Francesco Cuzzolin

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia | UCAM · Centro de Investigación en Alto Rendimiento Deportivo

Player availability, defined as keeping players injury-free and ready to participate in competition, is extremely important in the current elite team sport scenarios, because it is related to team performance. In fact, individual player availability may be more important than each player being at their individual level of peak performance. However,...

Abstract: In the field of sports science, the recovery umbrella is a trending topic, and even more so in the world of elite sports. This is evidenced by the significant increase in scientific publications during the last 10 years as teams look to find a competitive edge. Recovery is recognized to be an integral component to assist athlete preparati...

In recent years, different companies have developed devices that estimate “running power”. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of running speed on aerobic and running powers measured using force plates and by different devices. The second objective is to evaluate the relationship between aerobic power and running powers measu...

Elite performance in team sports attracts the attention of the general public. In particular, the best players became incredibly skilled and physically powerful, which is a fact that potentiates the delivery of a product that is considered attractive, exciting, and competitive. Not surprisingly, this is a very valuable product from an economic and...

Abstract: Elite performance in team sports attracts the attention of the general public. In particular, the best players became incredibly skilled and physically powerful, which is a fact that potentiates the delivery of a product that is considered attractive, exciting, and competitive. Not surprisingly, this is a very valuable product from an eco...

Top performance in team sports attracts the attention from the general public. In particular, the best players became incredibly skilled and physically powerful, a fact that potentiates to deliver a product considered attractive, exciting and competitive. Not surprisingly, this is a very valuable product from an economic and social standpoint, thus...

Periodization for team sports is probably more an art than science. This topic has been widely researched in many other disciplines, trying to provide some effective models, but in a team sport like basketball, there are still so many variables that the coaching staff has to take under consideration to optimize performance. The ability to manage sc...

The main goal of a strength program, and especially at high-performance level, is to provide the optimal conditions to allow the players to achieve, maintain, or enhance the proper performance of functional movements significant for basketball.

In December of 2019, there was an outbreak of a severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by the Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) in China. The virus rapidly spread into the whole World causing an unprecedented pandemic and forcing governments to impose a global quarantine, entering an extreme unknown situation. The organizational consequences...

When exercising on a cardio equipment, oxygen (O2) consumption and caloric expenditure related to a given exercise intensity can be estimated by means of specific metabolic equations (ME). Aim of this study was to develop the ME of a new equipment. The new Technogym Elliptical Machine (TE) is an aerobic machine that has been developed to carry out...

High performance sport can be seen as the top end of sport development and encapsulates any athlete or team that competes at an international or national level (Sotiriadou and Bosscher, 2018). Particularly interesting and complex part of high-perforrmance sport are team sports. In team sports there are special rules of organization and communicatio...

Most of the information and data visualization studies have been conducted in contexts where human performance is related to safety and productivity (e.g., signal detection in air traffic control) or where user experience is connected to revenues (e.g., e-commerce websites page layout and pictorial representations). Nevertheless, the pervasive digi...

Sledge towing is a common training modality in many track and field disciplines and team sports (Monte et al. 2017; Morin et al. 2017). This training is usually performed outdoors or indoors in large spaces, with the consequent weather and space limitations respectively. Recently, a new treadmill (Skillrun™, Technogym) with the capability to perfor...

Biomechanical And Physiological Differences Between Two Rowing Ergometers Author Block: Silvano Zanuso 1 , Giuseppe Fedele 2 , Jonathan Folland, FACSM 3 , Matthew Black 4 , Simonetta Senni 2 , Horsham Esser Ethan 2 , Paolo Benvenuti 5 , Francesco Cuzzolin 6 . 1 University of Coventry, Coventry, Italy. 2 Technogym Scientific Dept, Cesena, Italy. 3 L...

The free throw (FT) is a fundamental basketball skill used frequently during a match. Most of actual play occurs at about 85% of maximum heart rate (HR). Metabolic intensity, through fatigue, may influence a technically skilled move as the FT is. Twenty-eight under 17 basketball players were studied while shooting FT is on a regular indoor basketba...