Background Understanding soccer players' match-related fatigue and recovery profiles likely
helps with developing conditioning programs that increase team performance and reduce …

Practicing sport at the highest level is typically accompanied by several stressors and
restrictions on personal life. Elite athletes' lifestyle delivers a significant challenge to sleep …

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 …

A comprehensive monitoring of fitness, fatigue, and performance is crucial for understanding
an athlete's individual responses to training to optimize the scheduling of training and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Balancing training, stress, and recovery is essential for achieving optimal performance. The
performance of professional athletes can be severely compromised by overtraining, injuries …

In football research,'small'trials with low statistical power are common. On the elite level, the
inherently low number of participants obviously conflicts with the relevance of even tiny …

Background Intensified training is important for inducing adaptations to improve athletic
performance, but detrimental performance effects can occur if prescribed inappropriately …