The three-time Olympian talks about the pain plaguing him in 2018, his recovery from surgery, and whether he’ll take a shot at the American record in Chicago.
… [Michael] Irvin sees a Harper-like complement to Cooper on the horizon for 2019.
“Let me tell you something — out of all the people that we’ll talk about this preseason, I love what I see out of Michael Gallup,” Irvin told Yahoo Sports outside the Cowboys’ practice facility earlier this month. “I think he’ll be the guy who surprises everybody this year.”
… After spending his rookie season on the sidelines, Butt was ready to steal a spot atop the tight end depth chart and showed promise. Through three games, Butt had eight receptions on 13 targets for 85 yards. But a torn ACL following Week 3’s matchup with the Ravens would sideline him for the rest of the season, his third in a little over four years.
… Thomas is hopeful his season with the Denver Nuggets and a full summer of work will become a pathway back into an NBA rotation, a full-time resumption of a career sidetracked by hip surgery.
“Nobody knew what to expect with me coming off hip surgery last year, and two summers of rehab,” Thomas told ESPN. “Now I can go back to being a gym rat this summer, work on my game again and build my body back up — my muscle mass, my leg strength — all like I had going into the 2017 season.”
… “When you play this type of championship, with three or four days between games, you look to recover the players, let them rest and work in doses in training,” [Tata] Martino said after the 7-0 win over Cuba.
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But with a squad that has been plagued by injury concerns before and during the tournament, Martino is managing the group more than he lets on. For example, the Mexico manager didn’t bring a player to the news conference in Pasadena ahead of Mexico’s opener against Cuba, insisting that the travel would’ve involved a trip of up to three hours from the team hotel in Manhattan Beach, sources told ESPN FC.
In fact, no player has yet accompanied Martino at a news conference, perhaps because the squad hasn’t trained in the stadium the day ahead of any game, instead doing so earlier at an alternate venue and then resting up the night before.
… Matt Fitzgerald’s 2014 book about Seiler’s research, 80/20 Running, focuses on the idea of doing 80 percent of your running at an easy pace and 20 percent at a higher intensity. But that leaves an unanswered question about that middle zone, which corresponds to what are often called threshold or tempo workouts. Seiler’s research suggests you should avoid the middle zone, but there are some notable examples of athletes, like Paula Radcliffe, who view threshold running as a crucial key to success.
A new study in the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, from a research group led by Phillip Bellinger of Griffith University in Australia, suggests a possible reason for confusion about the middle zone: it depends, in part, on how you measure it.
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between running economy (RE) and sagittal, frontal, and transverse plane kinematic parameters in long-distance runners. A secondary purpose was to identify the kinematic predictors of RE during running at the lowest RE value, representing an individual’s most efficient running intensity. Twenty recreational long-distance runners ran 3 submaximal stages on a treadmill (65, 75, and 85% of velocity at maximum oxygen consumption). Respiratory data were collected using a portable gas analysis system. Kinematics were gathered using passive retroreflective markers and 8 high-resolution infrared cameras to collect the respective trajectories. Hip, knee, and ankle angles at foot strike and stance phase, as well as spatio-temporal parameters were calculated during each gait cycle. Knee flexion/extension range of motion (ROM), knee ab/adduction ROM, and hip ab/adduction ROM during the stance phase of the gait cycle showed positive moderate to large correlations with RE (r ± 90% confidence intervals = 0.51 ± 0.29; 0.49 ± 0.30; 0.53 ± 0.28, respectively). Knee and hip ab/adduction ROMs during the stance phase are predictors of RE, accounting for 44% of RE variance. Therefore, sagittal and frontal plane kinematics affect RE-inducing alterations in running performance. Coaches, athletic trainers, and anyone involved in running training prescription should consider a relationship between these parameters to ensure optimal technique and, consequently, to improve RE in recreational long-distance runners.
International Society of Posture & Gait Research, Dr Nidhi Seethapathi from
Even without external perturbations such as pushes or uneven terrain, noise-like imperfections in biological signals continuously perturb animals when they move. In this paper, we inquire how humans run without falling down in the presence of such intrinsic perturbations. We know that such intrinsic perturbations manifest as step-to-step variability and that this variability serves as a metric to quantify stability of movement. However, we understand little about the relationship between this step-to-step variability and motor control. Moreover, human running is most commonly modeled as a spring-and-mass or its variants, which are pertinent for understanding the role of passive actuation in running but don’t explain how deviations from the average motion are corrected. In this work, we explain how humans run without falling down in the presence of intrinsic noise-like perturbations with the help of experiments and investigate the role of active control in stable running in simulation.
Two weeks ago, I released a video called “Load vs Capacity”. The ideas were not mine, but they were presented in a way that could be understood by patients. The video was well received on social media. So well received, in fact, that I did not come across any counter arguments, and I find that highly unusual in the current social media environment. While I’m happy that it was so widely accepted, I also enjoy debates. Since I didn’t come across one comment that challenged the ideas in the video, I would like to take that opportunity here. In this blog, I’ll write about why I made the video, and then talk about the good and the debatable points of Load vs Capacity.
Chill the Pimm’s, bring on the strawberries — the start of summer is when the All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club stages its flagship Wimbledon championship.
For the past few years it has undergone something of a digital revolution. From artificial intelligence to analysing match footage, to the prospect of watching games in virtual reality, we look at the tech that’s transforming SW19.
This application was done using the Unity Plugin for the Movesense sensor. The code running on the sensor is based on the jump_meter application that can be downloaded. [video, 1:02]
Vicon announces Blue Trident, a lightweight wearable sensor capable of capturing the highest g data possible, and the focal point of a new inertial ecosystem to drive the future of sports, biomechanics and research. Using the new sensor, anyone from athletes in the field to researchers in the lab can record performance data and process it through one of three software platforms: Vicon Capture.U, the free iOS mobile app to deliver real-time data review and analysis, overlaid on video; IMU Step, the lower limb load monitoring tool to aid return-to-running and reduce reinjury risk; and Vicon’s Nexus 2.10 software, to integrate inertial data into optical mocap.
Sports medicine’s collaborative and holistic approach to treatment improves recovery times and rehabilitation, which can lead to better services for the general public
Nutrition plays a major role and has a great impact on all aspects of our lives. It is even more important when we are talking about recovery post-exercise: nutrition speeds up a return to full form for the next training session or match and improves performance.
Recovery is based on the four Rs: rehydration, energy recharge, muscle tissue repair and immune system regeneration.
… Many have said this over the last five to seven years but it has become even more evident at this World Cup. The world is catching up to the USA (if it hasn’t already). Spain showed that when they pushed the USWNT all the way to the final whistle in their Round of 16 match up and while other confederations are lagging behind at the moment, UEFA is quickly gaining momentum and is looking to dethrone the USA’s No. 1 status.
The U.S. have always had the depth to compete with every team in the world, no matter what decade they have played in due to the sheer numbers of women and young girls who play the sport in the United States of America. That, and better funding, has always given the USWNT a leg up on the competition but this World Cup has shown that many teams are just another step in development away from switching dominance of the women’s game from the U.S. to Europe.