Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
4.3
3.2
Journals
Sports
Special Issues
Comprehensive Study of Aquatic Sports
share announcement

Comprehensive Study of Aquatic Sports

A Special Issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027 | Viewed by 1445

Editors

Dr. Sabrina Demarie

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, Università degli Studi di Roma "Foro Italico", 00135 Rome, Italy
Interests: athlete’s health; athlete and team management; training monitoring and planning; performance analysis and enhancement
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Veronique Billat

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Laboratoire Informatique, Bio-Informatique Et Systèmes Complexes (IBISC), EA 4526, Université Paris-Saclay, 91020 Evry, France
Interests: training; physiology; performance
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Aquatic sports are becoming more popular; this has led to growing scientific interest in factors influencing technical efficiency, athletic performance, and injury risk. Cutting-edge research increasingly features individualization, monitoring, and planning of training through laboratory or field tests that track real-time responses. Psychological research is increasingly focused on the development of mental skills, stress and motivation management, as well as the influence of coach–athlete interactions on performance. Sports medicine explores common overuse injuries and the biomechanical and physiological factors that contribute to them. Thus, the scope of this Special Issue is to provide a solid, interdisciplinary outline of contemporary knowledge, encompassing elite athlete performance and health. We aim to connect different research areas that can inform coaching, training design, athlete monitoring, and injury prevention. We welcome submissions based on original research, as well as reviews and meta-analyses, short communications or methodological papers, conceptual or theoretical papers, and case studies.

Dr. Sabrina Demarie
Prof. Dr. Veronique Billat
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sports is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • swimming efficiency
  • performance analysis
  • training monitoring
  • training planning
  • injury prevention
  • sports medicine
  • interdisciplinary research
  • water-based exercise
  • paddle boarding
  • diving
  • rowing
  • water polo

Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue

  • Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
  • Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
  • Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
  • External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
  • Reprint: MDPI Books provides the opportunity to republish successful Special Issues in book format, both online and in print.

Further information on MDPI's Special Issue policies can be found here.

Published Papers (1 paper)

Order results
Result details
Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

12 pages, 1529 KB  
Article
Physiological and Perceptual Internal Load During Kitesurfing Under Real-World Sea Conditions
by Nicola Mancini, Nicola Mangione, Siria Mancini, Vlad Teodor Grosu, Emilia Florina Grosu, Mariasole Antonietta Guerriero, Dan Monea, Giovanni Messina, Marcellino Monda, Rita Polito and Fiorenzo Moscatelli
Sports 2026, 14(3), 117; https://doi.org/10.3390/sports14030117 - 17 Mar 2026
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 870
Abstract
Background: Kitesurfing is a wind-propelled water sport performed in highly variable environmental conditions. Scientific evidence describing internal load under standardized ecological sea constraints remains limited. Aim: This study aimed to characterize cardiovascular and perceptual responses during a standardized kitesurfing session and to examine [...] Read more.
Background: Kitesurfing is a wind-propelled water sport performed in highly variable environmental conditions. Scientific evidence describing internal load under standardized ecological sea constraints remains limited. Aim: This study aimed to characterize cardiovascular and perceptual responses during a standardized kitesurfing session and to examine associations among heart rate-based internal load indices, session rating of perceived exertion, and global navigation satellite system-derived external output variables. Methods: A total of 112 male recreational kitesurfers (32.1 ± 6.8 years) completed a 40–50 min standardized session under monitored wind conditions (17–22 knots) along a predefined approximately 800 m course. Heart rate was continuously recorded, and session rating of perceived exertion (Borg Category-Ratio 10 scale) was collected 30 ± 5 min post-session. Training impulse, mean percentage of maximal heart rate, and session rating of perceived exertion load were calculated. Pearson correlation analyses with bootstrapping (1000 resamples) and five percent trimming were performed, with statistical significance set at 0.05. Results: Sessions were performed at 78.4 ± 9.1 percent of maximal heart rate. Training impulse and mean percentage of maximal heart rate were strongly associated (correlation coefficient = 0.90, probability value < 0.001), reflecting the shared heart rate-based structure of these metrics. Training impulse showed a moderate association with session rating of perceived exertion load (correlation coefficient = 0.46, probability value < 0.001). No significant associations were observed between internal load indices and global navigation satellite system-derived mean speed (correlation coefficient = −0.14, probability value = 0.149) or distance (correlation coefficient = 0.06, probability value = 0.555). Sensitivity analyses confirmed the stability of the observed associations. Conclusions: Under standardized ecological sea conditions, kitesurfing sessions were characterized by sustained high submaximal cardiovascular intensity. Heart rate-based and perceptual measures showed consistent associations within this protocol, whereas global navigation satellite system-derived external outputs were not significantly related to internal load indices. Within the limits of this cross-sectional ecological design, the combined use of one heart rate-based indicator and session rating of perceived exertion offers a coherent and practically interpretable description of session internal load in open-water kitesurfing. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Comprehensive Study of Aquatic Sports)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:
 
Displaying articles 1-1
Back to TopTop