Elite Athletes and COVID-19 Lockdown: Future Health Concerns for an Entire Sector

In this editorial, we focused our attention on elite athletes during the COVID-19 lockdown. A high level of physical fitness is required by elite athletes irrespective of the specific type of sport. Generally speaking, elite athletes avoid long periods of rest during and at the end of the competitiv...

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Autores principales: Paoli, Antonio, Musumeci, Giuseppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7739347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33467246
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jfmk5020030
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description In this editorial, we focused our attention on elite athletes during the COVID-19 lockdown. A high level of physical fitness is required by elite athletes irrespective of the specific type of sport. Generally speaking, elite athletes avoid long periods of rest during and at the end of the competitive season. Normally, elite athletes stop training or reduce training volume and intensity for a period that ranges from two weeks to a maximum of four weeks.
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spelling pubmed-77393472021-01-13 Elite Athletes and COVID-19 Lockdown: Future Health Concerns for an Entire Sector Paoli, Antonio Musumeci, Giuseppe J Funct Morphol Kinesiol Editorial In this editorial, we focused our attention on elite athletes during the COVID-19 lockdown. A high level of physical fitness is required by elite athletes irrespective of the specific type of sport. Generally speaking, elite athletes avoid long periods of rest during and at the end of the competitive season. Normally, elite athletes stop training or reduce training volume and intensity for a period that ranges from two weeks to a maximum of four weeks. MDPI 2020-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7739347/ /pubmed/33467246 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jfmk5020030 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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