Endurance Sports Performance: Training, Recovery and Injury-Prevention Strategies
A special issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 128
Special Issue Editors
Interests: endurance sports; endurance training; triathlon; elite athletes; testing; lactate; exercise physiology; endurance performance; cycling; swimming; training load
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: endurance sports; endurance training; concurrent training; triathlon; training intensity distribution; training periodization; injury prevention
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Endurance sports have increased in popularity in recent decades. As a result, the scientific community has shown great interest in the training methods and techniques that are most appropriate for increasing performance in these sports, as well as in establishing appropriate recovery and injury-prevention strategies that allow both elite and recreational athletes to accumulate more training load and obtain greater adaptations to training. This Special Issue, therefore, has the key objective of promoting the publication of scientific works with a highly practical component that are useful and relevant for endurance sport coaches to increase their training quality. Therefore, authors are encouraged to present new lines of research and proposals related to training methods, training periodization, the quantification of training load, and the distribution of training intensity in endurance sports. On the other hand, this Special Issue also seeks to become a forum for the discussion of recovery methods and injury-prevention strategies used in endurance sports. For all of these reasons, we invite authors to submit original research papers on or specific reviews of performance in endurance sports, in both elite and recreational athletes. Research with a highly practical component and that shows a close relationship between scientific evidence and field work will be highly valued.
Dr. Roberto Cejuela Anta
Dr. Sergio Selles-Perez
Dr. Jonathan Esteve-Lanao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- endurance sports
- training periodization
- endurance training
- injury prevention
- sports physiology
- training intensity distribution
- training methods
- testing
- endurance performance
- training load
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