Team-sports staff often administer non-exhaustive exercise assessments with a view to
evaluating physiological state, to inform decision making on athlete management (eg, future …

Background: Maximal lower-body strength can be assessed both dynamically and
isometrically; however, the relationship between the changes in these 2 forms of strength …

Various terms used in sport and exercise science, and medicine, are derived from other
fields such as epidemiology, pharmacology and causal inference. Conceptual and …

Because physical demands are surging in football (soccer, USA), clubs are more and more
seeking players who have a high capacity to perform repeated intense exercise. High …

Quantifying training load is important to ensure that athletes correctly respond to training
prescription and reduce injury risk. Training load can be divided into internal training load …

A recent paper called for the abandonment of the term load (and training load) when used
outside its mechanical meaning, claiming it is “unscientific” and “breaches scientific …

Background The objective of soccer training load (TL) is enhancing players' performance
while minimizing the possible negative effects induced by fatigue. In this regard, monitoring …

This study verified the relationship between internal load (IL) and external load (EL) and
their association on injury risk (IR) prediction considering machine learning (ML) …

Background Submaximal fitness tests (SMFT) are a pragmatic approach for evaluating
athlete's physiological state, due to their time-efficient nature, low physiological burden and …

The rugby codes (ie, rugby union, rugby league, rugby sevens [termed 'rugby']) are team-
sports that impose multiple complex physical, perceptual, and technical demands on players …