… To dive deeper, what does a complete day of your training and eating look like?
In season, my days are pretty routine. I try to wake up around 7:00 every morning and start my day with a healthy breakfast. My regular breakfast consists of a bowl of yogurt with blueberries and homemade granola. I like making my granola so there are no artificial sugars. I try to cut out as many added sugars in my diet as possible. After breakfast, I take time to sip my morning coffee, relax, and wake-up. About 9:00 to 9:30 I start warming up for my workout. Once I am ready, I go out and do whatever Jerry has prescribed for me and my team the Bowerman Babes. After going completing my workout, I eat a post-workout meal that is typically heavy on protein such as, a basic sandwich, or avocado toast with fried eggs. The rest of the day I usually lay low. If I have a second run, I go out about 5 or 6 hours after my first workout. In the evening, for dinner, I usually make something at home. I like to stick to whole foods and make everything from scratch. Because of this, I usually don’t take supplements throughout the day. The closest I take to a supplement is gummy vitamins. I take the gummies because they are more fun to eat. I also take calcium and vitamin D multivitamins, but that’s it. After dinner and some relaxing, I try to get to bed around 10:00.
… When HOF-level players like Carter get older, they tend to keep trying to play like a star as long as possible. Those who can adapt to their reduced skills are the ones who manage to hang on the longest, but great players’ careers usually end after a few seasons when they try to do a version of what they have always done, but it becomes clear that it doesn’t “work” anymore. (Either that, or they don’t have the endurance or durability to do it over the grind of a full season anymore.)
For instance, in 2015, Peyton Manning tried to be the same quarterback who had thrown for 55 touchdowns a few years before … but it just didn’t work. When that became clear, he retired after Denver won the Super Bowl (despite his poor passing season). He wasn’t going to willingly turn into a clipboard-holder for whoever replaced him as starter. Likewise, once it became clear that Wizards-era Michael Jordan was a shadow of the player he used to be, he walked away from the game. MJ wasn’t going to hang around long enough to be a role player at the end of Washington’s bench, mentoring Kwame Brown.
As part of its continued efforts to support player development, the U.S. Soccer High Performance Department will collaborate with six Development Academy clubs in Southern California to host its second bio-banding event from Jan. 11-12 at the Silverlakes Sports Complex in Norco, Calif.
Following the groundbreaking introduction of U.S. Soccer’s bio-banding initiative in 2018, this year’s event doubles the number of teams involved, including three Major League Soccer academy programs. Sixteen teams formed by biological age, eight for each gender, will compete in two 80-minute games following Development Academy standards.
With the U-20 January camp set to open this week, U.S. Soccer finally hired its new coach in former Colorado boss Anthony Hudson. ASN’s Brian Sciaretta looks at Hudson’s hire, the challenges the team faces in a U-20 schedule that is rushed, and Hudson’s first roster.
The purpose of the present cross-sectional study was to clarify the effects of sport expertise and shot results on the action anticipation of basketball players. Eighty-eight male subjects participated in this study, namely, 30 collegiate basketball players, 28 recreational basketball players and 30 non-athletes. Each participant performed a shot anticipation task in which he watched the shooting phase, rising phase, high point and falling phase of a free throw and predicted the fate of the ball. The results showed that the collegiate players and recreational players demonstrated higher accuracy than the non-athletes for the falling phase but not for the other temporal conditions. Analysis of the shot results demonstrated that for made shots, the collegiate players and recreational players provided more accurate predictions than the non-athletes. These results suggested that the experienced players required a sufficient amount of information to be able to make accurate judgements and demonstrated that the experts’ judgement bias for made shots was independent of the temporal condition. [full text]
ASICS takes its science out of the lab and showcases the technology behind their ground-breaking innovations at CES 2020 with the ASICS Energy Research Lab. This booth lifts the curtain on the work done by the world-renown researchers of the ASICS Institute of Sport Science (ISS), bringing their lab into the real world and demonstrating how technology can help us run further, faster and easier.
