On Episode 24 of “Tips with Trev”, Cy Young Award winner and All-Star pitcher, Trevor Bauer, gets into the topic of post-throwing recovery. There are a lot of ways to improve recovery, but one of his favorite tools to use is Marc Pro. [video, 8:17]
His father, Mychal Thompson, believes Klay’s basketball lifespan could run until he’s 40 years old.
“I said, if you really want to, you can play till you’re 40 years of age, but the key to that is you have to take care of your body, as you go into your 30s,” Mychal said, recounting to NBC Sports Bay Area a conversation he had with Klay.
Klay turned 31 in February. He tore his left ACL in the 2019 NBA Finals. He tore his right Achilles tendon in a 2020 workout only weeks before the Warriors began this season’s training camp.
… “I don’t get tired. I don’t feel tired. I get my sleep; I get my rest,” James said. “I have a lot of energy. I don’t get tired and my mindset never gets to the point where it’s like this is a long road trip or I’m exhausted or I’m tired.
“I don’t even think about that. When we have our games, I’m ready to go and when we’re not playing, I have an opportunity to rest and get my body back right and my mind refreshed.”
The 2-time gold medalist is back in school pursuing a degree in engineering, and recently volunteered to help kids for Intel’s National Engineers Week.
Basketball’s best prospect in decades couldn’t be derailed by a devastating knee injury or a pandemic. The next step in Fudd’s ascension: teaming with Paige Bueckers at UConn.
… It would be patently unfair to give just a single reason to explain why the US is producing better talent faster than ever before in history. There is no single explanation for how and why things changed. I can think of lots of individual factors: the growing popularity of soccer in the country, the increased development of soccer fields, immigration patterns, ease of access to European soccer, MLS expansion, increased interest from European institutions, the development of grass-roots American soccer culture… I could go on, but actually talking about each of these would require their own article to do them justice, so how about we just talk (briefly) about one particular element.
… One of Sitake’s first priorities, when he took the BYU job after working with Kyle Whittingham at Utah and Oregon State, was emphasizing size and strength.
He knew if BYU was to compete against the likes of USC, Stanford, Michigan State, Arizona, Arizona State and Washington, the Cougars would need to transition from the sleek, extra mobile, spread blockers that Robert Anae tried to utilize from his days at Texas Tech, to big, strong, lengthy, powerful bodies that could dish as well as take.
And that goes for the defensive line, too.
In the past two seasons, Sitake got more of that on BYU’s lines. But he knew it was a work in progress, that standards had to be set, players challenged, the weak get strong. He knew his big body players had to build a foundation, from the legs and core up to the arms and chest.
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The mental health challenges and stress players endured in 2020 reminded OL Reign CEO Bill Predmore that clubs often take too narrow a view when preparing players to be “ready” for a game. That’s why, ahead of the 2021 season, OL Reign brought on new staff members to provide a holistic approach to player wellness — one that focuses on an individual’s physical, emotional, and psychological health.
Former Reign player and now Dr. Mariah Bullock joins the team as a sports psychologist and mental health counselor. She’ll work closely with the director of rehabilitation, Dr. Nicole Surdyka, who joined the club in December 2020 and is passionate about giving Reign players all the tools they need to do their jobs successfully.
Social identity shapes information processing at every stage, from how we initial sample the world and allocate our attention to how we interpret the information we have sampled.
