise training, including the evaluation of the return-to-sport timing and the promotion of re-injury prevention strategies. Indeed, properly managing fatigue and fatigue-related symptoms can be a key factor for limiting athletes’ musculoskeletal problems or altered proprioception that can cause traumas. However, this Research Topic will not be limited to contributions related to elite, athletes and para-athletes practicing endurance sports (e.g. soccer, ski, ski-mountaineering, cycling, mountain biking, rowing, swimming, running, wheelchair racing), but it will also welcome studies physical activities for fitness and recreational purposes (e.g. running, hiking, adapted physical activity), including elderly people or subjects affected by non-communicable diseases.
The aim is to collect high-quality original contributions and/or reviews on (but not limited to) the following topics:
• Monitoring and managing fatigue in sport and physical activity.
• Objective evaluations of muscle fatigue, DOMS, metabolic factors of fatigue, and estimation of the effects of mental fatigue on sport-related performances.
• Subjective evaluations of fatigue
• Wearable sensor-based measurements of fatigue performed during training sessions, sport matches, athletic performances or physical activities.
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning for knowledge discovery in sport-related fatigue.
• Quantitative assessment of proprioceptive trainings to reduce muscle fatigue.
• Long-Covid fatigue in athletes.
• Promotion of best practices and tools for physical active aging: improving the adherence to physical activity programs by targeting fatigue issues.
• Gender-specific issues influencing sport-related fatigue of female and male athletes.
• Nutritional strategies and fatigue responses.
To avoid excessive exercise-induced load and overtraining, or to facilitate a proper recovery after a sport-related injury, it is essential to adequately monitor exercise intensity and manage fatigue. In this perspective, sport science and technology continuously propose advanced techniques to tackle the challenges of coaches and athletes. It is crucial, especially in endurance sports, to rely on objective measurements of fatigue in order to tailor training sessions and recovery programs to the specific needs of each individual professional or amateur athlete. However, fatigue is a multi-faced phenomenon requiring innovative and integrated approaches, such as: the evaluation of the early-onset manifestations of muscle fatigue in surface electromyograms recorded during an exercise, athletes’ experience of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) 24-72 hours after the exercise ending, metabolic factors influencing fatigue, central and peripheral components of fatigue, as well as the neurocognitive dimension of fatigue.
The goal of this Research Topic is to provide solutions beyond the state of the art for accurately and effectively monitoring fatigue during sporting performance and exercise training, including the evaluation of the return-to-sport timing and the promotion of re-injury prevention strategies. Indeed, properly managing fatigue and fatigue-related symptoms can be a key factor for limiting athletes’ musculoskeletal problems or altered proprioception that can cause traumas. However, this Research Topic will not be limited to contributions related to elite, athletes and para-athletes practicing endurance sports (e.g. soccer, ski, ski-mountaineering, cycling, mountain biking, rowing, swimming, running, wheelchair racing), but it will also welcome studies physical activities for fitness and recreational purposes (e.g. running, hiking, adapted physical activity), including elderly people or subjects affected by non-communicable diseases.
The aim is to collect high-quality original contributions and/or reviews on (but not limited to) the following topics:
• Monitoring and managing fatigue in sport and physical activity.
• Objective evaluations of muscle fatigue, DOMS, metabolic factors of fatigue, and estimation of the effects of mental fatigue on sport-related performances.
• Subjective evaluations of fatigue
• Wearable sensor-based measurements of fatigue performed during training sessions, sport matches, athletic performances or physical activities.
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning for knowledge discovery in sport-related fatigue.
• Quantitative assessment of proprioceptive trainings to reduce muscle fatigue.
• Long-Covid fatigue in athletes.
• Promotion of best practices and tools for physical active aging: improving the adherence to physical activity programs by targeting fatigue issues.
• Gender-specific issues influencing sport-related fatigue of female and male athletes.
• Nutritional strategies and fatigue responses.