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Research on Health-Related Physical Fitness

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 1667

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Lovro Štefan

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1. Department of General and Applied Kinesiology, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
2. Faculty of Sports Studies, Masaryk University, 62 500 Brno, Czech Republic
3. Faculty of Science, Department of Recruitment and Examination (RECETOX), 62 500 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: physical fitness; children; adolescents; physical activity; sports participation; health; longitudinal analysis
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Dear Colleagues,

Physical fitness has been considered a powerful marker of health, with most research being conducted in children and adolescents. With the rapid increase of time spent in sedentary behaviors and lower levels of physical activity in the past two decades, it is necessary to establish a nationwide intervention from a younger age. By including health-related physical fitness in annual systematic examinations, health professionals and physical education teachers would be able to appropriately intervene towards both ‘talented’ and ‘risky’ groups of children and adolescents. Moreover, the level of physical fitness established at younger age tracks well to adulthood, which is associated with a lower incidence of specific- and all-cause mortality.

Since physical fitness impacts the quality of life and has a multidimensional influence on cardiovascular, metabolic, locomotor and mental health, research that helps to understand its effects throughout clinical and randomized controlled trials as well as longitudinal designs is of extreme importance for future interventions and special strategies. 

Dr. Lovro Štefan
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • physical performance
  • fitness tests
  • effects of physical fitness
  • diseases
  • youth
  • general population
  • older adults
  • standards

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The Three-Level Model of Factors Contributing to High-Intensity Intermittent Performance in Male Soccer Players
by Juraj Pecho, Zuzana Kováčiková, Ľuboslav Šiška, Martin Mikulič, Marcel Čurgali, Lovro Štefan and Erika Zemková
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(24), 16402; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416402 - 7 Dec 2022
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High-intensity intermittent performance in soccer is widely assessed using the yo-yo intermittent recovery level 2 test (YYIR2). This test is usually associated with aerobic–anaerobic performance. However, less is known about the direct or indirect contributions of abilities, including the anaerobic component. This study [...] Read more.
High-intensity intermittent performance in soccer is widely assessed using the yo-yo intermittent recovery level 2 test (YYIR2). This test is usually associated with aerobic–anaerobic performance. However, less is known about the direct or indirect contributions of abilities, including the anaerobic component. This study aims to propose a three-level model of factors contributing to YYIR2 performance, based on the investigation of relationships with aerobic endurance, repeated-sprint ability (RSA), and the linear and change-of-direction speed and power variables. Eighteen soccer players performed the YYIR2, with a 20-m shuttle run test (20mSR), an RSA test with change-of-direction, 5-m and 20-m sprints, and a 505 test, countermovement jump, squat jump, and drop jump. The results showed a significant relationship between the YYIR2 distance and the 20mSR distance (r = 0.721, p = 0.001), as well as with the RSA test mean time (r = −0.594, p = 0.009). In the second level, the 20mSR distance performance was not associated with any of the speed and power variables. However, the RSA test mean time correlated with the 5-m sprint (r = 0.587, p = 0.010), 20-m sprint (r = 0.702, p = 0.001), and 505 test (r = 0.585 p = 0.011) performance. In the third level, the 20-m sprint time was related to the squat jump (r = −0.577 p = 0.012) and countermovement jump (r = −0.768 p < 0.001) heights. In addition to aerobic endurance, this study highlights the importance of the anaerobic component in YYIR2 performance. More specifically, aerobic endurance (52%) and RSA (36%) are the main determinants of YYIR2 performance. Subsequently, the RSA performance is determined by the linear (34–49%) and change-of-direction speed (35%), while the explosive power of lower limbs contributes to sprinting performance (33–59%). Coaches should focus on the development of these abilities to improve the high-intensity intermittent performance of soccer players. Full article
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