SynthesisSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2017
Chronotype, Physical Activity, and Sport Performance: A Systematic Review.
Synthesis in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04632615 (Sleep Behaviour in Athletes During Home Confinement Due to the Covid-19 Outbreak), which is not on this map. Cited by 95 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Sleep Behaviour in Athletes During Home Confinement Due to the Covid-19 Outbreak
Who cites it
95 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Sleep Management and Performance in Offshore Sailing Regattas: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of evening exercise on anthropometric indices, metabolic profiles, and sleep health: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2025Pooled it
- Influence of time-of-day on neuromuscular performance in team sport athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Pooled it
- Best Time of Day for Strength and Endurance Training to Improve Health and Performance? A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2023Pooled it
- Association between Chronotype, Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Motor Learning in Response to Different Experimental Pain Models Among Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Diurnal Variation in Maximum Endurance and Maximum Strength Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2022Pooled it
- Is Balance Control Affected by Sleep Deprivation? A Systematic Review of the Impact of Sleep on the Control of Balance.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Deconstructing athletes' sleep: A systematic review of the influence of age, sex, athletic expertise, sport type, and season on sleep characteristics.Journal of sport and health science · 2021Pooled it
- Chronotype-aligned exercise timing in middle-aged adults at cardiometabolic risk: a randomised controlled trial.Open heart · 2026Trial
- Strategic daytime napping enhances agility and lowers perceived exertion but does not improve fatigue resistance in adolescent soccer players.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Influence of acute dietary nitrate supplementation timing on nitrate metabolism, central and peripheral blood pressure and exercise tolerance in young men.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Trial
- Time of Day and Chronotype-Dependent Synchrony Effects Exercise-Induced Reduction in Migraine Load: A Pilot Cross-Over Randomized Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Daytime fluctuations of endurance performance in young soccer players: a randomized cross-over trial.BMC research notes · 2022Trial
- The effects of a real-life lifestyle program on physical activity and objective and subjective sleep in adults aged 55+ years.BMC public health · 2022Trial
- From GPT-4 to Expert-Endorsed Athlete Guidance: A Delphi Consensus on Sleep and Jet Lag.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- The Influence of Time of Day on Critical Swimming Speed in Chronotype-Screened (Neither-Type) Well-Trained Male Swimmers.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Diurnal variation in physical activity and musculoskeletal injury risk across sex and habitual exercise timing among physically active students.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Influence of Chronotype on Cycling Performance in Simulated 20-km Time Trials-A Pilot Study.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Time-of-Day-Specific High-Intensity Interval Training (Chrono-HIIT) in Chinese College Students with Low Physical Activity Levels: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Feasibility Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
35 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
backgroundMany variables related to sport have been shown to have circadian rhythms. Chronotype is the expression of circadian rhythmicity in an individual, and three categories of chronotype are defined: morning types (M-types), evening types (E-types), and neither types (N-types). M-types show earlier peaks of several psychophysiological variables during the day than E-types. The effect of chronotype on athletic performance has not been extensively investigated.
objectiveThe objective of the present review was to study the effect of chronotype on athletic performance and the psychophysiological responses to physical activity.
methodsThe present review adheres to the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) reporting guidelines. We searched PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science for scientific papers using the keywords "chronotype", "circadian typology", "morningness", and "eveningness" in combination with each of the words "sport", "performance", and "athletic." Relevant reference lists were inspected. We limited the search results to peer-reviewed papers published in English from 1985 to 2015.
resultsTen papers met our inclusion criteria. Rating of perceived exertion and fatigue scores in relation to athletic performances are influenced by chronotype: M-types perceived less effort when performing a submaximal physical task in the morning than did N- and E-types. In addition, M-types generally showed better athletic performances, as measured by race times, in the morning than did N- and E-types. Other results concerning chronotype effect on physiological responses to physical activity were not always consistent: heterogeneous samples and different kinds of physical activity could partially explain these discrepancies.
conclusionsSports trainers and coaches should take into account the influence of both the time of day and chronotype effect when scheduling training sessions into specific time periods.
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