Pre-season Medical Evaluations: An Effective Tool to Identify and Prevent Pathologies and Injuries
In this sense, medical evaluations carried out during the pre-season are considered an essential tool for both young and adult athletes.
In this sense, medical evaluations carried out during the pre-season are considered an essential tool for both young and adult athletes.
Are elite athletes born or made? It depends. Genetic factors can positively contribute to sports performance.
Studying in the morning, training in the afternoon. From the moment the alarm clock goes off to bed time, the day-to-day of a young athlete is marked by a strict routine that takes most of their working hours up.
It has become common to find players over thirty years old who are still active in professional competitions.
Top-level athletes are getting older and older. Technology, materials, nutrition, preparation, injury prevention, financial investment, scientific knowledge, and the excellent level of coaches are some of the factors that have lengthened players’ careers.
Strength training is a fundamental pillar for both injury prevention and performance enhancement in virtually all sports.
The capacity to exercise strength in a short period of time, known as the rate of strength development, is one of the main performance indicators in explosive actions.
Since its creation, the Fútbol Club Barcelona (FCB) Performance Area has developed a work methodology in which the athlete as a human being is the cornerstone to optimise performance in their sport.
Hypoxia (whether normobaric or hypobaric) results in a series of responses such as greater metabolic stress, stronger hormonal response, and greater fast fibre recruitment, which could maximise the adaptations to resistance training.
Carbohydrates are the main energy source during high-intensity exercises. Therefore, it is important to get to the competition with the highest glycogen storage possible.