Strength and Conditioning Society 2023: Sports Performance, Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Health Improvement

Dear Colleagues,

On the occasion of the Strength and Conditioning Society (SCS) 6th Annual Conference and Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Physiology of Exercise (EEVFA) 11th International Congress of Biochemistry and Physiology of Exercise held in the headquarters of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, we are delighted to host this Special Issue of Sports (Basel), the SCS’ publishing partner. The Special Issue aims to disseminate evidence-based training approaches and publish studies related to applied strength and conditioning practices with implications for sports performance, injury prevention, rehabilitation, and health improvement. We are particularly interested in providing authors that submitted an abstract to the SCS 6th Annual Conference with the opportunity to publish the full-text version of their work in this Special Issue. Nevertheless, we extend the invitation to all authors who wish to submit their research with athletes from different sports, competitive levels, age categories, and training backgrounds.

Sports performance is complex and multifactorial, and studies focused on strength, power, and speed training and testing practices, aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, injury risk mitigation and health improvement in athletic populations are required to provide practitioners with up-to-date scientific evidence. We recognize that conducting research in real-world settings is challenging and that the methodological approaches used in these situations may differ from those employed in laboratory settings. However, we are aware that the results from applied research are more likely to be implemented in high-performance sport environments. Original articles, reviews, case studies, short reports and opinion pieces are welcomed.

Dr. Pedro E. Alcaraz
Prof. Dr. Gregory C. Bogdanis
Dr. Konstantinos Spyrou
Dr. Tomás T. Freitas
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-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.

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.