About the Authors

Maha Sellami

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

Wissem Dhahbi

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

Lawrence D. Hayes

Affiliation Active Ageing Research Group, Department of Medical and Sport Sciences, University of Cumbria, Bowerham Road, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Johnny Padulo

sportcinetic@gmail.com

Affiliations Tunisian Research Laboratory “Sport Performance Optimization” National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports, Tunis, Tunisia, University eCampus, Novedrate, Italy, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Split, Split, Croatia

Fatma Rhibi

Affiliation Movement, Sport, Health and Sciences Laboratory (M2S), University of Rennes 2, Rennes, France

Hanen Djemail

Affiliation Military Hospital of Instruction of Tunis, Department of Endocrinology, Tunis, Tunisia

Anis Chaouachi

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MS. Data curation: MS HD AC. Formal analysis: WD FR. Funding acquisition: MS. Investigation: MS HD AC. Methodology: MS AC. Project administration: MS AC. Resources: MS HD. Software: MS WD HD. Supervision: MS AC. Validation: MS WD LDH JP FR HD AC. Visualization: MS WD LDH JP FR HD AC. Writing – original draft: MS LDH. Writing – review & editing: MS WD LDH JP FR HD AC.