We are students at Escola Secundária de Mem Martins, in Sintra, and throught this year we have been working on the project Science Behind Sports. 

  All this research was made for a subject that was created in our school, called CLT (Ciências, Linguas e Tecnologias/Science Languages and Tecnologies) where we used the project methodology in order to come up with some solutions for a problem that we wanted to help solve. For that we decided to study muscles and then get deeper into athletics (muscle hypertrophy, vertical jump, speed,...).

   So we chose to study this theme because we are athletes (basketball players) and we wanted to know how we could develop our body the right way, without injuries. You know that in every sport, the physical ability of the players, plays a huge role in their performance, wether its jumping high, being fast, or being heavy and strong, it is important to have some physical potential to influence your game.

  During 2020/21 school year, we did some oral presentations to our class and we made a scientific poster about our project that sums up what we have been doing throught the year, and we will provide you those.