Efficiency in Kinesiology: Innovative Approaches in Enhancing Motor Skills for Athletic Performance, 4th Edition
A special issue of Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology (ISSN 2411-5142). This special issue belongs to the section "Kinesiology and Biomechanics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 21
Special Issue Editor
Interests: motor control; motor timing; cognitive-motor mechanisms; adaptive control; kinematics; excellent performance; neurorehabilitation
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Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, I am announcing a fourth edition on the implementation of innovative applied research to improve motor skills for reaching superior sporting performances.
Investigations from recent decades have provided enough evidence for the use of certain means as training foundations for sharpening athletic performance, both from a biomotor and technical standpoint.
However, as the field of sports science continues to grow, new methodologies, technologies, and applications for evaluating, improving, or even predicting motor performance draw the attention of the academic realm, infield operators, and general audiences. Nevertheless, sometimes these new means gain wide popularity without apt scientific support, and sometimes the opposite is true—that is, cutting-edge approaches well-validated in the lab sometimes fail to transfer to sporting environments.
Due to the unceasingly evolving nature of sports science as well as the continuous demand for ever-better competitive performance, novel scientific approaches to improve athletes’ motor skills and performances are desired, and their promulgation is of utmost importance for trainers and scientists. Thus, further research is required to grant us deeper understanding of the advantages and limitations in using particular means when aiming to evaluate, predict, and model sporting performance in both amateur and professional/elite athletes.
In this Special Issue, we are looking for original investigations and reviews that introduce novel approaches to defining how leveraging either extrinsic (socio-economic, geographic, early sporting specialization, etc.) or intrinsic factors (training periodization, training methodology, equipment, cross-training, recovery management, etc.) may help upgrade athletes’ motor skills to obtain their best athletic performance.
This Special Issue is supervised by Dr. Diego Minciacchi with assistance from Dr. Vincenzo Sorgente (University of Florence).
Dr. Diego Minciacchi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- kinesiology
- sport science
- sport performance
- biomechanics
- training periodization
- training prescription
- exercise physiology
- athletic performance
- motor performance
- motor skills
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