China Institute of Sport Science

Exercise adaptation and proactive health: an information-theoretic framework based on load entropy

Abstract Exercise is among the most powerful stimuli for promoting health, yet exercise science still prescribes load largely through fixed, population-derived intensity zones that overlook how individuals perceive and adapt to training stimuli. This review develops Proactive Hea...

It's like Panem et Circense: Evolving Life Themes and Constructing a Continuous Sense of Self in The Transition Out of Elite Sport.

Several studies have shown that athletic retirement can lead athletes to experience identity disruption, or in narrative terms, to 'narrative wreckage'. However, less is known about processes that support adaptive changes in athletes' narrative identities. This study uses Career...

Anthropometric PHV-prediction models versus skeletal age in elite Chinese U12–U13 male soccer players: a cross-sectional study

Assessing biological maturity in youth soccer helps reduce maturity-related selection bias. Anthropometric peak height velocity (PHV) prediction models provide non-invasive, repeatable tools for maturity monitoring, but their performance relative to skeletal-age (SA) indicators r...

Acute effects of dynamic stretching combined with different blood flow restriction pressures on explosive performance in healthy young men

Objective This study aimed to investigate the acute effects of dynamic stretching (DS) combined with different blood flow restriction (BFR) pressures on explosive performance in healthy young males, and to examine whether these effects differed across estimated arterial occlusion...