Maximising Triathlon Health and Performance: the State of the Art
A special issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2024) | Viewed by 99194
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medical support; elites; training; health in triathletes both across the lifespan and vs. their sedentary age-matched peers; training adaptation; training diary based predictive models that can be used to minimize the occurrence of non-functional overreaching; injury and illness; pacing
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Interests: training monitoring; elite athletes; endurance athletes (open water swimmers, triathletes and runners) functional and non-functional overreaching; overtraining prevention
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to presents some of the latest findings at the cutting edge of all aspects of triathlon health and performance. The idea arose from round table discussions on how to optimise training and performance that took place between some of the best coaches, medics, sports physiologists, researchers and athletes in the sport when they met in Lisbon in 2017. We aim to bring together a collection of papers that will act as a spur to the instigation and expansion of collaborative research projects that have the potential to improve applied practice in our sport. The key topics for which we invite paper submissions are:
- Triathlon health in training and or competition (health evaluation, event medical care, open water swimming, heat acclimation).
- Training and risk factors for maladaptation (as evidenced by injury, illness, and non functional overreaching and or performance stagnation)- including how it may change with athlete age, ability level and event distance specialisation.
- Optimising training and race preparation- at the cutting edge (preparation for the Olympic Games, what can scientists tell coaches, what can coaches tell scientist, what do athletes want, how technology can change the game e.g. as regards research into the aetiology and prediction of maladaptation).
Although this Special Issue of Sports focuses on triathlon, the papers contained within it should also prove relevant both to its component sports and to the optimisation of performance and health in endurance sports in general.
Dr. Veronica Vleck
Prof. Dr. Maria Francesca Piacentini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- training
- maladaptation
- monitoring
- injury
- illness
- non-functional overreaching
- predictive analytics
- medical
- Big data
- neural networks
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