Football is a sport that demands peak physical fitness and endurance. Players are required to cover large distances on the field, maintain high levels of energy, and have the strength to perform ...

High school football players may not be just big and strong; a lot of them are overweight or obese, an Iowa study shows. The study comes from Kelly Laurson, MS, and Joey Eisenmann, PhD, of Iowa ...

Costello believes football has an “outdated fixation” with body composition (how much of a player’s body is fat, bone and muscle mass) as a performance metric.