Wellness, Fitness, Body Composition, Training and Performance Monitoring to Improve Athletes Life Quality

Dear Colleagues,

Several studies on training and match load quantification; well-being; as well as fitness and body composition can be found in the literature, especially in soccer with male athletes. However, there are many other sports that intend to produce knowledge on these topics that also deserve merit. In addition, more studies should include women athletes instead of only men.

Although some studies have already been produced, the present Special Issue prioritizes research focusing on the understanding of how training and match monitoring can help to improve athlete quality of life. Therefore, we suggest that authors include wellness, health, fitness, and body composition variables in their studies. In addition, we welcome studies that analyze the relationship of exercise training programs and usual training/match measures such as total distance, distances at different threshold speeds, sprints, acceleration, deceleration, player load, metabolic power, session rated perceived exertion, heart rate, and others. Moreover, original designs that include the analysis of contextual factors (e.g., match location, match results, quality of opponents, match/season periods, and others) are welcome as they provide new knowledge on athlete quality of life. 

Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to provide new and updated knowledge on wellness, fitness, body composition, training, and performance monitoring and how they can be used to improve athlete quality of life.

We believe that this Special Issue will provide relevant information for several sports in order to apply better strategies to the training process, helping athletes to win competitions and improve or maintain their quality of life.

Dr. Rafael Oliveira
Dr. João Paulo Brito
Guest Editors

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