2nd Edition: Fitness Assessment, Athlete’s Monitoring Cycle and Training Interventions in Team Sports
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Exercise and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2022) | Viewed by 41586
Special Issue Editors
Interests: football; soccer; match analysis; performance analysis; network analysis
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Interests: match analysis; talent identification; sports training; team sports; small-sided games
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Dear Colleagues,
Fitness assessment and player’s monitoring are two key support strategies to improve the individualization of a training intervention in team sports. In the last decade, research interest in fitness assessment and monitoring has being quickly growing, in a number of publications, and also in the practical implementation in sports science departments supporting the teams. Now, athletic and technical/tactical tests performed periodically are part of the schedule, while using different training load monitoring, well-being, or readiness tests are part of daily or weekly approaches to be conducted with team sports players. Those processes ensure a better understanding of the status of the players and allow individual training approaches in case of need.
Naturally, the training process is a determinant of performance. For that reason, fitness assessment and monitoring are just parts of the process. The training design and plan are the big contributors for preparing the players for the competition, and particular attention should be paid to individualization processes, dose-response relationships or analyses of the heterogeneity of the effect of a given training intervention.
Therefore, and following the first following Special Issue “Fitness Assessment, Athlete’s Monitoring Cycle and Training Interventions in Team Sports”, we are launching the second edition that looks for articles covering the topics of fitness assessment, monitoring, and training intervention in team sports. In particular, we are interested in receiving high-quality and novel original articles, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses that may provide important information about (but not exclusively) the following topics:
(i) adjustment of a training intervention to a fitness assessment and monitoring;
(ii) individual and group effects of training interventions for sports performance or injury risk reduction;
(iii) individualized training approaches for sports players in return-to-play;
(iv) data treatment and workload measures for team sports analysis; and
(v) integration of covariables that may constrain the sports performance.
Dr. Filipe Manuel Clemente
Dr. Hugo Sarmento
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- team sports
- athletic performance
- technical performance
- tactical performance
- match analysis
- performance analysis
- load monitoring
- training intervention
- sports training
- return-to-play
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