Chelsea are considering a personal fitness regime for Diego Costa as the striker’s departure from the Premier League champions edges closer.
Costa’s career at Stamford Bridge is over and head coach Antonio Conte has already told the Spain international he will not be permitted to train with Chelsea’s first team at their Cobham base.
He is yet to return for pre-season training but with Atletico Madrid and AC Milan hopeful of signing him this summer, Chelsea are prepared to send the 28-year-old a special training programme until a deal is agreed.
… “He has a great scope that he fills for us,” coach Pete Carroll said of what Prosise can do compared to the Seahawks’ other backs, Eddie Lacy and Thomas Rawls, cannot. “He can come out of the backfield and he can run routes as a receiver. And he looked really good running the ball behind the line of scrimmage.”
But the overriding question with Prosise is not ability. It’s durability.
“Early in this offseason, I focused on just getting my body right, building that core right for this year,” Prosise said before he and his teammates took Wednesday off from training-camp practices.
This year, the end of summer came sooner than usual for most of college football. As one might expect, not everyone is happy about that.
If they haven’t already begun training, most programs will be taking the field for training camp Monday, before the calendar flips to August. The early start comes as an unintended consequence of new NCAA rules banning teams from holding two-a-day practice sessions in the name of student-athlete welfare. The number of practices each team is allowed to hold stayed steady at 29, but after being stripped of the power to squeeze a couple of them into one day, most schools have extended the usual four-week training camps to five this season.
“I don’t like it,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said. “… You have to bring them in earlier to get in all of your practices. It’s five solid weeks now from when they report to when they play. That’s a long time. The NFL at least breaks things up with the preseason games, but five weeks without playing a game, that’s a grind. You’ve got to be really careful how you structure it and make sure you keep it fresh.”
Rene Meulensteen was part of Sir Alex Ferguson’s first-team staff at Manchester United for six years. During this time they won four Premier League titles, the Champions League and Club World Cup. Meulensteen told TGG about the attributes that made the Scot such a great leader.
The Conversation, Marnee McKay and Joshua Burns from
… Across all measures of physical performance, there was one consistent finding. There was no statistical difference in the capabilities of girls and boys until high-school age (commonly age 12).
Let’s use standing long jump (also known as a broad jump test) as an example. This provides a measure of your legs’ explosive power. It needs minimal equipment and the results compare well with the type of information you get from strength testing using expensive equipment. It’s also one of the tests would-be American NFL (National Football League) players take to impress talent scouts.
Even as Bayern Munich players prepare for Tuesday’s International Champions Cup opener against Chelsea, the club remain busy with off-the-pitch engagements.
The German giants paid a visit to their official intelligence and enterprise software partner SAP on Tuesday (July 25), at the company’s South-east Asia headquarters in Mapletree Business City.
In an hour-long session, Bayern’s director of media, digital and communications Stefan Mennerich and SAP’s global general manager of sports & entertainment Stefan Wagner shared how Germany’s most successful football club leverages on technology to provide an unforgettable match-day experience.
… In order to help [consumers] make smarter decisions about what [they’re] putting in [their] body, there’s a new app in town that leverages artificial intelligence. Meet Bitesnap from Bite AI, which uses machine learning to determine what food items are in your latest food photo, and subsequently tells you how many calories you’re consuming.
Not only does Bitesnap identify the foot item on your plate, it also does some pretty impressive work as far as figuring out how much of it is actually there. And it’ll [present] more than just caloric data…[including] a pie chart of [the user’s] carbohydrate, protein, and fat consumption. [The app can also] set (or adjust)…targets to help [someone] achieve [their] fitness goals.
mHealth apps are used by both providers and patients to improve communication, promote health, and foster better self-management behaviors.
Apps accessible from smartphones, tablets, and other devices have the potential to expand access to care and offer enhanced monitoring tools to patients. However, even though apps are intended to promote health behavior changes and improve the health of patients, most mHealth applications do not deliver as they should.
