An Essential Guide to Sports Performance

Abstract

This collection investigates hot topics related to sports performance, that is, the match analysis, the training loads, the physical performance, the anthropometric characteristics and the recovery strategies in outfield and goalkeeper soccer players. In addition, this book analyzes the influence of contextual variables and initial players’ level on the athletes’ performances. Thus, coach staff could find relevant information and practical approaches to include in the soccer training processes. Furthermore, a systematic review of how periodize the training loads troughout a mycrocicle is written to understand the training process substantially. Additionally, this collection focuses on the methodology of muscle force of volleyball players as well as a relevant topic, which could apply to any sports modality, such as the flexibility interventions and protocols to optimize the athletes’’ sports performance. Thus, physical trainers of different sports could learn some strategies to enhance the sports performance of their athletes. Finally, considering that cycling is one the most practiced sports around the world, two chapters are prepared to bring both the amateur and professional practioners towards novel sport perspectives. Therefore, one chapter is based on leisure cycling and women’s participation in Scotland, and another chapter is developed to improve the saffle height configuration of cyclists to achieve better performance