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With participation in cycling on the rise, so too are the chronic injuries that can come with the sport. These are caused by training errors including rapid increases in training volume and/or [...]

Critically high levels in body temperature is the main factor that limits endurance performance in hot environments (1). Both dehydration and hypothermia effect the athlete in their mental and [...]

During post exercise recovery, optimal nutritional intake is important to replenish endogenous substrate stores and to facilitate muscle-damage repair. (1) With muscle glycogen contributing more [...]

What happens to the muscle following exercise: Strenuous or unaccustomed exercise damages muscle cell structures and impairs muscle function (1). Significantly more damage occurs during eccentric [...]

The menstrual cycle not only has a profound effect on fertility, the natural fluctuations of hormones impact exercise metabolism, plasma volume levels, thermoregulation and more (1). This [...]

What is “tapering” Tapering is a training strategy to enhance performance in the most important athletic competitions (2). It aims to optimise performance by reducing training load in the final [...]