Akern promotes sport and is involved in social sustainability
Akern® has always been a scientific partner of many elite and amateur sports teams. It is known and described in literature, that assessment and Improvement in the body composition of athletes though a individualized nutritional and training schedule, impacts psitively on their performance.
Akern®‘s role as the Official Sponsor of Libertas Livorno 1947 Basketball Team (National Championship, Serie B), which will go under the name Akern® Livorno, was announced today in Livorno.
Therefore, starting from the 2023-2024 sports season, Akern® will support the team of nutritionists, athletic trainers and sports physicians in monitoring the body composition of athletes to individualize the nutrition and supplementation plans as well as the training program of individual players in order to improve their sports performance.
Akern® goes further steps ahead. In addition to research projects aimed at offering body composition monitoring solutions and injury prevention for sports populations, even with unconventional anthropometric standards (average height of this sportsman is 2 meters), the company also becomes active in social sustainability, granting annual scholarships, within the Libertas Academy, to support promising young athletes in hardship condition, to continue in their education and sports career.
An additional source of great pride, within this same project, Akern® will allocate funds to purchase general equipment needed by the athletes of the TDS (Toscana Disabili Sport) company, a national B series wheelchair basketball team.
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