Sports science and exercise constitute an interdisciplinary endeavour that applies principles from physiology, biomechanics, psychology, nutrition and data science to understand and optimise human ...

The competition to be crowned the fastest, strongest or most technically proficient sportsperson on the planet will once again reach its peak this summer when athletes descend on Tokyo for the Olympic ...

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (MSSE), ACSM's flagship monthly journal, is the leading multidisciplinary original research journal for members. Each issue features original investigations, ...

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In today’s competitive world, sports play an integral role in the development of our children, fostering teamwork, discipline and physical fitness. We often link sports and physical fitness. However, ...

The forces that cause sneakers to squeak also create mini-earthquakes (shoe-quakes, if you will) and tiny lightning bolts.

On April 19, 1966, Roberta Gibb became the first woman to (unofficially) finish the Boston marathon. Women were officially allowed to enter the race in 1971, and Boston medaled its first female winner ...

How do you observe multiple stampeding National Football League players? By using Zebra, the logistics company that was appointed last year as the US football league's official "on-field ...

In today’s sports, the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is small. Football is said to be “a game of inches.” In baseball a player has “less than the blink of an eye” to hit ...

You’ve seen the commercials by Gatorade, Nike and every other sports brand: An incredibly fit professional athlete connected to a bulky, high-tech breathing apparatus runs on a treadmill as ...

In the four years since the decolonisation debate took centre stage at South African universities, much of the focus has been on what decolonisation might look like in the humanities. But science ...