Is Milk an Effective Option for Recovery?
Recovery is one of the main processes to improve sports performance. Within the many factors that condition a good recovery, nutrition is one of the main ones.
Recovery is one of the main processes to improve sports performance. Within the many factors that condition a good recovery, nutrition is one of the main ones.
The evolution of elite sport has meant that players undertake high competitive loads caused by schedules packed with extremely demanding matches and practically no rest periods between them.
To schedule and prescribe training throughout the season, we need to know the physical demands that occur during competition as accurately as possible, so that exercises can be set that prepare the players to withstand real game situations.
What if a maximum demand scenario doesn’t only happen once but several times? Straight after asking ourselves the question, we started turning it around in our heads.
The warm-up plays an important role in exercise by improving the performance and reducing the injury risk.
Nutrition plays an essential role for an athletes’ performance and health. One of the nutrients athletes pay more attention to, are carbohydrates.
Exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) can have important consequences for the performance of athletes as it is associated with muscle pain and a decrease of the neuromuscular function.
Many countries have had to implement numerous preventive strategies due to the pandemic, and confinement is one of the most notable ones.
The routine monitoring of training loads and athletes’ fitness is an essential process to ensure an optimal performance progression.
Muscle injuries involve more than 30 % of injuries in professional football players.