Subjective monitoring of rate of perceived exertion is common practice in many sports. Typically, the information is used to understand the training load and at times modify forthcoming sessions. Identifying the relationship between the athlete and coach’s interpretation of training would likely further benefit understanding load management. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the relationship between coaches’ rating of intended exertion (RIE) and/or rating of observed exertion (ROE) and athletes’ reported rating of perceived exertion (RPE). Methods
The review was undertaken in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. We conducted a search of Medline, Google Scholar, Science Direct, SPORTDiscus, and Web of Science databases. We assessed the correlation between coach-reported RIE and/or ROE and RPE. Assessment for risk of bias was undertaken using the Quality Appraisal for Reliability Studies (QAREL) checklist. Inclusion criteria were (1) male and/or female individuals, (2) individual and/or team sport active participants, and (3) original research article published in the English language. Results
Data from 19 articles were found to meet the eligibility criteria. A random effect meta-analysis based on 11 studies demonstrated a positive association of player vs. coach rating of RIE (r = 0.62 [95% CI 0.5 to 0.7], p < 0.001). The pooled correlation from 7 studies of player vs. coach rating on ROE was r = 0.64 95% CI (0.5 to 0.7), p < 0.001.
Conclusion
There was a moderate to high association between coach RIE and/or ROE and athlete-reported RPE and this association seems to be influenced by many factors. The suggestions we present in this review are based on imploring practitioners to consider a multi-modal approach and the implications of monitoring when using RPE. [full text]
The Atlantic Coast Conference announced today that it will equip student-athletes, coaches and Tier 1 personnel at the ACC men’s and women’s basketball tournaments with a KINEXON SafeTag contact tracing device. The devices, which have been utilized by all 15 ACC member institutions throughout the regular season, are a component of KINEXON SafeZone, a cutting-edge digital solution to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
This season, all ACC men’s and women’s basketball student-athletes, coaches, and staff wore the devices while inside team facilities. Student-athletes also had the SafeTags sewn into jerseys or tucked into socks for in-game usage. The SafeTags measure the proximity between users to provide school medical officials accurate contact tracing data when an individual tests positive for the virus. To date, the technology has identified several high-risk close contacts of a positive case within the ACC. These high-risk contacts were quarantined and later tested positive, thus limiting the spread of the virus.
… The 45-year-old Galwegian, who has spent much of the last few years living and working in Los Angeles where the company has a performance centre, has taken his time building Orreco. While other companies might focus on scaling as quickly as they can, [Brian] Moore has quietly beavered away compiling evidence that shows how Orreco’s solutions can help elite athletes and professional teams hit peak performance while spending less time on the sidelines due to injuries or exhaustion.
Now, Moore is looking to make the solutions he’s developed – essentially a blend of cutting-edge sports science and data-driven AI technologies – available to a wider audience of sporting enthusiasts.
Sadly, this story reports that at least one player is still not healthy enough to return to the field. He’s improved but not well enough. He has left the program.
… One big difference from previous years is that only one team medical staff will have indirect access to perform the virtual exam. Previously, every team had a chance to do its own hands-on evaluations.
These new procedures will also impact re-checks. In the past, players coming off surgery or with active medical issues would be invited back to Indianapolis six weeks later, in early April, to have a medical re-check. That number was usually about 50, and only the head team doctor and head athletic trainer attended.
This year, about 150 athletes will be invited during the “re-check” period. The 50 athletes with current medical issues requiring in-person exams plus the projected Day 1 and 2 draft picks. About 100 players projected to be drafted in the first three rounds will join the typical medical re-checks. This way, teams get at least some direct medical evaluation of the players expected to go in the first three rounds.
Friday at the Women’s Big Ten Swimming & Diving Championship meet saw a rare application of the “honest effort” rule. In the women’s 100 backstroke, Miriam Guevara of Northwestern was disqualified in the final heat for “failure to show an honest effort.”
Under the “Ethical Behavior of Coaches and Student-Athletes” in the NCAA Swimming & Diving rulebook is a clause that states:
“Coaches are to ensure student-athletes put forth an honest effort in all competitions. Failure to show an honest effort could be considered an act of improper conduct (Rule 2-5-6) and result in disqualification and/or disciplinary action by the referee or meet committee.”
In prelims Guevara qualified fourth in the 100 back with a time of 53.10. She also swam the 200 butterfly that session qualifying second in 1:56.12. At finals she swam a 1:02.44 in the backstroke and in effect, sacrificing the backstroke so she could focus on the 200 butterfly. This is where an official took umbrage.