Shalom, Asaf and Gottlieb, Roni and Altarriba-Bartes, Albert and García, Francisco and Espasa-Labrador, Javier and Vilamitjana, Javier and Velarde-Sotres, Álvaro and Jukic, Igor and Cuzzolin, Francesco and Terrados, Nicolás and Miguel-Ortega, Álvaro and Mielgo-Ayuso, Juan and Brini, Seifeddine and Pernigoni, Marco and Conte, Daniele and Cos, Francesc and Alcaraz, Pedro and Sassi, Roberto and Viroux, Pat and Stojanovic, Marko and Alonso Pérez-Chao, Enrique and Ibáñez, Sergio and Sampaio, Jaime and Kocaoglu, Baris and Vaquera, Alejandro and Delextrat, Anne and Calleja-González, Julio UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, alvaro.velarde@uneatlantico.es, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED (2026) Micro-recovery dosing in elite sport: an initiative-taking, organization-wide recovery framework. Frontiers in Physiology, 17. ISSN 1664-042X
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Abstract
Recovery in elite professional sport is now widely understood as a multidimensional process spanning physiological, psychological, cognitive, and social domains, yet recovery models applied in professional clubs and sporting organisations have been slow to reflect this. Most remain reactive and athlete-centred, leaving the full complexity of competitive fatigue inadequately addressed and the equivalent recovery demands on coaching and performance staff entirely unrecognised. No structural framework currently places initiative-taking, calendar-embedded multidimensional recovery as a deliberate component of seasonal planning. Main body. We introduce micro-recovery dosing (MRD): proactively planned, pre-scheduled 36-hour multidimensional recovery periods embedded within the competitive season as a proposed starting point at five to eight instances per year, extending to all members of the high-performance organisation. Drawing on neuromuscular recovery kinetics, autonomic science, sleep architecture research, occupational recovery psychology, and complex systems theory, we construct a convergent theoretical rationale for the proposed parameters and distinguish MRD from related constructs. We present a role-differentiated implementation framework with supporting evidence and a discussion of emerging AI-driven monitoring tools. Conclusions. Taken together, the four-domain convergent rationale and the complex systems perspective provide a theoretically coherent basis for MRD’s proposed structure. We argue for a specific organisational transformation: the shift from recovery as an incidental gap between performance demands to an intentionally designed recovery architecture that encompasses athletes and staff alike. The article identifies the active ingredient problem as the central scientific challenge and sets out a structured empirical agenda.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | elite sport, micro-recovery dosing, periodization, psychological detachment, recovery science, staff well-being |
| Subjects: | Subjects > Physical Education and Sport |
| Divisions: | Europe University of Atlantic > Research > Articles and books |
| Depositing User: | Sr Bibliotecario |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2026 14:56 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2026 14:56 |
| URI: | https://repositorio.funiber.org/id/eprint/29908 |
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