Harry Kane has told Roy Hodgson he will represent England in the European Under-21 Championships in June. Kane’s club, Tottenham Hotspur, are concerned about their striker overplaying but Hodgson dismissed all “burnout” talk.
This aspect is more serious than “over-reaching” and is more commonly referred to as “burnout” of the kind which occurs after weeks and sometimes months of overtraining. It is where tiredness tips towards exhaustion and is caused by the cumulative effects of continuous training. It is what Jenkins (1998) refers to as a “neuroendocrine disorder”.
According to Mackinnon (2000), at any given time, 7-20% of athletes across many sports, exhibit symptoms of overtraining syndrome.
If there’s one thing football isn’t known for, it’s patience.
While 319 days is the average time a Championship manager gets in charge of a club, the lads down at Blackpool’s youth academy have their eyes on the much longer term.
It’s been a hugely successful spell for the youth set-up, with four players breaking through into the first team this season alone.
… there’s another Valdes kicking around at the Camp Nou these days while the original is patiently waiting his chance to resume an otherwise stellar career at Old Trafford. This one’s name is Joaquin, not Victor. And the saves he’s charged with making aren’t related to the ball, they are saving FC Barcelona (or at least their coach) from errors of mood, psychology and mentality.
… Over the next half hour, I completed 10 exercises J. Craig Flowers believes are a new way for coaches to get a leg up on the competition.
It’s the best way for them to, as the company’s slogan says, “Win the mental game.”
Flowers is the man in the video, a retired Army colonel and the executive vice president of APTUS Discovery, a company formed in 2009. Their assessments–one for football and one that’s universal and can be used for other sports, the military, education or the corporate world–lift the veil for coaches on an important attribute that too often goes overlooked: How a player learns.
… Huff got away from football for a little while at the start of the offseason. He went on a cruise with his wife and gave himself a short time to process and evaluate 2014 before flipping it forward. But it wasn’t long before he was back at it. He returned to his hometown of Houston to work with his cousin, Rischad Whitfield, who goes by the nickname “The Footwork King” and has a growing clientele list that includes Le’Veon Bell, Antonio Brown, Mike Wallace and Emmanuel Sanders.
I reached out to retired U.S. Navy SEAL Commander and New York Times bestselling author of Unbeatable Mind Mark Divine to share his big four principles for developing mental toughness. These skills are both training practices that will make you a better athlete and performance tools you can use on race day.
Thinking. It’s so simple. We do it all the time, about everything – and yet so many of us are so bad at it.
As a personal trainer, I regularly work with clients not only on their physical goals, but also on making their minds more efficient. There are five basic building blocks of efficient thinking that we can all benefit from, particularly when it comes to making the most of our physical selves …
Over the last few days Garmin has enabled automatic sleep tracking on all of their sleep capable activity tracker devices. They did so not as part of any firmware update that you have to install, but rather on their backend platform that automatically recognizes when you went to sleep and how many hours of sleep you got.
Athletes have long sought to gain a competitive edge by using performance-enhancing drugs, and suppliers are perpetually trying to stay ahead of detection methods. But the future of doping in sports could be dependent on medical advancements that are currently being made with less nefarious intentions. Genetic doping — or the introduction of synthetic DNA into a person’s body with the aim of improving performance in some way — could revolutionize the way athletes cheat, and it may be coming soon.
Under Armour isn’t going to stop caring that you have shoes and shirts emblazoned with its logo. But with tech, the Tide Point-based company is taking a different approach.
“We want to be able to provide our athletes, our users, with an incredible experience no matter what device they choose to plug in,” Under Armour Senior Manager of Strategy and Operations for Connected Fitness Sara Hester said Tuesday at a wearables-focused panel organized by the Maryland/Israel Development Center.
The „Return to Play“-RTP 2015 conference is a cooperation between the Swiss Sports Physiotherapy Association (SSPA), the International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy ( IFSPT) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM).
The aim of the conference is to present the current evidence on RTP criteria and guidelines in different areas, where sports physiotherapy plays a major role in helping athletes to come back at highest level after injury or surgery.
… AR: Q3. What role does Analytics play in the integration of sports medicine into sports performance?
BM: A healthy team competes best. Sports medicine analytics can improve athlete health and prevent injury and illness. The integration across sport science and medicine disciplines leads to helping all invested partners to better understand business practices, clinical care and performance trends which will ultimately create a foundation for measurable resource and clinical applications to better drive decisions directed at health and performance.
For example, if the data science team can identify trends in a team’s blood work and report these finding back to the sport medicine, nutrition and physiology departments, an integrated action plan can be made to address the effect of nutrition and physiology on the athlete’s response to training.
Running economy (RE) is considered an important physiological measure for endurance athletes, especially distance runners. This review considers 1) how RE is defined and measured and 2) physiological and biomechanical factors that determine or influence RE. It is difficult to accurately ascertain what is good, average, and poor RE between athletes and studies due to variation in protocols, gas-analysis systems, and data averaging techniques. However, representative RE values for different caliber of male and female runners can be identified from existing literature with mostly clear delineations in oxygen uptake across a range of speeds in moderately and highly trained and elite runners. Despite being simple to measure and acceptably reliable, it is evident that RE is a complex, multifactorial concept that reflects the integrated composite of a variety of metabolic, cardiorespiratory, biomechanical and neuromuscular characteristics that are unique to the individual. Metabolic efficiency refers to the utilization of available energy to facilitate optimal performance, whereas cardiopulmonary efficiency refers to a reduced work output for the processes related to oxygen transport and utilization. Biomechanical and neuromuscular characteristics refer to the interaction between the neural and musculoskeletal systems and their ability to convert power output into translocation and therefore performance. Of the numerous metabolic, cardiopulmonary, biomechanical and neuromuscular characteristics contributing to RE, many of these are able to adapt through training or other interventions resulting in improved RE.
Stafford Murray is head of performance analysis at the English Institute of Sport, where he has worked since its inception – thanks to government lottery funding and consequential financial investment in sport science – in 2002.
Having played squash at a junior international level, coached at a senior national level, and with sport science degrees from Cardiff where he was inspired by “the godfather of sport analysis” Professor Mike Hughes, Murray was perhaps destined to land and excel in his current role. Whilst he concedes that the nature of his work means he’s doomed to remain largely an unsung hero, he counters: “We don’t want or deserve the glory, it’s the athletes that have to deal with the pressure and pain.”
So what exactly does Murray do? In a nutshell; a lot of people management.