Advances in Health-Optimized Athletic Training
A special issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 2106
Special Issue Editors
Interests: healthy ageing; sports training; assistive technologies; physical activity; physical fitness; physical education
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Interests: sports science; information technology in sports; biomechanics of sports; diagnostics in sports and health training
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Interests: physical activity; health; public health; obesity and underweight; physical fitness
Interests: sports management; sports marketing; physical education; entrepreneurship and innovation in sports; active/sports tourism
Interests: football; talent identification and development; small-sided games; physical performance; match analysis; sports injuries
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The evolution of sports training is based on the pursuit of knowledge about how the body adapts to various physical and psychological stress factors during training. Advances in sports training depend on a holistic approach that integrates various interdisciplinary fields, contributing to a deeper understanding and a more effective application to enhance the athlete's performance capacity. The optimization of successful sports training, regardless of the sport, age group, or level, is achieved by developing systematic training plans that leverage accumulated knowledge from physiology, biomechanics, health, pedagogy, sociology, statistics, technology, and other fields. Research in health-optimized athleticTraining has primarily focused on the physiological effects and impacts of training loads, the effectiveness of different training interventions, the most efficient recovery modalities, nutritional countermeasures and biomechanical factors, and technological advancements supporting training monitoring. This Special Issue will address topics from various interdisciplinary areas that contribute to a better understanding of training processes, aiming to enhance health and athletes' performance in terms of multilateral physical development, sport-specific physical development, technical skills, tactical abilities, psychological characteristics, injury resistance, and theoretical knowledge about the processes involved.
Dr. Élvio Rúbio Gouveia
Dr. Krzysztof Przednowek
Dr. Rui Nuno Trindade de Ornelas
Dr. Hélio Ricardo Lourenço Antunes
Dr. Hugo Miguel Borges Sarmento
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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-blind 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.
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Keywords
- physiology
- human fitness
- health fitness
- exercise prescription
- fitness assessment
- training programmes
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