About the Authors

Alberto Mendez-Villanueva

amendezvillanueva@yahoo.com

Affiliations Football Performance & Science Department, ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence, Doha, Qatar, School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Johann Edge

† Deceased.

Affiliation School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Rob Suriano

Affiliation School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Peter Hamer

Affiliations School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, School of Physiotherapy, The University of Notre Dame (Australia), Perth, Australia

David Bishop

Affiliations School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), School of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMV PH DB. Performed the experiments: AMV JE. Analyzed the data: AMV JE RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JE. Wrote the paper: AMV JE DB.