ASICS PRESENTS FIRST SMART SHOE PROTOTYPE
ASICS opened the booth with the announcement that it will be launching a range of smart shoes in close partnership with Japanese start-up and sensor technology pioneers no new folk studio Inc. (nnf). The unique partnership sees the fusion of nnf’s precise, multi-dimensional sensors with ISS’s deep knowledge and expertise in human movement, as ASICS continues to enrich sports experiences through digital technologies.
French digital health company Withings has unveiled its latest smartwatch dubbed ScanWatch, which will include an ECG and Sp02 sensor.
The watch comes with a PPG sensor, which will continuously monitor the user’s heart rate and alert users if there is an irregularity. If any issues are detected, the watch will prompt the user to take an ECG reading. Watch wearers can read the ECG on the screen of their watch or in the watch’s accompanying Health Mate app. The app can store the reading and any notes that go along with the reading.
PlayerMaker, an Israel owned football tech startup, has recently raised $10 million in a Series B led by Feng He Group. It has landed the mark for its smart sensors which get physically attached to players’ footwear.
The product is a small silicone strap which gets strapped to the side of soccer shoes and helps analyze player specific data via its state of art gyroscope and accelerometers. PlayerMaker provides coaching enhancement solutions for football academies. It analyses data and give coaches data regarding how many touches player has on a ball or the total distance travelled during a game.
If all goes according to plan, it won’t be long before the Blue Jays will be able to venture into the unknown.
As Toronto has continued to make strides to bolster its roster ahead of the upcoming season, an upgrade in technology across the Major Leagues has brought some added excitement to Rogers Centre.
In August, the installation of Hawk-Eye ball tracking began, a move marking the beginning of the transition from Trackman to the optical technology of the new system, one that looks to offer information on a larger scale and with more depth and options for usage than ever before. At first glance, some of the information provided from teams to players will just be a newer version of the same old ideas, but the excitement for the Blue Jays lies in the uncharted territory.
… The Pistons practice facility is one of the most recent examples of teams pouring investment into their training centers, which not only bring in potentially lucrative partnerships but also offer community benefits.
The complete move downtown was the vision of owner Tom Gores, with the new center bringing basketball and business operations under one roof. It also still provided player privacy while also being a significant community asset to the Detroit neighborhood it calls home. At 185,000 square feet, it’s the largest NBA practice facility and team headquarters.
Along with building what the Pistons believe to be an elite facility for the players and team employees, meticulously designing each piece from the ground up, the building also opened a 1,500-square-foot cafe and retail space with Plum Market and a 5,000-square-foot Blink Fitness facility. Henry Ford Health System also built a new, $37 million sports medicine center connected to the Pistons practice facility and headquarters.
The findings, in JAMA Neurology, suggest delays in seeking treatment can lead to unnecessarily longer recovery.
“Our study emphasizes the importance of seeking appropriate, specialized care early on,” says senior author Anthony Kontos, research director at the University of Pittsburgh’s Sports Concussion Program. “Delaying clinical care following a concussion leaves patients to deal with symptoms on their own and negates the positive effects of early and targeted interventions.”
I did some things right during my 13+ years as a high school and college coach, but I also did quite a few things wrong. One of the areas I had the most room for improvement was in how I handled most things related to what we now know as Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S, pronounced “reds”).
I went into coaching roughly 18 years ago, pretty well educated on the topic, for the time. But despite coming from a place of awareness, I still didn’t always voice my concerns about eating disorders and RED-S well. I understand why many coaches struggle with it; it’s not an easy topic, and nothing in my many hours of coaching education prepared me for it.
Having been a part of 10 different cross country and/or track & field teams as an athlete or coach, and having known people who were part of countless other programs, I know that eating disorder issues are widespread within collegiate teams. Here’s what I would do differently now, based on what I’ve learned:
… uring the festive period [Tim Waskett] gave an insight into his work through the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures. The main topic covered in the overall discussion was broadly about how mathematics plays a huge role in a number of different areas.
Waskett, though, was there for one reason alone: to give an insight into his work at Liverpool and how data science is becoming an increasingly important part of elite sport.