Applied Sports Science newsletter – July 31, 2019

Applied Sports Science news articles, blog posts and research papers for July 31, 2019

 

Katie Ledecky rallies to win signature event after week of illness

NBC Sports, Olympic Talk, Beau Dure from

… “Just kind of relieved to end on a good note,” Ledecky said. “Not a good time, but I just gutted it out. It was a tough week for me physically, mentally, emotionally and all of it, but I had great support from my friends, family, coaches and medical staff. Never imagined I’d have this kind of week. I’m excited for the next year of work.”

 

Larry Fitzgerald: I’ve never seen a rookie QB come in like Kyler Murray

ProFootballTalk, Michael David Smith from

… “I’ve never seen a quarterback come in so quickly and be able to command an offense,” Fitzgerald said. “I mean, from Day 1, he’s out there checking the different plays, sliding the line, different protections, getting us in screens when blitzes are coming. His understanding of the offense is crazy. I mean, from Day One. I think that’s going to give us a great advantage, to play fast from the first preseason game all the way to the start of the regular season and giving him the keys to the car and letting him is going to be great for us.”

 

Orlando City focuses on youth development

US Soccer Players, Clemente Lisi from

… While FC Dallas has become the American model for the development and signing of youth players, Orlando City is inserting themselves into that conversation. They have already made a series of decisions that will ensure the team doesn’t miss out on the pipeline of talent developed in its region. Orlando City B, the team’s development academy which plays in the third-tier USL League One, trains with the MLS team at Osceola Heritage Park as of this season. This gives younger players plenty of experience with the pros. Orlando relaunched the USL team this season with the sole purpose of helping to develop players, believing in the league’s mantra #Path2Pro.

Orlando City has only been around for five seasons as an MLS team. In that time, they have signed five Homegrown Players. The 21-year-old Michel is the latest. The forward is what Orlando is seeking in future Homegrown talent, both for how he came up the ranks and how he is thriving in MLS. Born in Orlando, Michel played for the Orlando City U-18’s before spending three seasons at the University of Portland.

 

Bob Bradley finds coaching fun, and it’s helping LAFC stay focused on MLS Cup goal

ESPN FC, Noah Davis from

Bob Bradley does not give short answers. A response to a question about the quick success of his Los Angeles Football Club moves from the present, to his initial hiring in 2017, to a playoff loss last season before anchoring itself back in the present. His answer to whether he likes living in L.A. touches on family, being recognized by waitstaff in New Jersey, then traverses an ocean to Egypt where he coached the national team.

The answers are not long-winded; not exactly. They can meander, but they always return to a larger point. He’s a man with a specific worldview, and he wants the person asking the questions to understand things from his perspective, through eyes that have seen a lot of football (rarely, if ever, “soccer”) and a lot of life. If that requires 30 seconds or a minute or longer, fine. He’s engaging enough and thoughtful enough to command attention.

In Bradley’s world, things need to be explained and understood. Doing without knowing why is just as bad as not doing at all. Knowing why gives someone — a person or a player — the ability to react to situations or respond in a predictable way. Answers run long because getting to why takes time.

 

Soccer-Swedish coach aims to add new elements to Brazilian flair

Reuters from

Adding U.S. mental strength and Swedish organisation to Brazilian talent and flair is a promising recipe for future success, the new coach of the Brazil women’s team said on Tuesday.

Pia Sundhage, who has coached both the U.S. and her native Sweden, became the first foreigner to manage a Brazil national side when she signed a two-year contract earlier this week.

The 59-year old told reporters at an introductory news conference that her experience at international level, added to Brazil’s unrivalled natural talent, were a potentially rewarding mix.

 

Strength coaches carry a lot of weight in the Big Ten. Nebraska’s Zach Duval is no exception

Omaha World Herald, Sam McKewon from

Scott Frost coached football at Oregon for seven seasons. The Ducks averaged 44.6 points per game and 11 wins per season, seizing control of the Pac-12 Conference with a spread system built on speed, speed and more speed.

But in each of those seasons, there were one or two games where the Ducks’ offense — Frost’s offense — got clipped, or Oregon’s defense wilted against an opponent. Frost knew those losses weren’t defined by talent or coaching.

“The only games we lost out there were where somebody was just bigger and stronger than us, and we couldn’t deal with it,” Frost said. And so he knew, when he became a head coach, he’d fuse new-school Oregon speed with a strength and development program that won three national titles in the 1990s.

“Old-school Husker Power,” Frost said of Nebraska’s pioneering strength staff, a group of coaches so confident in their work that they’d test their football players in the spring and release the results to the news media.

 

Wearable sensors for monitoring the internal and external workload of the athlete | npj Digital Medicine

npj Digital Medicine; Dhruv R. Seshadri, Ryan T. Li, James E. Voos, James R. Rowbottom, Celeste M. Alfes, Christian A. Zorman & Colin K. Drummond from

The convergence of semiconductor technology, physiology, and predictive health analytics from wearable devices has advanced its clinical and translational utility for sports. The detection and subsequent application of metrics pertinent to and indicative of the physical performance, physiological status, biochemical composition, and mental alertness of the athlete has been shown to reduce the risk of injuries and improve performance and has enabled the development of athlete-centered protocols and treatment plans by team physicians and trainers. Our discussions in this review include commercially available devices, as well as those described in scientific literature to provide an understanding of wearable sensors for sports medicine. The primary objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the applications of wearable technology for assessing the biomechanical and physiological parameters of the athlete. A secondary objective of this paper is to identify collaborative research opportunities among academic research groups, sports medicine health clinics, and sports team performance programs to further the utility of this technology to assist in the return-to-play for athletes across various sporting domains. A companion paper discusses the use of wearables to monitor the biochemical profile and mental acuity of the athlete. [full text]

 

Wearable technology market doubles in size

Innovations in Textiles blog from

IDTechEx, a leading market and technology research firm, has released its most comprehensive report covering the wearable technology industry. According to the report, wearable technology products are thriving, with a total market worth over US$ 50 billion in 2019, having more than doubled in size since just 2014. This historic growth is driven by product types including smartwatches, continuous glucose monitoring devices (CGM), hearing aids, headphones and AR, VR & MR.

