Blood test data were traditionally confined to the clinic for diagnostic purposes, but are now
becoming more routinely used in many professional and elite high-performance settings as …

Blood-based biomarkers can provide an objective individualized measure of training load,
recovery, and health status in order to reduce injury risk and maximize performance. Despite …

Abstract Lee, EC, Fragala, MS, Kavouras, SA, Queen, RM, Pryor, JL, and Casa, DJ.
Biomarkers in sports and exercise: tracking health, performance, and recovery in athletes. J …

Physiological Tests for Elite Athletes, Second Edition, presents the most current protocols
used for assessing high-level athletes. Based on the insight and experience of sport …

Abstract Huggins, RA, Fortunati, AR, Curtis, RM, Looney, DP, West, CA, Lee, EC, Fragala,
MS, Hall, ML, and Casa, DJ. Monitoring blood biomarkers and training load throughout a …

BACKGROUND: In elite sports, the growing availability of doping substances identical to
those naturally produced by the human body seriously limits the ability of drug-testing …

Assessing current fatigue of athletes to fine-tune training prescriptions is a critical task in
competitive sports. Blood-borne surrogate markers are widely used despite the scarcity of …

The need to evaluate the health status of an athlete represents a crucial aim in preventive
and protective sports science in order to identify the best diagnostic strategy to improve …

Body composition is acknowledged as a determinant of athletic health and performance. Its
assessment is crucial in evaluating the efficiency of a diet or aspects related to the nutritional …

This landmark book delivers into your hands the work and thinking of two long-standing
authorities in biochemical monitoring whose work has not been widely available in the West …