Performance, injury and the medicine of healthy bodies.
9 topics · 9 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
WHO Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour
World Health Organization · 2020
Recommends specific weekly minutes of activity by age group and states, for the first time, that any amount of activity is better than none,…
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Restoration of Muscle Power by Heavy-Resistance Exercises
Thomas L. DeLorme · 1945
Argues that progressively increasing resistance across sets, rather than many repetitions at a fixed light load, is what rebuilds strength in an…
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Coronary Heart-Disease and Physical Activity of Work
Jeremy N. Morris, J. A. Heady, P. A. B. Raffle, C. G. Roberts & J. W. Parks · 1953
Finds that London bus conductors, who walk and climb stairs all day, suffer less coronary heart disease than the drivers who sit beside them, the…
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9 works
World Health Organization
Recommends specific weekly minutes of activity by age group and states, for the first time, that any amount of activity is better than none, reversing earlier guidance that implied a minimum threshold was required to matter.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Thomas L. DeLorme
Argues that progressively increasing resistance across sets, rather than many repetitions at a fixed light load, is what rebuilds strength in an injured limb, founding the progressive-overload principle used in strength training since.
Torbjørn Soligard et al.
Shows a structured neuromuscular warm-up programme cuts injury rates substantially in a randomised trial, shifting injury prevention in sport from advice to a tested protocol.
link checked 17 Sept 2026D. Travis Thomas, Kelly Anne Erdman & Louise M. Burke
Sets out joint position on energy, macronutrient and hydration needs for athletes, arguing that performance nutrition should be individualised to sport, body size and training load rather than following one fixed formula.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Jeremy N. Morris, J. A. Heady, P. A. B. Raffle, C. G. Roberts & J. W. Parks
Finds that London bus conductors, who walk and climb stairs all day, suffer less coronary heart disease than the drivers who sit beside them, the observational study usually credited with founding the epidemiology linking physical activity to cardiovascular health.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Michael J. Joyner & Edward F. Coyle
Argues that elite endurance performance is set by the multiplication of three trainable factors — maximal oxygen uptake, the fraction of it sustainable, and running or cycling economy — rather than by any single limiting variable.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Romain Meeusen et al.
Distinguishes ordinary overreaching, which resolves with rest, from overtraining syndrome, which can take months to resolve, and sets out the markers that separate the two.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Clare L. Ardern et al.
Argues that returning an athlete to sport is a staged medical decision made against functional criteria, not a fixed timeline set at the moment of injury.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Paul McCrory et al.
Sets out the current international consensus on diagnosing and managing sport-related concussion, arguing for individualised recovery rather than a fixed return-to-play timeline.
link checked 17 Sept 2026