Notes From: Kitman Labs 2018 European Performance Summit
This Notes From article is brought to you by Jake Schuster (@CoolHandJakeGS). Jake is the Strength and Speed Coach for Florida State University Track and Field. Jake also hosts the Voyager Sport podcast, which you can find here and on iTunes. Kitman Labs (@KitmanLabs) hosted their 2018 European Performance Summit at Tobacco…
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…
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….
The Debate on the Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio
I think it is an exciting time in training load research and applied practice. There is evidence-based analysis of training load taking place in the professional sporting environment as well as being published in the literature. In this post I will be focusing on the calculation of the acute:chronic workload…
Speed Development for Team Sports Masterclass Series: Jonas Dodoo
By West Bromwich Albion FC, in collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University The second speaker of the evening was the internationally renowned sprint coach Jonas Dodoo (@EatSleepTrain_). Jonas is the Head Coach of Speed Works, a training programme run out of the Lee Valley Athletics Centre in London. He has…
Speed Development for Team Sports Masterclass Series: JB Morin
By West Bromwich Albion FC, in collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University JB Morin presented alongside Jonas Dodoo at the first of a two-part masterclass series entitled Speed Development for Team Sports. The event was organised and hosted by West Bromwich Albion FC of the English Premier League, in collaboration…
Interview: Head of Sports Science at Swansea City AFC - Jonny Northeast
With the new Premier League season soon to kick off we are delighted to bring you an interview with Head of Sports Science at Swansea City AFC, Jonny Northeast. According to public statistics on sites such as Premier Injuries and Physio Room (yes they are not perfect but they still…
Acute:Chronic Workloads and Rehabilitation: A Case Study
Last month I was invited to write a guest blog on Plinths and Platforms about load monitoring and rehabilitation. It included an overview of Banister’s Fitness-Fatigue concept, the acute:chronic workload ratio and how it can be incorporated into the Return to Play (RTP) decision. You can find that post HERE but…