The network is led by Professor Peter Krustrup, Department of Sports and Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, and Professor Bente Kiens, Department of Sports and Nutrition, University of Copenhagen.
The “National Network for Performance, Recovery and Dietary Optimization in Interval Sports”, abbreviated as PRoKIT, aims to map performance, recovery and dietary optimization for female and male elite athletes, especially in handball, football, ice hockey and badminton.
The network consists of a strong team of researchers from the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University, including Peter Krustrup, Bente Kiens, Magni Mohr, Per Aagaard, Morten B Randers, Kristian Overgaard and Lars Nybo.
Over a 5-year period, we will conduct a series of studies of European and World Championships with physical-technical-tactical measurements in combination with invasive studies of performance, metabolic impacts, fatigue, training adaptations and recovery during training and repeated matches, as well as studies with acute as well as long-term dietary manipulations.
We use a range of methodological approaches, where physical-technical-tactical performance analyses carried out with high-tech tracking methods are combined with invasive physiological measurements under realistic match and training scenarios as well as sophisticated measurements of muscle activity and muscle function.
Furthermore, we will focus on determining the protein requirement in connection with interval and endurance training. It is also well known that much of the guidance around the right diet composition for athletes is based on research conducted on men, while it has not been investigated whether the same recommendations apply to female athletes.
In this network, we will conduct nutritional physiological studies, where the focus is on dietary optimization for both female and male athletes. It is the network’s realistic goal that we, in collaboration with Team Denmark and the special associations, can further develop tracking, testing, nutrition and training methods within handball, ice hockey, football and badminton, with the aim of creating new knowledge, to share knowledge with associations, teams and athletes, contribute to a well-founded training culture and finally an improved performance within interval sports in Denmark.
The “National Network for Performance, Recovery and Dietary Optimization in Interval Sports”, abbreviated as PRoKIT, aims to map performance, recovery and dietary optimization for female and male elite athletes, especially in handball, football, ice hockey and badminton.
The network consists of a strong team of researchers from the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University, including Peter Krustrup, Bente Kiens, Magni Mohr, Per Aagaard, Morten B Randers, Kristian Overgaard and Lars Nybo.
Over a 5-year period, we will conduct a series of studies of European and World Championships with physical-technical-tactical measurements in combination with invasive studies of performance, metabolic impacts, fatigue, training adaptations and recovery during training and repeated matches, as well as studies with acute as well as long-term dietary manipulations.
We use a range of methodological approaches, where physical-technical-tactical performance analyses carried out with high-tech tracking methods are combined with invasive physiological measurements under realistic match and training scenarios as well as sophisticated measurements of muscle activity and muscle function.
Furthermore, we will focus on determining the protein requirement in connection with interval and endurance training. It is also well known that much of the guidance around the right diet composition for athletes is based on research conducted on men, while it has not been investigated whether the same recommendations apply to female athletes.
In this network, we will conduct nutritional physiological studies, where the focus is on dietary optimization for both female and male athletes. It is the network’s realistic goal that we, in collaboration with Team Denmark and the special associations, can further develop tracking, testing, nutrition and training methods within handball, ice hockey, football and badminton, with the aim of creating new knowledge, to share knowledge with associations, teams and athletes, contribute to a well-founded training culture and finally an improved performance within interval sports in Denmark.