Editorial: Training load in sport: current challenges and future perspectives

Luís Branquinho; Pedro Forte; Elias de França; Ricardo Ferraz; José Eduardo Teixeira; Ronaldo Thomatieli-Santos

doi:10.3389/fspor.2025.1574500

Editorial: Training load in sport: current challenges and future perspectives

Front Sports Act Living. 2025 Feb 21:7:1574500. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1574500. eCollection 2025.

Authors

Luís Branquinho^{1

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4}, Pedro Forte^{4

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7}, Elias de França^{8

9}, Ricardo Ferraz^{3

10}, José Eduardo Teixeira^{3

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13}, Ronaldo Thomatieli-Santos^{9

14}

Affiliations

¹ Biosciences Higher School of Elvas, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal.
² Life Quality Research Center (LQRC-CIEQV), Santarém, Portugal.
³ Research Center in Sports, Health and Human Development, Covilhã, Portugal.
⁴ CI-ISCE, Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro (ISCE Douro), Penafiel, Portugal.
⁵ Sports Department, Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of the Douro, Penafiel, Portugal.
⁶ LiveWell-Research Centre for Active Living and Wellbeing, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal.
⁷ Department of Sports Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal.
⁸ Interdisciplinar Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Santos, Brazil.
⁹ Human Movement Laboratory, São Judas University, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁰ Sport Sciences Department, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.
¹¹ Department of Sports, Polytechnic of Guarda, Guarda, Portugal.
¹² Department of Sports Sciences, Polytechnic of Cávado and Ave, Guimarães, Portugal.
¹³ SPRINT-Sport Physical Activity and Health Research & Inovation Center, Guarda, Portugal.
¹⁴ Graduate Program in Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

No abstract available

Keywords: athletic performance; injury prevention; recovery strategies; strength and power development; training load.

Publication types

Editorial