It took a successful complex hip resurfacing operation to return Andy Murray to a pain-free existence with the possibility of restoring his tennis career.
Interestingly, it was only with that occurrence the three-time Grand Slam champion — and former world No. 1 — understood he didn’t need to play tennis to enjoy personal fulfillment.
“A few months after the operation when my pain was gone, I wasn’t playing tennis still, but I was really, really the happiest I have been in a very long time,” Murray said at the Shanghai Masters on Sunday. “I realized then that the priority for me was my health and being pain-free.
“I have to stop coming back to get the ball every time. I think for my game, it’s good,” he said. “There are times I’m at the high quadrant and if I get that rebound, I can try to beat my man down the floor and get cheap baskets. I think that’s where it helps me.”
That being said, the Jazz aren’t counting on Exum being available right away to begin this preseason. While general manager Dennis Lindsey said that Exum is “moving very well,” he has yet to pass some of the “testing with balances and imbalances” that are part of the Jazz’s return-to-play protocol. The idea is that the Jazz want to make sure that Exum’s legs are at equal strength, so that during play, he doesn’t rely on one leg more than another. That might make another injury more likely.
To perform at a high level in the NFL Opens a New Window. , players need to do more than bench press and squat their way to success. They also have to possess elite mobility to keep their bodies limber and healthy, and they must have a plan for nutrition and recovery Opens a New Window. that allows them to quickly bounce back after a brutal 60 minutes on the gridiron. For this, teams seek assistance from fitness professionals off the field in order to help these superstar athletes excel beyond just the X’s and O’s. Here, we talk to two experts in completely different roles to get a feel for the behind-the-scenes work it takes to build an NFL player Opens a New Window. .
… Endurance sports are all about oxygen. Training increases both the amount of oxygen your body can use and the amount of power you can produce with that oxygen. Putting those two factors together gives you your Maximal Aerobic Power (MAP), and underneath that value is your ability to produce sustainable power (your FTP).
Though steady-state riding is largely dependent on your FTP, your FTP is largely dependent on your MAP. The physiological relationship between MAP and FTP is well-documented, with your MAP acting like a ceiling that holds your FTP down. Virtually all of the successful elite triathletes that I’ve coached have a MAP power that is more than 20% above their FTP. Want to increase your FTP? First you have to raise your MAP, and that means incorporating specific high-intensity interval sessions into your training (Nine Hammers, anyone?).
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… We examined more than 1000 early-career scientists in the U.S. who had narrowly won or just missed winning a key grant, and found that, in the longer run, the near-miss researchers ended up producing higher-impact work, on average, than their narrow-win peers. This finding challenges conventional wisdom about the relative value of winning and losing, with important, broad implications for both innovators and the institutions that support them.
It’s about people communicating. The primary focus of EMRs should be about communication. … You look outside healthcare and you have tools like Slack, which is “a real-time collaboration app and platform.” But that’s just a 15 or 20 billion dollar way of saying “glorified chat client with document sharing.” There’s a reason they’ve been really successful: simplifying communication matters.
Ten years ago, when he started Driveline Baseball as a hobby to help young players learn more about baseball, Kyle Boddy held true a few absolute principles. The sport was rapidly evolving toward a harder-throwing game, and he would teach people to unlock the full potential of their arm. The democratization offered by the internet would serve as a perfect conduit to spread his gospel to the masses. And most of all, professional baseball’s development system was broken, filled with blissfully ignorant executives too hubristic to understand where the game was headed.
Boddy’s first and second dicta proved undeniably true — and set the stage for a transformation of the third that Tuesday finally ensnared him. After years of consulting for teams as Driveline grew from a simple blog into the game’s foremost training facility and think tank, Boddy did what he once considered unthinkable: join a professional organization.
Companies are selling reports about a wide range of physical, cognitive, and behavioral traits to consumers based on their genomic data, but such tests have a number of limitations.
The stopwatch is only one way to measure the gains athletes are making at the world championships this year.
About 200 runners volunteered to swallow red-and-white capsules that contain data transmitters. It’s part of an IAAF research project on the effects of heat and body-core temperatures. They couldn’t have picked a better time or place — in Doha, where the temperatures reach 100 degrees (38 Celsius) every day, and less than a year removed from the Olympics in Tokyo, where conditions are expected to be every bit as stifling.
Electrical engineers at Duke University have devised a fully print-in-place technique for electronics that is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces including paper and human skin. The advance could enable technologies such as high-adhesion, embedded electronic tattoos and bandages tricked out with patient-specific biosensors.
The techniques are described in a series of papers published online July 9 in the journal Nanoscale and on October 3 in the journal ACS Nano.
“When people hear the term ‘printed electronics,’ the expectation is that a person loads a substrate and the designs for an electronic circuit into a printer and, some reasonable time later, removes a fully functional electronic circuit,” said Aaron Franklin, the James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke.
How we prepare food matters to us, surprisingly deeply, it turns out.
Scientists have recently discovered that different diets — say, high-fat versus low-fat, or plant-based versus animal-based — can rapidly and reproducibly alter the composition and activity of the gut microbiome, where differences in the composition and activity can affect everything from metabolism to immunity to behavior.
“What we didn’t know was whether the form of the food also mattered,” said Rachel Carmody, assistant professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. And the answer is apparently yes.
You’ve likely noticed the growing trend of plant-based eating—including everything from vegetarian diets to going completely vegan. But if building muscle is one of your health goals, you might be wondering how plant-based foods will affect your gains. Are plant protein and animal protein equal, or is one really better than the other? This guide will help you get a handle on the differences between the two.
… “It’s different because usually when I’m looking at kick returns, I’m thinking about strategy and field position and stuff like that,” Brian Mitchell said. “Now, you just know teams are going to get the ball on the 25-yard line.”
Mitchell has a special perspective on the topic. In 14 NFL seasons with three NFC East teams — Washington, Philadelphia, and the New York Giants — he set NFL records with 14,014 yards in kickoff returns and 4,999 in punt returns. His 13 touchdowns on special teams are second in league history to Devin Hester.
There’s an attacker in England who, after two seasons of utter dominance, has fallen down to Earth with good but not great production. His team’s record remains surprisingly strong, but underneath the hood, their expected goals record belies a team not actually at the station they expected to be, lucky to be above their rivals in the table.
I’m talking, of course, about Mo Salah and Liverpool. It’s hard to complain about a team that has taken 21 of 21 points in the league and a guy who has three non-penalty goals and three assists in seven league matches, but the statistical record is flashing some warning signs.
This is gooood stuff!! Congrats Sam. Also loved the Cruyff’s anti-stats quote. Even in that he was innovating (who else talked about ‘computer stats’ in the 80’s?)