Ousmane Dembele will receive treatment on his injured hamstring at a sports medicine hospital in Qatar, Barcelona have confirmed.
Dembele is expected to be sidelined until February by the injury to his right hamstring, which he sustained during the first half of Barca’s 3-1 win over his former club Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday.
To investigate the relationship between repeated sprint ability (RSA) and several aerobic and anaerobic-related soccer-performance indicators, 45 youth soccer players (age 16.8 ± 0.1 years) were classified into “high” (HAF) or “low” aerobic fitness (LAF) (VO2max ≥ or <60 ml·kg·min, respectively) and completed an RSA test measuring best (RSAbest), mean (RSAmean), total sprint time (RSAtotal), and percent sprint decrement (Sdec). A laboratory VO2max test (LabTest) together with anaerobic threshold (VT) and peak speed was measured (vLabTest). In addition, a 20-m multistage shuttle run test (MSRT) and a soccer-specific test (TIVRE-Soccer test-TST) were completed. Heart rate (HR) and HR recovery (HRR) were measured during all tests. High aerobic fitness presented greater (p ≤ 0.05) performance in LabTest, MSRT and TST, at maximal effort, at VT, as well as faster HRR. RSA was similar between HAF and LAF. Contrary to HAF, LAF showed negative correlation between vLabTest with RSAmean (r = -0.6, p = 0.000) and Sdec (r = -0.4, p = 0.044). Also, LAF showed negative correlation between TST end speed (vTST) and RSAmean (r = -0.5, p = 0.005) and Sdec (r = -0.5, p = 0.003). In LAF, RSA was strongly correlated with locomotor factors (e.g., vTST; VT) in both laboratory and field tests. Athletes with high total HRR (>12.5%) in TST presented better (p ≤ 0.05) Sdec in the RSA test. The multiple regression revealed that the LAF vLabTest explained 44.9, 40.0, and 13.5% of the variance in RSAbest, RSAmean, and Sdec, respectively. Practitioners may consider these findings to optimize youth athletes’ assessment and preparation processes.
… Many anxiety interventions focus on ways in which we can control our physiology to ensure that athletes keep a “cool head”. The simplest of all relaxation strategies is slow diaphragmatic breathing, similar to that used in meditation and yoga. We now know that breathing in this way can have a number of benefits.
The most obvious benefit is the immediate effect upon our physiology. If you feel yourself becoming stressed, you will notice how your heart rate increases and your breathing becomes more shallow and sporadic. Concentrating on your breathing and aiming to slow it down will reduce your heart rate and make you feel more calm and in control.
This type of breathing allows us to “hijack” the body’s natural blood pressure regulation system and to increase our heart rate variability (HRV).
‘On average’ there might be differences but there can be substantial variation within the respective groups. Attempting to apply group-based data to individuals, particularly elite athletes, is unwise.
Artificial intelligence is playing a very important role in thefuture of video editing. Anybody that works in the profession should learn how to use AI technology to get the most value out of their videos.
How can you use AI to benefit as a video editor? Intelligent HQ founder Dinis Guarda has talked about some of the benefits of artificial intelligence for video editing in this article. Guarda stated that AI is helping with automating the process and curating better video footage.
NFL and AWS will use data and analytics to co-develop the “Digital Athlete,” a platform that aims to improve player safety, treatment, and ultimately predict and prevent injury
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the National Football League (NFL) today announced a new partnership with a goal of advancing player health and safety using AWS’s unmatched portfolio of services and expertise. Building on the existing Next Gen Stats (NGS) partnership, and as the NFL marks its 100th season, AWS and the NFL will innovate together to shape the future of football.
The partnership aims to leverage AWS’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services to provide a deeper and more profound understanding of the game than ever before, making transformational change possible in football, other sports, and potentially other industries.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to announce that as of today, Athlete Central, the Agency’s new App that facilitates athlete compliance with Whereabouts rules under the global anti-doping program, is available for use and download from the Apple Store and Google Play. Athlete Central, which is powered by WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS), replaces WADA’s current App that has been operational for a few years and required modernizing.
