2023, Vol. 10, Issue 5, Part A

Nowadays Sports is evolving as an industry worldwide. We know the performance relies on various multiple factors including internal and few external factors. Environment is also an intricate factor to understand well in order to avoid negative impact on performance level of athletes. However, these factors can affect performance in both ways, sometimes negatively or positively. Therefore, athletes or coaches need to be aware about and make an approach to tackle these conditions. Daniel Tang, K.H. (2021), Athletic performance is affected by both internal (athletic ability) and external elements presented in the environment. Altitude, Temperature, Wind, Quality of Air and Rain are common examples of environmental elements of the physical environment that have some influence on sports performance. These conditions are sometimes neglected by coaches during training sessions, due to this ignorance athletes are not able to perform their best in a competitive environment. In this study we are emphasizing on understanding the various environmental factors and their influences i.e., of Temperature, Altitude, Air quality, Wind, and Rain. Here we are trying to provide a general idea or approach which can be followed by the coaches to reduce the impact of different environmental factors which can negatively impact the performance of athletes. Although; Environmental factors are beyond the limits of humans to tackle them completely even then evolution has been observed in the field of sports in terms of its form, technology and the various aspects. Hence there is a need for better understanding of environmental factors for final execution and performance of athletes. We found that few interventions are there to tackle these situations: body takes about 2 weeks to adapt to 2300 m (7545 ft). Thereafter, each 610-m (2000 ft) altitude increase requires an additional week for full adaptation up to 4572 m (15,000 ft). If high altitude is not available, intermediate altitudes can be used for training. Even some major strategies i.e., LHTL, LHTH, LLTH, can be used for adopting the elevation physiological conditions. Few artificial systems have been used to adopt the challenging environmental conditions with reference to world class competitions.