Elite athletes are particularly susceptible to sleep inadequacies, characterised by habitual
short sleep (< 7 hours/night) and poor sleep quality (eg, sleep fragmentation). Athletic …

Many athletes, coaches, and support staff are taking an increasingly scientific approach to
both designing and monitoring training programs. Appropriate load monitoring can aid in …

Mental health symptoms and disorders are common among elite athletes, may have sport
related manifestations within this population and impair performance. Mental health cannot …

Abstract The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine convened a panel of experts to
provide an evidence-based, best practices document to assist sports medicine physicians …

Athletes participating in elite sports are exposed to high training loads and increasingly
saturated competition calendars. Emerging evidence indicates that poor load management …

An increasing interest in a healthy lifestyle raises questions about optimal body weight.
Evidently, it should be clearly discriminated between the standardised “normal” body weight …

Background Information on sleep quality and insomnia symptomatology among elite
athletes remains poorly systematised in the sports science and medicine literature. The …

For elite athletes who exercise at a high level, sleep is critical to overall health. Many studies
have documented the effects of sleep deprivation in the general population, but few studies …

Although its true function remains unclear, sleep is considered critical to human
physiological and cognitive function. Equally, since sleep loss is a common occurrence prior …

Background Coaches, sport scientists, clinicians and medical personnel face a constant
challenge to prescribe sufficient training load to produce training adaption while minimising …