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

Rugby union (RU) is a skill-collision team sport played at junior and senior levels worldwide.
Within England, age-grade rugby governs the participation and talent development of youth …

Athletes involved in contact sports are habitually exposed to skeletal-muscle damage in their
training and performance environments. This often leads to exercise-induced muscle …

In the sport of rugby, athletes need a multitude of sport-specific skills along with endurance,
power, and speed to optimize performance. Further, it is not unusual for athletes to play …

Background Professional rugby union is a high-intensity contact sport with position-specific
high training and match volumes across a season that may lead to periods of fatigue if …

Purpose The neurotransmitter serotonin has a strong effect on behaviour and motor control.
Regarding motor control, serotonin contributes to the development of fatigue and is also …

Objectives Biochemical (eg creatine kinase (CK)) and neuromuscular (eg peak power output
(PPO)) markers of recovery are expensive and require specialist equipment. Perceptual …

This study investigated the changes in measures of neuromuscular fatigue and physical
performance in young professional rugby union players during a preseason training period …

Abstract Aben, HGJ, Hills, SP, Cooke, CB, Davis, D, Jones, B, and Russell, M. Profiling the
post-match recovery response in male rugby: A systematic review. J Strength Cond Res 36 …

In sport, testosterone has been positioned as a substrate for motivation with both directional
and time dependencies. However, evidence is scarce when considering the complexities of …