Mechanisms of Hamstring Strain Injury: Interactions between Fatigue, Muscle Activation and Function
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Associatons Between Self-Reported Well-being and Neuromuscular Performance During a Professional Rugby Union Season
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Everything You Need to Know About Using Wellness Questionnaires in Sport
Athlete self-report measures (ASRM) can be a relatively simple and inexpensive means for determining an athlete’s training load and his or her subsequent responses to that training [20]. In fact, using ASRM, such as wellness questionnaires, is the most common method for monitoring athlete fatigue and recovery in high performance sport in New Zealand and Australia [28]. And for good reason, as we will soon discover.
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Heart Rate Recovery: An Underutilized Metric for Identifying Fitness and Fatigue in Athletes
Evaluating athlete preparedness for competition demands, and understanding how prescribed training affects fitness and fatigue parameters, is of utmost importance for applied sport professionals. Routinely assessing heart rate recovery can provide pragmatic, cost-effective insights for these evaluations.
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Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in Sport: A Review of the Research
Most athletes and sport science personnel understand the importance of recovery after exercise, which is defined as the return of body homeostasis after training to pre-training or near pre-training levels [28].
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Measuring Exercise Intensity Using A Simple Yet Accurate Method: The Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) Scale
“Why can’t you just tell me how you really feel, because the way you act is confusing me” – Unknown