**About the Editors**

### **Rafael Oliveira**

Rafael Franco Soares Oliveira is an adjunct professor at Escola Superior de Desporto de Rio Maior, Instituto Politecnico de Santar ´ em (Sport Sciences School of Rio Maior, Polytechnic Institute ´ of Santarem), an integrated member of the Life Quality Research Centre, and a collaborator of the Research Centre in Sport Sciences, Health Sciences, and Human Development. He earned his PhD in Sports Sciences at the University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal. His research activity has been ˜ focused on exercise physiology, testing, control, and prescription; load monitoring and quantification; strength and conditioning; and sports training methodology. Currently, he is the author of more than 100 published scientific articles (indexed in the *Journal of Citation Reports or Scientific Journal Ranking*) and about 20 books or book chapters.

Furthermore, in 2022 and 2023, he was awarded first place in research and development by the Polytechnic Institute of Santarem. He was also awarded an honorable mention as the researcher with the best quotation in scientific production in 2022 and first place as the researcher with the best quotation in scientific production in 2023 by the Life Quality Research Centre.

### **Jo ˜ao Paulo Brito**

Joao Paulo Moreira de Brito is a full professor at Escola Superior de Desporto de Rio Maior, ˜ Instituto Politecnico de Santar ´ em (Sport Sciences School of Rio Maior, Polytechnic Institute of ´ Santarem), an integrated member of the Life Quality Research Centre, and a collaborator of the Research Centre in Sport Sciences, Health Sciences, and Human Development. He earned his PhD in Sports Sciences at the University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain.

His research activity has been focused on the following: exercise physiology; physiological assessment of athletes from different sports; determination of the physical and physiological profiles of elite athletes; subjective and objective load monitoring and quantification; and strength training to improve performance in male and female athletes. Currently, he is the author of more than 80 published scientific articles in indexed journals and about 17 books or book chapters. Furthermore, he received several awards for achieving a good quotation in scientific production in recent years.
