Tag: MDPI

The rationale for this Special Issue is to contribute to knowledge with a collection of papers on socio-cultural outcomes and impacts as effects of mega-events on host communities from a multidisciplinary perspective. We will explore the methodological and conceptual challenges such work poses, and showcase opportunities and efforts for mitigating the unsustainable aspects of mega-event policies and practices.

For this Special Issue, we seek theoretically and empirically sound examinations of sport, leisure, and sustainability. We conceptualize sustainability to consist of issues related to the environment, economics, and equity. 2020 has illuminated potentially unsustainable practices in sport and leisure. Flooding as a result of climate change, wild fires in the Western United States, and COVID-19.

«Sports» links several scientific disciplines in an integrated fashion, to address critical issues related to sport science and public health. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: EFFECT OF NEW ZEALAND BLACKCURRANT EXTRACT ON ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION-INDUCED FATIGUE AND RECOVERY: POTENTIAL MUSCLE-FIBER SPECIFIC EFFECTS by Mark E. T. Willems, Megan Bradley, Sam D. Blacker and Ian C. Perkins.

«Sports» links several scientific disciplines in an integrated fashion, to address critical issues related to sport science and public health. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: CHANGES IN BODY COMPOSITION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PERFORMANCE IN ELITE FEMALE TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES TRANSITIONING TO THE SENIOR DIVISION by Yuka Tsukahara, Suguru Torii, Fumihiro Yamasawa, Jun Iwamoto, Takanobu Otsuka, et al.

«Sports» links several scientific disciplines in an integrated fashion, to address critical issues related to sport science and public health. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: EFFECT OF TRAINING PHASE ON PHYSICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF MALE POWERLIFTERS by Daniel A. Hackett, Guy C. Wilson, Lachlan Mitchell, Marjan Mosalman Haghighi, Jillian L. Clarke, Yorgi Mavros, Helen O’Connor, Amanda D. Hagstrom, Gary J. Slater, Justin Keogh and Chris McLellan.

«Sports» links several scientific disciplines in an integrated fashion, to address critical issues related to sport science and public health. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: PHYSIOLOGICAL PREDICTORS OF PERFORMANCE ON THE CROSSFIT “MURPH” CHALLENGE by Ja’Deon D. Carreker and Gregory J. Grosicki.

«Sports» links several scientific disciplines in an integrated fashion, to address critical issues related to sport science and public health. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: BODY COMPOSITION AND PHYSICAL FITNESS PROFILES OF ELITE FEMALE JAPANESE WRESTLERS AGED <12 YEARS UNTIL >20 YEARS by Hiroshi Arakawa, Daichi Yamashita, Takuma Arimitsu, Takashi Kawano, Takahiro Wada and Seshito Shimizu.

«Sports» links several scientific disciplines in an integrated fashion, to address critical issues related to sport science and public health. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: LISTENING TO PREFERRED MUSIC IMPROVED RUNNING PERFORMANCE WITHOUT CHANGING THE PACING PATTERN DURING A 6 MINUTE RUN TEST WITH YOUNG MALE ADULTS by Nidhal Jebabli, Urs Granacher, Mohamed Amin Selmi, Badriya Al-Haddabi, David G. Behm, Anis Chaouachi and Radhouane Haj Sassi.

«Sports» links several scientific disciplines in an integrated fashion, to address critical issues related to sport science and public health. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: EFFECT OF TWO STRENGTH TRAINING MODELS ON MUSCLE POWER AND STRENGTH IN ELITE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PLAYERS by Martin Pacholek and Erika Zemková.

Health promotion can be understood in different ways in relation to sport, and this Special Issue aims to explore this relation in-depth. The objective is to better understand how the sport sector can act as a health-promoting setting. We consider sport in a broad sense, including both competitive and recreational sport, targeting all groups across the lifespan and socioeconomic gradient, including every-day and non-organized sport practice.