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Sports science

Little League baseball game

Youth Baseball Study Reveals Metal Bats Still Give Players an Edge

A specific type of weight training can make muscles more flexible while also making them bigger and stronger. This training focuses on slowly lowering weights when muscles are stretched out.

Resistance Training May Reduce Muscle Stiffness While Boosting Strength

Sprint interval exercises can stimulate beneficial physiological and metabolic responses via the activation of muscles and increased oxygen uptake in tissues.

Study Unveils Optimal Sprint Interval Training Protocol for Enhanced Metabolic Benefits

An AI-generated image showing a basketball player shooting a ball, with a clock face superimposed on the background, symbolizing the connection between NBA performance and the body clock. The clock face could be divided into different time zones to represent the impact of travel on player performance.

How Time Zones Affect NBA Performance

Diffusion tensor imaging, an MRI technique, of the brain.

Soccer heading linked to measurable decline in brain function

Diagram of exogenous ketone process

Ketone supplements worsen performance in endurance athletes

A participant plays table tennis against graduate student Amanda Studnicki while having his brain imaged via an EEG cap. The experiment revealed big differences in how our brains respond to human and machine opponents during sports.

Table tennis brain teaser: Playing against robots makes our brains work harder

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