Arkaitz Castañeda is passionate about sports, both as a practitioner and as a researcher. He studied Physical Education at the UPV, specializing in high performance sports. Later on, while he was extending his knowledge by carrying out a variety of training courses, he was in charge of the physical preparation of several athletes.
Later on, he completed his PhD, and currently, in addition to continuing researching and having many articles published in high impact journals, he is also a Deusto University teacher, as well as giving lessons in different courses.