Is There a Tug of War Between Injury Risk and Performance?
The majority of the recent literature in load monitoring focuses on the association between training load measures and injury risk. However, injury risk is not the only outcome measure we are interested in… performance matters too! However, the understanding of the training-performance relationship in team sports is currently not as…
… But Does Injury Availability Affect your Team’s Physical Outputs?
Last month we explored the evidence base supporting the notion that athlete availability reduces your team’s chance of success. That post included a number of sources that demonstrated an association between injury rates and success. It may seem obvious but it is important to have the evidence to back up this…
Does Injury Availability Affect your Team’s Chance of Success?
The 2017/18 Premier League season has officially kicked off and so, therefore, have the injury statistic leagues. It has long been suggested that injury rates and player availability affect a team’s chance of success. This is not just the speculation of pundits or those down the pub; we have evidence…
UKSCA Applied Case Study Award 2017
Congratulations to Chris Towlson and colleagues on winning the Best Applied Case Study at the UKSCA 2017 Conference. Keep an eye out for the article in full in the published literature in the near future. In the meantime Chris has kindly provided Sports Discovery with an overview of the study. …
Preseason 2017: Behind the Scenes
Here are some interesting insights of the training, testing and monitoring going on across preseason shared via social media over the past month. 🤔 The lads are back for pre-season testing! But aside from a lot of hard work, what exactly does…
Notes From: Seattle Sounders FC Sports Science Seminar 2017
Seeing as though we are asking people to share their notes from events and conferences, it is only fair that I do so too! Last month the Seattle Sounders hosted their annual Sports Science seminar, which I’ve been lucky enough to attend two years running. Below I will share a…
Notes From: Football Medical Association (FMA) Conference 2017
Hard to Break: Building Resilience in Modern Day Athletes FMA Conference Programme in full here. Conference and awards pictures here. Session 1 – Five steps to a winning mindset. Key Note Presentation: Damian Hughes @LiquidThinker The brilliant Damian Hughes opened proceedings showcasing his five steps to a winning mindset….
Notes From: Southampton FC Sports Science Undergraduate Summit
Southampton Football Club hosted their inaugural Sports Science Undergraduate Summit last week at their Staplewood Campus. Hosted by Jonathan Woodhouse (Academy Data Scientist) alongside the entire sports science department, the primary aim of the day was to provide current University undergraduates with an insight into the practicalities of delivering applied…
Sports Science for Athletes Insight
Recently I was asked by the team at Athletes Insight if I would be interested in writing an ‘Expert Contributor’ post for their training community. CEO Rich Stead and I were course-mates in our Undergraduate degrees in Sports Science at Loughborough University. I’m really excited (and jealous) that he has…
Exploring the Science Behind Resting Athletes
It seems not a week or even a day goes by without another sport story in the media on rest. In football, Jose Mourinho has bemoaned his team’s fixture congestion over Christmas and recently with the Europa League and domestic scheduling. Perhaps with a strong case considering Leicester City won…