 

Smart Textiles Terminology Defined In New ASTM International Standard

Textile World from

ASTM International’s smart textiles subcommittee (known as D13.50) has approved its first standard, a compilation of industry terms.

“The textile industry is currently experiencing a renaissance with the development of novel and emerging materials that provide opportunities for new consumer applications and markets,” says ASTM International member Carole Winterhalter. “This new smart textile terminology standard provides the ability to objectively classify and differentiate some of these new materials and products.”

 

Overuse, or one bad move? New view on ACL tears prompt questions on how athletes train

University of Michigan News from

Tears of the knee’s anterior cruciate ligament, a serious injury for athletes, may not just be the result of one instant of giving the joint more than it can handle, but rather the cumulative effect of less-severe, repeated stresses.

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It’s a finding from University of Michigan researchers that could have implications for athletes of all ages, in sports that include soccer, football, volleyball and basketball—even downhill skiing. The researchers say serious childhood knee injuries might be avoided if coaches treated knees similarly to how Little League Baseball manages strain on the throwing arm and shoulder with pitch counts.

ACL tears are often seen in professional sports when an athlete lands, while simultaneously attempting to change directions quickly. These ‘noncontact” injuries often come as athletes make moves they’ve made hundreds of times before.

“The dogma in this area of research has been that the tear occurred because of the tensile force in the ACL during that one landing that caused it to fail,” said James Ashton-Miller, the Albert Schultz Collegiate Research Professor and a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at U-M.

 

A Gut Check on Gut Health: What You Need to Know

NASM Blog, Joseph Weiss and Danielle Weiss from

Each of us has held beliefs—obtained through observation, experience or even formal education—that were later found to be wrong. In fact, medical schooling begins with a warning: “Half of all that you will be taught will be proven false in the future, yet which half cannot be known at present!” Some recently “overturned” beliefs involve the human gut microbiome, beginning with its scope, its diversity and, currently, the various ways it affects and is affected by the body. Here is a review of what is known now and what is currently under investigation.

 

What Lifters Should Know About Creatine

Lifehacker, Vitals, Beth Skwarecki from

Creatine is a rare thing in the world of workout supplements: It actually works, plus it’s cheap and safe. If you’re trying to build muscle or lift the heaviest things around, you might want to get into the habit of taking creatine every day—but there are, of course, some caveats.

 

NBA Player & Seven Footer Start Apothecary for Athletes in Bushwick

Bushwick Daily, Tiffany Cordero from

DJ Hayley and Treveon Graham (formerly Brooklyn Nets, now Minnesota Timberwolves) are best friends with very similar passions. The pair, who met while playing basketball at Virginia Commonwealth University, both love the sport and wanted to be able to play as long as possible. While Graham decided to pursue basketball professionally from the start, Hayley decided to return to the court after a two-year stint in management consulting. However, for Hayley, things would take a shocking turn.

On his first game back, Hayley fully ruptured his achilles but was determined to return to the game he loved so much. After spending two years trying to rehabilitate, he realized that playing professionally might not be in the cards anymore.

“I was training with Tre’s shooting coach as I was trying to get back in after my injury,” said Hayley. “We got to talking about our goals of being able to play for as long as we could, that’s when we came up with the concept.” The duo initially looked into CBD and thought about applying that solely to Apply Recover, but discovered in the process that there was more potential.

 

BYU basketball coach Mark Pope adds a ‘total game changer’ to his staff

Deseret News, Jeff Call from

BYU basketball coach Mark Pope continued to add to his staff Friday by announcing the hiring of Nathan Bubes as the program’s coordinator of strategy and analytics.

“Nate Bubes is 100 percent, unequivocally, without hyperbole, a total game changer for our program here at BYU,” Pope said in a statement. “As the new coordinator of strategy and analytics, he has already changed the way that we are capable of teaching, training and developing our players. Simply put, Nate is making BYU basketball one of the top technological programs in the country, giving our team an incredible advantage.”

Bubes’ responsibilities include video operations and analytics. He’ll oversee recruiting film, self-scouting, opponent scouting, postgame reports and recruiting data. His focus will be on the latest technology and performance science to help the basketball program.

 

Soccer: New York City FC reap rewards of shared Manchester City vision

Reuters, Peter Hall from

… “We are a family of clubs at City Football Group and we all have direct links back to Manchester,” [Claudio Reyna] told Reuters in an interview.

“It is great to be able to have more insight, tap into the network that Man City has. From our coaches being able to go over and learn from their coaches in their academy, or have their academy director coaches come over here and support us to exchange out ideas.

“There is a sharing of scouting information at all levels. For the first team, it is very useful. It is great to get information, to learn. There is a shared philosophy of how to play football and how to get things done at City Football Group on the field and off it.

 

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