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Runners at the Palm Beaches marathon next weekend will be greeted at the finish line with packets of pickle juice. St. Thomas Aquinas High School football players are handed pickle juice pouches when they come out of a game, to help them prepare to go back in.
But the question is: Is the pungent green liquid really a magic elixir?
… Recently there have been large trials examining the complex relationship between fish oil and heart health. The results have been mixed and somewhat confusing, leaving both patients and physicians to wonder: will fish oil supplements reduce my risk of heart disease?
What’s the connection between fish oil and heart health?
How might omega-3-fatty acids found in fish oil provide heart health? Multiple possibilities have been proposed and are supported by animal research.
This analysis quantifies how deep-lying midfield players can help drive a team’s attacking play through sideways or backward passes.
Although 46% of Jorginho’s actions for Chelsea were ‘regressive’ last season, 29 sequences involving his regressive actions ended in a goal, ranking him in Europe’s top 20 midfielders.
Using clustering methods, young midfielders Pablo Rosario (PSV), Teun Koopmeiners (AZ) and Houssem Aouar (Lyon) all profiled similarly to Jorginho last season based on their passing and distribution.
It’s been obvious to anyone paying attention: For the past few years, women’s soccer has been on the rise across the world. Broadcast viewership is up, tickets are selling out, and sponsors are throwing money at the chance to partner with aspirational female athletes.
But as the sport becomes more competitive globally, the burden has been on the National Women’s Soccer League to keep up. The American league would need to transition to a “version 2.0” – and sweeping changes for next season are designed to achieve just that.
“We have a desire to continue to be in the best in the world and that means standards are going to rise,” said Steve Malik, owner of the North Carolina Courage. “Who do you think everyone is gunning for anyway? From a talent standpoint, everybody’s coming at us, and we’re embracing these changes to give clubs more tools to raise their quality.”
As the 2019 women’s college soccer season draws to a close, the country is left with the top four programs facing off in the NCAA Division 1 Women’s College Cup in San Jose, California this weekend, and consistent with previous years, ECNL Alums have again overwhelmingly dominated the 2019 College Cup rosters.
Over the last four years, the ECNL has averaged 82 alums each year participating in the Final Four. This year, between the UCLA Bruins, North Carolina Tarheels, Stanford Cardinal and Washington State Cougars, the Women’s College Cup Final Four includes 75 ECNL Alums.
In 1998, a record 96 pitchers qualified for an earned-run average title. Major League Baseball had just expanded to 30 teams. There were more players, and more pitchers, than ever. In the years that followed, the number of ERA qualifiers – pitchers who threw at least 162 innings in a season – hovered in the eighties and nineties.
Then after the 2014 season, a funny thing happened. Qualifying for an ERA title became somewhat rare. Only 78 pitchers qualified in 2015, then 74, then 58. By 2018, MLB had only 57 qualifiers or fewer than any individual season from 1901 to 1944 (when there were only 16 teams!).
… Bannister, 38, who spent parts of five seasons pitching in the big leagues, joined the Sox in early 2015 as a pro scout and analyst. But his ability to blend data, analytics, and biomechanics in a language that connected easily with pitchers made clear to the Sox that he was well-suited for a broader role, leading to his promotion to director of pitching analysis and development in Sept. 2015 — around the same time that he helped Rich Hill’s transformation in Triple-A Pawtucket from journeyman to frontline starter.
… Bucking the trend are the Wizards, who hired Dean Oliver as an assistant coach this season. Oliver wrote the bible of basketball analytics, “Basketball on Paper,” and has served in three front offices.
The biggest change in moving to the bench, Oliver said, is trading in the long-term view for the short-term. “When you are on it, on that bench, in practice every day, you are doing everything you can to make everybody better for the next game,” he said.