Applied Sports Science newsletter – February 3, 2020

Applied Sports Science news articles, blog posts and research papers for February 3, 2020

 

Annie Pankowski relishes another shot at making U.S. Olympic hockey team

Los Angeles Times, Helene Elliott from

… She’s an intelligent and accomplished woman who spent thousands of hours working for a Madison, Wis., nonprofit called OccuPaws, training guide dogs for people who have problems with their mobility or their sight.

She had the mental and emotional strength to rebound from that searing Olympic snub to score the insurance goal in Wisconsin’s NCAA championship victory over Minnesota last spring.

A few weeks after that she was a dominant force in scoring seven points in seven games as the U.S. women won the world championship.

 

Steph Curry re-evaluated, Warriors hopeful he can play in March

San Jose Mercury News, Bay Area News Group, Wes Goldberg from

Stephen Curry underwent his scheduled re-evaluation Saturday morning and the team, encouraged by his progress, is hopeful he can return at some point in March.

Curry, who has missed most of the season after undergoing surgery for a broken left hand in November, will be re-evaluated in four more weeks as he continues to expand his individual on-court work each week.

 

Chiefs’ doc knew Mahomes would return quickly from knee injury

NFL.com, Ian Rapoport from

While Patrick Mahomes was in pain on the turf, his knee sideways, a nation collectively gasped. It appeared to the untrained eye that the Chiefs’ star quarterback — one of the best in the NFL — had his season abruptly end.

That, by the way, included Mahomes. He said this week, “I thought the worst for sure.” To the trained eye of Dr. J Paul Schroeppel, the Chiefs orthopedist, it was much, much different.

“We knew pretty early that he had a good chance to come back from this in a timely matter,” said Schroeppel, who works at the University of Kansas Medical Center, told NFL.com in his first comments about Mahomes’ injury. “His imaging and everything suggested that, as well. It’s one of those things generally you can rehab and do OK with for a lot of people.”

 

How Are You Doing?

Tinman Elite from

In the first installment of the “How Are You Doing?” series, Drew [Hunter] opens up about his decision to pull out of the 2019 IAAF World Championships, struggling with his injury, and finding happiness in the past few months.

 

Bulldogs focus on strength and conditioning

Yale Daily News, Eugenio Garza Garcia from

… Yale’s strength and conditioning department is headed by Tom Newman, director of student-athlete innovation and performance. Newman is always looking for new opportunities to give Yale athletics an edge. Some of his past projects include tracking the nutrition program of football players and working with ENAS 118 students to help improve the reaction time of the men’s lacrosse goalies.

“Beyond the obvious physical and mental benefits of strength and conditioning, we are able to push our limits and strengthen our mindset in the weight room,” women’s golf head coach Lauren Harling said. “It is also a time where we truly operate as a team and are able to verbally and emotionally support one another in a particular moment because on the golf course, we are spread out and competing in individual situations. Time in the gym builds confidence as individuals and is a big investment in our team culture as a whole unit.”

 

Beyond the Pancakes: Tennessee Weight Coach Explains UT’s “Savage Training”

SwimSwam, Coleman Hodges from

When SwimSwam visited the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and got the chance to document both the women’s and men’s programs in the weight room, we sat down with their strength coach, Greg Adamson, to see what his philosophy for training swimmers was like.

Adamson has now been training the UT swimmers for 4 years, but previously had never worked with swimmers. Under the tutelage of head swim coach Matt Kredich as well as some of his more esteemed strength colleagues, Adamson started getting a sense of how he wanted to help the UT program in and out of the water.

For Adamson, it’s about “how can we get more fluent in movement efficiency; how can we create the shapes we need to create.”

 

Andrea Hudy to return to KU for Jayhawks-Texas game Monday

The Kansas City Star, Gary Bedore from

… Texas in December broke ground on Moody Center, a $338 million project that will replace 42-year-old Frank Erwin Center, the building in which KU claimed a 66-57 victory over UT on Jan. 18 in the first of two meetings between the teams in 2019-20.

