IRREGULAR SLEEP: THE ENEMY OF PERFORMANCE IN TEENAGERS
There is an increasing tendency among teenagers all over the world to sleep fewer hours during the week and to make up for it over the weekend.
There is an increasing tendency among teenagers all over the world to sleep fewer hours during the week and to make up for it over the weekend.
Training load (TL) management is a key component for optimising performance. Understanding TL will allow us to evaluate fatigue and to anticipate overload and overtraining in order to minimise injury risk.
Nutrition plays a major role and has a great impact on all aspects of our lives. It is even more important when we are talking about recovery post-exercise.
Nutrition should help optimise everyone’s health, but for athletes also optimises performance and it is a key component for reaching one’s maximum physical development.
Facilitating proper recovery after training sessions is essential to improve the athlete’s performance.
When athletes train or compete in a hot environment, their body temperature increases and a series of mechanisms for eliminating heat are triggered.
Chronic Achilles tendinopathy is one of the most common tendon disorders, both for athletes and for people who are not necessarily involved in sports.
FC Barcelona’s first team doctors Mindaugas Gudelis and Ricard Pruna reviewed a series of cases and carried out a brief clinical analysis of familial hypercholesterolemia in high-performance athletes in an article for the scientific journal Apunts Medicina de L’Esport.
An article published in the scientific journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise has shown that a FATMAX stress test on professional footballers not only provides cardiovascular fitness levels, but also helps to understand the players’ main energy metabolism.
Up until a few years ago, it was considered normal for sportspeople to have digestive problems while exercising.