Optimal recovery strategies are crucial measures to ensure high-level performance in athletes. In this context, short sleep breaks during the day, referred to as daytime napping, appear to be an effective means for enhancing performance. However, high-level evidence (e.g., systematic reviews, meta-analyses) on the methods and effects of daytime napping on physical fitness and/or sport-specific performance is currently limited...

Purpose To examine the acute effects of concurrent muscle power and sport-specific endurance exercises order on immunological stress responses, muscular-fitness, and rating-of-perceived-exertion (RPE) in highly trained youth male judo athletes. Methods Twenty male participants randomly performed two concurrent training (CT) sessions; power-endurance and endurance-power. Measures of immune response (e.g., white blood cells), mu...