“I’m excited to be part of designing some of the areas in the Moody Center for sure,” Hudy said.

 

Overuse Injuries in Sports Aren’t Wholly Preventable. But They Are Reducible

Lower Extremity Review Magazine, Nicole Wetsman from

Getting better at any sport, at any level, takes practice, commitment—and repetition. Basketball players shoot jump shot after jump shot, soccer players drill footwork, and cross-country athletes log seemingly endless miles. The constant work to make each motion natural and instinctive is important but can also wear down the joints involved. For many athletes, repetition can, occasionally, lead to overuse injury. Unlike acute injury, which occurs after a single incident, overuse injury results from repeated small stresses.

“If you are playing a sport at a high level and using your body in that way, you’re subjecting it to potential breakdown due to exposure, to some degree,” said Chris Dodson, MD, sports medicine surgeon and associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. “You really can’t stop it. If you could, every major league sport would be doing it. But every single one of them has athletes with overuse injuries.”

 

My Take on the Carbon-Plated Running Shoe Controversy

8020 Endurance, Matt Fitzgerald from

… The real reason slower runners tend not to shell out for Vaporfly’s and similar kicks is the same reason they’re less likely than faster runners to run doubles and to spend 20 minutes every evening doing corrective exercises: They don’t feel they’re good enough at running to deserve to. It’s basic human psychology—in selecting and pursuing vocations and avocations, people tend to invest the most time and energy in the things for which they have the greatest aptitude. In other words, talent and passion are deeply connected. And yet they’re not the same thing. It is possible, and indeed not all that uncommon, for people to have a great passion for some activity they have no special talent for.

I’m one of them. My passion for endurance training and racing far exceeds my talent. I try almostas hard to realize my full potential as elite endurance athletes do (indeed, I once spent an entire summer training with a team of professional runners, an experience you can read about here), and I don’t believe that even one iota of the time and effort I’ve invested in this quest has been wasted. Slower athletes are no less rewarded than faster athletes by the choice to pour all the passion they have into the quest to find out how good they can be.

 

let me re-state it. i think the energetically optimal stack height varies with foam properties, is body mass dependent and varies btwn individuals of the same mass.

Twitter, Rodger Kram from

100mm is not optimal for anybody, it may that 50mm is > optimal for everybody. Let runners each find their optimal.

 

Trio of former Duke players win NFL innovation competition

FOX Sports, AP from

Imagine protective pads designed after a quick scan, then created within hours by a 3-D printer.


 

You’re Not All Human: The Wonder of Gut Microbes

Simons Foundation from

The finely tuned collection of bacteria, archaea and fungi collectively known as the microbiome hold an exquisite power that we are only beginning to recognize.

 

NUTRITION & ATHLETE BONE HEALTH

Gatorade Sports Science Institute, Craig Sale and Kirsty Jayne Elliott-Sale from

  • Athletes need to pay more attention to their bone health, in the short term, to reduce the risk of injury, and in the long term when they have retired from the sport.
  • The general diet required by the athlete to support bone health is not markedly different from the general population.
  • However, it is unclear whether dietary recommendations for the general population are sufficient to offset any deficiency or insufficiency in the athlete. For example, it is not known what the optimal intakes of various micronutrients might be to support the athlete through hard training and competition.
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    Packers pay up — to the tune of $5.28M — for their good health

    ESPN, Rob Demovsky from

    Here’s a check the Green Bay Packers gladly wrote: The team owed more than $5 million in weekly roster bonuses during the 2019 season, and it was their highest percentage of possible payouts in any of the past five seasons.

    They paid, essentially, for their good health.

    The Packers enjoyed one of their healthiest seasons in years — a factor that can’t be underestimated in their 13-3 regular-season record and trip to the NFC Championship Game.

     

    Maternity Leave—Not Higher Pay—Is the WNBA’s Real Win

    The Atlantic, Maggie Mertens from

    A new policy could transform the way professional female athletes experience pregnancy in their respective sports.

     

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