There is risk management. And there is guessing. Teams with injured players do one or the other, and it is easy to tell which tactic teams choose. Teams that manage risk are much more likely to hold players out of games. Teams that guess are more likely to let them play. In the NBA, Indiana and […]
Read More →Archive for November, 2014
Technology to help talent development in sports
Yael Averbuch makes a valuable point in her recent essay in The New York Times: You decide how good you will be. Pia Sundhage, former coach of the United States women’s national team, once said, “Do not let a coach decide how good you will be.” Young athletes might be on the verge of having nearly […]
Read More →Last Week in Applied Sports Science, 11/16-11/22
All of the discussion about talent development with young athletes makes it easy to overlook the assessments made on the remaining talent in older athletes. For example, if you asked Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, he’ll tell you that he’s got lots of miles left in his tank. Age-related decline is not the only […]
Read More →Out of chaos, improvement
Six weeks ago the sports world was full of optimism. Major sports were in playoffs (MLB), in training (NBA, NHL), in early-season (Premier League, NFL) or in the case of USMNT, beginning a new World Cup cycle. Since that time, lots of teams have seen their master plans implode, their best players get hurt and […]
Read More →Last Week in Applied Sports Science, 11/9-11/15
Like many things, science is collaboration, and Applied Sports Science is no different. American sports science is likely to be unique from the way it is practiced in the rest of the world, mostly because athlete game schedules are so severe. The games are demanding in all of the major U.S. sports, and the schedules […]
Read More →The Inaugural Georgia Tech WCC Forum
Georgia Tech launched the new Wearable Computing Center, a research hub for inter-disciplinary wearables research and applications, this past June and the group held its first event yesterday, November 11, the WCC Forum. The vast range of computing research and applications can sometimes make it difficult for likeminded people, whether in industry, academia or elsewhere, to […]
Read More →Last Week in Applied Sports Science, 11/2-11/8
Sometimes you hear about strength coaches or sports clinicians getting creative and plying their trade in places far away from the field, the gym, the weight room or the training room, repurposing locations like hotel ballrooms or airport lounges to meet their needs. The ability to McGyver a workout or a therapy session or even […]
Read More →Bad Thursday Basketball, Brought to You by Science
The closest thing to a reliable pattern in the long NBA schedule is Thursday, the day of the week that most teams won’t play on. That is because the schedule is usually limited to just 2 (sometimes 3) games. The limited schedule helps bring a national audience and attention to the televised games on TNT. Last night […]
Read More →Accountability and Applied Sports Science
No professional likes to have her or his competence challenged, but there are always going to be collaborators that are better than others. Applied Sports Science depends on successfully integrating athletic training and sport coaching with clinical and technical disciplines. Failure can be measured in two ways: losses and injuries, and the two often go together. […]
Read More →Last Week in Applied Sports Science, 10/26-11/1
The path to peak performance is something that changes from person to person, and for each person, from year to year. Developing young athletic talent further complicates the issue. Asking for too much too soon from teenagers can lead to injury or burnout that diminishes what they will accomplish in adult athletic careers, should they even […]
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