The relationship between recovery and fatigue and its impact on performance has attracted
the interest of sport science for many years. An adequate balance between stress (training …

In today's competitive sport environment, discovering effective methods of facilitating optimal
athletic performance is paramount to success. The recovery period is essential in …

Physiological and psychological demands during training and competition generate fatigue
and reduce an athlete's sport-specific performance capacity. The magnitude of this …

Performance in team sports is the expression of complex, dynamic, interactive, and
multidimensional processes. It is now well-established that optimum recovery after practice …

Enhancing Recovery: Preventing Underperformance in Athletes is the first book to address
the multifaceted aspects and significance of recovery in maintaining high-level athletic …

The focus of this chapter is on the conceptualization of recovery and the close relationship
between underrecovery and overtraining. An oversimplified description of underrecovery is …

In sports, the importance of optimizing the recovery–stress state is critical. Effective recovery
from intense training loads often faced by elite athletes can often determine sporting success …

Monitoring recovery in the context of athletic performance has gained significant importance
during recent years. As a systematic process of data collection and evaluation, the …

Why should we study the recovery from exercise as a discrete phenomenon from exercise
itself? We identify three distinct (but not mutually exclusive) rationales that drive the need to …

Optimum performance requires a balance between training stress and recovery. Thus,
programming recovery needs to be an active and integral part of an athlete's program …