About this Research Topic
Coaches and integrated support team members work together to periodize training programs to facilitate sporting and physiological development. Within the yearly training plan, these concentrated training periods often involve increased amounts of exercise stress. The acute response in physiological functioning, anthropometry, and sports performance, during these periods remain largely unknown. Advancements in wearable technology allow practitioners to quantify the dose of exercise stress using GPS or heart rate monitoring. The dose response to exercise can then be examined using non-invasive equipment such as:
1) DEXA or the BODPOD for investigating changes in body composition and bone remodeling,
2) force plates, speed gates, and dynamometers for exploring musculoskeletal performance,
3) cardiorespiratory performance using direct or indirect testing, and
4) measures such as blood pressure, heart rate variability (HRV), stroke volume, and cardiac output to demonstrate cardiovascular function.
This Research Topic will look to provide coaches and practitioners with examples of how athletes respond to concentrated training periods and what can be adapted to elicit the desired response. Specific attention will be given to examining the dose response to exercise for enhancing athletic development, and to showcase potential training methods/techniques that can be replicated.
This Research Topic is to bring together a collection of papers on examining physiological, anthropometric, and sports performance adaptations from specific phases of a yearly training plan. To achieve this, we aim to collect a broad range of manuscripts in the fields of Sport Science, Sport Medicine, and Exercise Physiology. We welcome the submission of manuscripts that examine the following in both team sport athletes and athletes within individual sporting events:
- Cardiovascular function
- Cardiorespiratory Performance
- Training load (GPS | sRPE | HR derived TL)
- Anthropometry (Body Composition & Bone Remodeling)
- Sports Performance - Musculoskeletal Function
1) DEXA or the BODPOD for investigating changes in body composition and bone remodeling,
2) force plates, speed gates, and dynamometers for exploring musculoskeletal performance,
3) cardiorespiratory performance using direct or indirect testing, and
4) measures such as blood pressure, heart rate variability (HRV), stroke volume, and cardiac output to demonstrate cardiovascular function.
This Research Topic will look to provide coaches and practitioners with examples of how athletes respond to concentrated training periods and what can be adapted to elicit the desired response. Specific attention will be given to examining the dose response to exercise for enhancing athletic development, and to showcase potential training methods/techniques that can be replicated.
This Research Topic is to bring together a collection of papers on examining physiological, anthropometric, and sports performance adaptations from specific phases of a yearly training plan. To achieve this, we aim to collect a broad range of manuscripts in the fields of Sport Science, Sport Medicine, and Exercise Physiology. We welcome the submission of manuscripts that examine the following in both team sport athletes and athletes within individual sporting events:
- Cardiovascular function
- Cardiorespiratory Performance
- Training load (GPS | sRPE | HR derived TL)
- Anthropometry (Body Composition & Bone Remodeling)
- Sports Performance - Musculoskeletal Function
Keywords: Sport Science, Exercise Physiology, Sport Medicine, Exercise Testing, Periodization
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