About the Authors

Asma Aloui

Contributed equally to this work with: Asma Aloui, Walid Briki

‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

Affiliations Research Laboratory “Sport Performance Optimization”, National Center of Medicine and Sciences in Sport, Tunis, Tunisia, High Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Gafsa, University of Gafsa, Gafsa, Tunisia

Walid Briki

Contributed equally to this work with: Asma Aloui, Walid Briki

briki.w@gmail.com

‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

Affiliation Qatar University, College of Arts and Sciences, Sport Science Program, Doha, Qatar

Hana Baklouti

Affiliation Research Laboratory “Sport Performance Optimization”, National Center of Medicine and Sciences in Sport, Tunis, Tunisia

Hamdi Chtourou

Affiliations Research Laboratory “Sport Performance Optimization”, National Center of Medicine and Sciences in Sport, Tunis, Tunisia, High Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Tarak Driss

Affiliation Laboratoire CeRSM (EA 2931), Equipe de Physiologie, Biomécanique et Imagerie du Mouvement, UFR STAPS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Nanterre, France

Anis Chaouachi

Affiliation Research Laboratory “Sport Performance Optimization”, National Center of Medicine and Sciences in Sport, Tunis, Tunisia

Karim Chamari

Affiliation Athlete Health and Performance Research Center, ASPETAR, Qatar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Qatar

Nizar Souissi

Affiliation Research Laboratory “Sport Performance Optimization”, National Center of Medicine and Sciences in Sport, Tunis, Tunisia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA WB HB HC TD AC KC NS. Performed the experiments: AA WB HB HC. Analyzed the data: AA WB HB HC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA WB HB HC TD AC KC NS. Wrote the paper: AA WB TD.