In order to effectively influence health behaviors such as self-management, awareness, and goal setting, mHealth apps need to include four major features. Applications that receive high marks on ease-of-use, positive reinforcement, social support and interactivity, and provider support with assisted intervention are more likely to produce positive behavioral changes and clinical improvements.
DuPont Intexar smart clothing technology transforms ordinary fabrics into active, connected, intelligent garments that provide critical biometric data including heart rate, breathing rate, form awareness, and muscle tension. Intexar offers stretch and comfort and is easily integrated into garments to make smart clothing.
“Every athlete – from professional to everyday – can benefit from smart clothing to help boost their performance; but it has to look good and feel good,” said Michael Burrows, global business manager, DuPont Advanced Materials. “Intexar is a game-changing technology and will truly move the needle in making smart garments as comfortable as regular fitness clothing.”
Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports from
Sport injuries present a significant health problem at an individual and public health level, and counteract the many inherent health benefits related to regular physical activity and sport participation. Consequently, the prevention of sport injuries is important to maintain and increase an active lifestyle. Actual prevention of sport injuries in real-world sport settings depends on a large-scale adoption and correct use of evidence-based preventive measures by the target population. Numerous studies and systematic reviews have evaluated the efficacy and effectiveness of preventive interventions on the risk of sport injuries, and as such provided a wide evidence base for implementation efforts. However, available data on sport injuries substantiate a suboptimal use of effective preventive measures in practice, and effective implementation is still considered an important challenge. Next to a wide evidence base on effective injury preventive intervention, knowledge is required on intervention strategies to reach the target population and to affect their preventive behaviour. A range of potentially relevant strategies should be considered, including education, contextual modifications, and rule and regulation changes. As such, the main objective of this thesis was to gain insight into the effectiveness of intervention strategies to translate and implement available evidence on sport injury prevention to a broad practical context, and consequently promote actual sport injury prevention.
The research described in this thesis is presented in two parts. First, systematic reviews are presented evaluating available evidence on what works in sport injury prevention (Set?). Second, effect and process evaluations of three interventions were included as Dutch examples about how different intervention strategies can contribute to effective implementation (Go!).
… Fosun’s money pays their salaries, of course; it is the lure of England, the prospect of the Premier League, that drew them here. “I wanted to play here,” Jota said in one of Molineux’s dressing rooms last weekend. “Everyone dreams of England, and the Premier League.”
But it is Mendes, 51, who has made it all possible, who delivered Neves, Jota and, of course, Espírito Santo, the first client he ever had, long before he was the superagent responsible for the careers of Cristiano Ronaldo and José Mourinho.
… Part of the reason for this is simple: More first-half stoppage time is played in the Premier League, with 2.9 minutes at the end of the first half on average, significantly ahead of the other leagues, which ranged between 1.4 and 2.0. However, this doesn’t entirely explain the significantly higher goal tally here, and that old catchphrase that “just before half-time is the best time to score” seems to be particularly well-observed in England.
Indeed, Premier League stoppage time for both halves averaged 7 minutes, 59 seconds last season, a considerably higher figure than anywhere else in Europe, which recorded between 5:16 and 6:35 in this respect.
The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), Christian Caple from
It’s still a little surreal, Pabail Sidhu says, that his career in basketball analytics has led him to a job with the defending NBA champions.
“There’s times when I catch myself – oh my gosh, what am I doing here? This is unreal,” he said. “Then you forget about it and go about it like, ‘I’m supposed to be here. I’m here to help.’”
After spending five seasons on the staff of coach Lorenzo Romar as the Washington Huskies’ director of basketball strategies, Sidhu began a new job in June with the Golden State Warriors, working under the title of director of basketball analytics and innovation.
… There are currently 22 women who work in recruiting at ACC and SEC schools Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Louisville, LSU, Miami, Mississippi State, NC State, North Carolina, Pitt, South Carolina, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest.
I focused on these two conferences due to the apparent frequency of women in both, compared to the rest of the Power 5 conferences at this time. I found five in the Big 12, one in the Big Ten, and four in the Pac-12 while reviewing staff listings earlier this summer. Women have recruiting jobs in conferences outside of the Power 5, too.