Extremsport

Abstract

Some extreme sportsmen are also extremely famous, as e.g. Reinhold Messner, Alexander Huber or Felix Baumgartner. Do olympic or worldcup sportsmen perform extreme sports as well? Or does extreme sports implies (death) risk? And what about ultra-endurance sports? The interested reader dives into a world of extremes. Training, preparation, surveillance and physiological and mental abilities contribute to the safety of the athlete. Age and gender effects have been studied systematically in extreme endurance sports during the past years and first studies started to characterize psychological and physiological characteristic of extreme sportsmen. Man is capable of extreme performance, intellectually but also physiologically.