Professional football players can be called up for National Team duty at various points in the year including short periods of ~10 days in competitive seasons and every couple of years a major international tournament is played.
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.
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.