Fostering Sport for a Healthy Life
A special issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 153
Special Issue Editors
Interests: exercise science; strength and conditioning planning; resistance training; exercise testing; physical fitness; exercise physiology; physical activity assessment; performance testing; personal training
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Interests: exercise; adapted physical activity; disability; posture
Interests: heart rate variability; EEG; exercise; chronic pain; psychophysiology; exergames
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Participation in sport is the central construct for the achievement of any individual’s health. In fact, sport enters any life stage, ranging from youth development, for the support of physical and cognitive growth, to healthy aging, for the reduction in the decline in body functioning. Sport has a vast spectrum of competitive level and purposes, but it represents a source of opportunities for any individual to reach new achievements in life. Therefore, it is essential to investigate all the possible factors that influence the performance of a variety of sport disciplines. Similarly, it is still necessary to explain several mechanisms that explain human responses to sport performance. Moreover, the new challenges that society is currently facing at global level and the new opportunities offered by numerous technologies and artificial intelligence enlarge the field of research and the creation of implications for athletes and general population. Several research questions still remain unanswered and new concepts must be defined.
Therefore, articles in the form of reviews with meta-analysis and original research centered on prospective longitudinal studies and randomized controlled trials are invited for this Special Issue, especially those combining a high academic standard coupled with practical implications for practitioners and policy-makers.
Dr. Giancarlo Condello
Dr. Valentina Presta
Dr. Santos Villafaina
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- youth athletes
- elite athletes
- master athletes
- physical and cognitive functioning
- training intervention programs
- big data analysis
- sport technology
- sport physiology
- molecular signaling
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