Work leads to winning in sports. Sports science is irreversibly changing how the work is done in sports. Trainers train differently. Coaches coach differently. The measures for athlete health and performance won’t ever again be the same.
Disruptive technologies are the primary cause for the changes to how athletes and sports people work.
A Review of In-Body Biotelemetry Devices: Implantables, Ingestibles, and Injectables (IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering)
The Case for Human Intelligence (The Hardball Times, Will Carroll)
What’s in a game? A systems approach to enhancing performance analysis in football (PLOS One; Scott McLean et al.)
Harvard forum explores technology’s role in athletics (Boston Herald)
At Illinois Tech, data analytics play big part in basketball team’s success (Chicago Tribune, Shannon Ryan)
The Future NBA Training Room: Where Health Doesn’t Limit Success (ORRECO, Dr Andrew Barr)
Wearable Devices for Sports (IEEE PULSE)
Utah athletics: Led by Ernie Rimer, Utes have embraced sports science as competitive edge (The Salt Lake Tribune, Kyle Goon)
Conversation #5 — Simon Jones, Head of Innovation, Team Sky (Medium, Cecelia Unlimited))
Behind Breaking2 (Nike News)
Lucy Rushton Q and A The role of analytics in the construction of Atlanta United FC (ESPN FC, Juan Figueira)
In search of super athletes: How Jose Bautista and MLB see technology changing baseball (Financial Post, Josh McConnell)
Changes to work do not necessarily lead directly to improvements in work. Progress is not inevitable but it comes with intelligence, effort and, sometimes, patience. One important dimension of work that should provide a yardstick for progress is the fuzzy line that separates hard work (a good thing) and overwork (a bad thing).
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on resting players: ‘There isn’t an easy solution to that problem’ (cleveland.com, Chris Fedor)
New study reveals how high-mileage running makes muscles and tendons more efficient (The Conversation, Jasper Verheul, Adam Clansey, Mark Lake)
Herm Schneider and the Immense Value of Health (FanGraphs Baseball, Travis Sawchik)
Meet the sweaty, gambling, barfing, bonding Indians race known as the Beep Drill (Yahoo Sports, Jeff Passan)
Caleb Swanigan’s journey to from overweight to dominant (SI.com, Luke Winn)
Spring Training’s Tommy John Trend Just Claimed MLB’s No. 1 Pitching Prospect (The Ringer, Ben Lindbergh)
Cubs Setting Out on the Tough Road to Repeat as Champs (The New York Times, Tyler Kepner)
DNP-Rest makes perfect sense for LeBron James (ESPN TrueHoop, Tom Haberstroh)
Rigors of the road can be disorienting for Lakers players (Los Angeles Times, Tania Gaguli)
Cavaliers’ LeBron James showing efficient side as minutes increase (ESPN, Cleveland Cavaliers Blog)
Another important work parameter that is changing rapidly is the nature of solo versus shared work. Collaboration has become more and more important as the silos keeping clinical, training, coaching and management in their own worlds disappear. Still, individual decision making is crucial for game success and for the self improvement that contributes to longer term team success.
Want to see my report, coach? (Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal, Martin Buchheit)
Petersen’s UW is the good kind of football factory (The News Tribune, John McGrath)
U.S. Soccer hires EPL sports science guru for youth development (Brian Straus)
NBA G-League to use Gatorade Sports Science Institute (SportTechie, Diamond Leung)
Phillies coach Matt Stairs teaches hitters (MLB.com, Todd Zolecki)
There are Two Types of Coaches. Which are You? (Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code blog)
Researchers join with Athletics to integrate technology, sports (University of Alabama, News)
The Loneliness of the Hockey Scout (The New York Times, Gare Joyce)
Natasha Hastings Is Proving Speed Still Matters in the NFL, No Matter Its Source (Bleacher Report, Mike Freeman)
Giants’ Mark Melancon: A Closer Who’s Open To Sports Science (CBS Sacramento, AP)
‘We don’t have a pyramid’: New Girls’ Academy director talks through her biggest challenges (FourFourTwo, Jeff Kassouf))
NFL Nutrition: What the Guys Are Learning (St. Vincent Sports Performance, The Defining Sports Performance Blog)
I Am an American Coach (The Players’ Tribune, Bob Bradley)
MLS and American soccer are paying the price for not retaining domestic talents (Howler, Jeb Brovsky)
Anson Dorrance on Girls DA vs. ECNL — and why the focus should be on the youngest ages (Soccer America, Mike Woitalla)
More things that I read and liked last week:
Here’s why U.S. women’s soccer stars are taking their talents to Europe (February 19, The Washington Post, Steven Goff)
Your Brain on Exercise (February 13, University of California-Santa Barbara, The UCSB Current)
Your brain is smarter than you: how it tells you when you made a mistake (February 13, Medium, The Spike, Mark Humphries)
Mets’ Big Five Are Healthy, and Looking to Stay That Way (February 13, The New York Times, James Wagner)