Resistance Training: Acute Responses, Short and Long-Term Adaptations in Athletic Performance and Health
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 88
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Interests: strength and conditioning; athletic performance; sports science; exercise science; resistance training; muscle physiology; exercise physiology; exercise performance; exercise testing; sport physiology; sports biomechanics; Olympic weightlifting
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Interests: strength & conditioning; exercise physiology; biochemistry of exercise; muscle morphology; muscle metabolism; muscle damage; neuromuscular system; training; training adaptations; performance; body functionality; sports nutrition
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Resistance training has repeatedly been proven to be key to increasing performance in almost all team and individual sports, as well as a fundamental factor for enhancing human health. Depending on the aim of training, coaches often design resistance training programs to enhance muscle endurance, hypertrophy, maximum strength, power, speed and various health-related parameters using periodized training plans. According to the executed resistance training programs, specific adaptations in neural activation, muscle mass, muscle morphology, and fiber-type composition, as well as physiological–metabolic–mechanical properties of muscle fibers, occur, which eventually improves athletic performance, body functionality, metabolism and health status. Various forms of resistance training, including resistance machines, free weights, weightlifting derivatives, functional exercises on stable or unstable surfaces, and resistance training methods, such as ballistic-power training, velocity-based training, complex compound training and traditional resistance training, are used every day by sports scientist and coaches to increase athletic performance, as well as to help athletes and trainees to recover from injuries and improve neuromuscular disorders/conditions and cardio-metabolic health conditions. Therefore, this special issue will collect manuscripts that investigate the effects of acute responses and short-/long term adaptations following resistance training programs on athletic performance and human health. We welcome different types of manuscript submissions, including original research articles, reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, that provide novel and application-based information outcomes on these topics.
Dr. Nikolaos Zaras
Dr. Spyridon Methenitis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resistance training
- functionality and health
- acute/short-/long-term training interventions
- sports performance
- body composition
- neuromuscular adaptations
- muscle architecture characteristics
- muscle fiber type composition
- non-communicable chronic diseases
- elderly and sedentary individuals
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