Integration and Application of Exercise and Sports Science: How Durability Relates to Cycling Performance, Injury Reduction, and Health
A special issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 79
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human performance; exercise as medicine; triathlon; cycling; running; sports nutrition
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: exercise; pulmonary system; asthma; respiratory system function; exercise overtraining
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, advances in technological and sports science have helped reshape the sport of cycling. In particular, the novel concept of durability—defined as the ability to resist deterioration in performance over time, both within and across sessions—has gained attention. Developing methods for assessing and applying this concept could enhance both cycling performance and athlete health in both professional and recreational contexts.
This Special Issue calls for relevant original research, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, narrative reviews, commentaries, opinion articles, and select case reports that relate to the concept of durability for the optimization of competitive cycling performance and overall health for men and women, as well as adolescents.
Specific topics of interest include the following:
- Performance assessment, prediction, and monitoring of durability;
- Applied training and programming to improve durability;
- Optimal cycling biomechanics to reduce overuse injury;
- Nutrition and ergogenic intervention to enhance performance during an exercise session, as well as improve recovery and maintain health;
- The role of psychological durability on performance, injury, and mental health;
- The role of durability on athlete development, lifelong activity, and healthy aging;
- Basic and translational studies of organ system function and durability.
It is our hope that this Special Issue draws new and exciting research, as well as research that reinforces current knowledge.
Dr. Christopher R. Harnish
Dr. Hans Haverkamp
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pediatric exercise
- human performance
- aging
- compression of morbidity
- endurance performance
- sports psychology
- performance metrics
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