Health, Exercise and Sports Performance

Dear Colleagues,

From the beginning of the century, health fitness and exercise have become emerging topics in research. On a regular basis, sports-related professionals require the support of evidence-based knowledge to satisfactorily respond to an increasingly demanding population. Physical exercise is strongly linked to physiological variables, which are dependent on biomechanical profiles and motor strategies. Improvements, even considered marginal, in these features can lead to a significant final improvement. There is a need to better understand dose–response patterns to exercise challenges and to find strategies to enhance health and human performance (e.g., understand the response to different sports, design exercise programs, warm-ups, recovery techniques). There seems to exist a common ground for different exercise programs, and performance appears as the ultimate purpose for any physical activity participant. Everyone aspires to improve, meeting their final goals and consequently enhancing their performance. So, a deeper look at the dose–response effects in different populations and at how to design effective and efficient exercise programs for health and sports improvement is needed. For this Special Issue, we invite submissions that analyze physical exercise on the basis of physiological and biomechanical motor control and strength and conditioning inputs and describe and predict the human movement and its relationship to health benefits and fitness. Implications for performance enhancement may also be addressed.

Dr. Daniel Almeida Marinho
Dr. Henrique Pereira Neiva
Guest Editors

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