maximizing sports performance
The demanding rhythm of improving sports performance, leads many athletes and coaches to excessive training loads, resulting to overtraining. Failure to adaptation and overwork as a coaching phenomenon leads to reduced performance, while also often injuries might occur that eventualy will prevent the athlete from […]
Coaching is wonderful! This phrase says everything. The coach is a creator and has the responsibility but also the joy of enjoying his creation if he has achieved his purpose. Improving the performance of his athlete or team, breaking a record or winning a game […]
Speed endurance is the ability of an athlete to maintain his maximum speed for a period of 3 to 20 seconds. A different approach is to assess and potentially minimize deceleration after reaching maximum speed, also known as Vmax. There are two key elements to […]
Avksenty (Avksendi) Cezarevich Puni (1898 – 1986) was one of the most influential Soviet sports psychologists, whose work shaped how sprint performance was understood and trained in the USSR. Rather than viewing speed as a purely physical quality, Puni approached sprinting as a psychophysiological skill, […]
How Neural Science, Psychology, and High-Performance Training Converge to Create Faster, More Efficient Athletes Introduction Modern athletic performance is no longer defined only by muscle, conditioning, or biomechanics. The most successful athletes today leverage insights from neural engineering—a field that studies how the nervous system […]
Academic Evaluation of the Linardatos Elite Coaching (LEC) Philosophy This academic report presents a comprehensive evaluation of the Linardatos Elite Coaching (LEC) Philosophy. Drawing from primary materials including Linardatos’s book “Coaching Perspectives in Sprint Events” (in Greek: ‘Προπονητικές Απόψεις στους Δρόμους Ταχύτητας’. ISBN 978-618-00-0300-0. 2018), […]
Hebanthe eriantha, commonly known as Suma or “Brazilian ginseng,” is a plant found throughout South America, a plant with deep roots that pull nutrients from the soil. For this reason, suma’s roots are the richest source of its bioactive compounds. Suma has acquired different scientific […]
Neuroplasticity or brain plasticity is defined as the ability of the nervous system to change its activity in response to intrinsic or extrinsic stimuli by reorganizing its structure, functions, or connections. A fundamental property of neurons is their ability to modify the strength and efficacy […]
The kinetic energy of body weight as a muscle enhancement factor is the key element of the Shock Method. It is the sudden, obligatory muscle tension that is caused by the impact of the body (collision) with an external object. Collision is an isolated event […]
Speed endurance is the ability of an athlete to maintain his maximum speed for a period of 3 to 20 seconds. A different approach is to assess and potentially minimize deceleration after reaching maximum speed, also known as Vmax. There are two key elements to […]
Anaerobic lactate power is characterized by the athletic ability to produce high – intensity work for a relatively short period of time near or above critical levels of lactic acid in the blood (16 – 18 mM / l, heart rate). > 190 / minute). […]
The physical limits of the human performance have been the object of study for a considerable time. Most of the research has focused on the locomotor muscles, lungs, and heart. As a consequence, much of the contemporary literature has ignored the importance of the brain […]
Everyone feels stressed from time to time, but what is stress? How does it affect your overall health? And what can you do to manage your stress? Stress is how the brain and body respond to any demand. Any type of challenge—such as performance at […]
The Comfort Zone is a psychological or mental state, according to which the person feels familiar in a given environment and manages it comfortably, with low levels of stress and intensity. The person avoids difficulties and uses a limited set of behaviors that provide a […]
Anatoliy Pavlovych Bondarchuk (Ukrainian, 31 May 1940 – 23 December 2025) was a retired Soviet hammer thrower, who is regarded as the most accomplished hammer throw coach of all time. He is also a noted as the author of the two-volume book Transfer of Training in Sports, which was translated from Russian […]
Background: Altitude endurance training stimulates erythropoietin hormone (EPO) release and increases blood hemoglobin (Hb) mass, which may result in improved oxygen (O2) transport capacity. It was hypothesized in the present study that periodic inhalation of carbon monoxide (CO) might elicit similar physiological adaptations compared to altitude […]
To maximize sports performance, training should focus, among other, into improvements of the body’s metabolic processes. This will eventually enable the athlete to perform at increasingly higher stress levels. This adaptation to higher stress levels is affected by the following factors:
Training for adaptation of metabolism for sprinting (or speed related sports) should therefore result in the improvement of:
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