England’s Women’s Super League players have been given a pointer from their German counterparts on what to expect when they return to training – no tackles, no contact and equipment constantly being disinfected.
They have also been warned about the mental hurdles they will need to clear when they get back to the training pitch: “If you think too much ahead, you will just go crazy.”
Eleven of the 12 clubs in the Frauen-Bundesliga – the top tier of women’s football in Germany – voted last Thursday in favour of resuming the season following its suspension. Some WSL players are expected to rejoin their clubs towards the end of this month although the Football Association – which oversees the league – is understood to be no closer to making a decision around when play will resume and on the form it will take.
… This ability has helped Dressel develop the most explosive start in the world, instantly giving him a lead over his competitors.
Particularly crucial in short course swimming, Dressel’s start has helped him set NCAA, U.S. Open and American Records in the SCY 50 and 100 freestyle, 100 breaststroke (which has since been broken), 100 butterfly and 200 IM, not to mention the world record in the SCM 50 free.
… “That was a huge reason why I was able to come back so fast and recover so quickly. From that whole process, I learned a lot of strategies that helped with eating healthy,” he said. “I feel better and I’ve seen success with it — not just with my body and basketball but with my life as a whole.”
Now, as a guard for the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League, that lifestyle change that he maintains today has also grown into an altruistic cottage industry.
While he has fully embraced the power of nutrition and positive health habits, he wants to help others become the best version of themselves by offering motivation and challenges for people to get healthy via Twitter, newsletters and e-books.
Bruce and Kristi Ewen never threw away their daughter’s homemade shot put ring. After Maggie went to college at Arizona State, they tucked it in the back of their barn in St. Francis, where their home gym shares space with a tractor and a boat.
Maggie didn’t expect to use that plywood circle again. But she also didn’t expect a pandemic to shut down her training facility in Moorhead. With no other options, the reigning U.S. bronze medalist moved back home in March, dusting off her old throwing ring and doing strength workouts in the barn.
“My parents are into fitness, and they have all kinds of stuff: dumbbell sets, battle ropes, a squat rack,” Ewen said. “It’s nothing fancy, but there’s everything you need to get the job done. I’ve been really lucky throughout this whole crisis, with the level of training I’m still able to do even with everything closed down.”
… Most importantly, Smith appreciated the culture head coach Juwan Howard has instilled. As a high schooler, Smith befriended then-Chicago Bulls star Jimmy Butler at a camp. “He took me under his wing and now we’re really good friends,” Smith said. In fact, the two are currently training together in San Diego, waking up at 5 a.m. for the first of two daily workouts.
Butler now plays for the Miami Heat, where Howard was an assistant coach the previous six seasons. “Jimmy talks about how the Heat culture isn’t for everybody, but he loves it,” Smith said. Butler told Smith that Howard had brought that culture to Ann Arbor. “It gets you better,” Smith said. “I wanted to be a part of that.”
1) If you feel tired at rest or feel higher-than-when-you-are-not-fatigued effort during tasks, you are fatigued. This could be because of prolonged mental/physical exertion but also other causes, eg chemotherapy, or you may not know why (CFS/ME).
2) If prolonged mental or physical exertion causes a reduction in performance, you are fatigued. Often 2 is combined with 1 but you may feel 1 and not have a reduction in performance (yet). In any case you are fatigued 3/n
A typical Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon can take around six or seven years to achieve. That’s plenty of time for students to get to grips with the lab’s philosophy and approach to technology. FIGLAB has access to the latest components, often long before they’re accessible to most people. But their approach to these can be dazzlingly subversive: Sure, you created this expensive component to do X, but we’re going to make it do Y because, reasons.
“It often happens where we’re playing with things and we find entirely new ways to leverage them,” [Chris] Harrison said. “We might get some crazy new sensor that might be for sensing, you know, temperature inside of a steel furnace. We’re like, ‘well, what happens if you flip it upside down and put it in a smartwatch?’ Well, oh my gosh, now you can do authentication based on blood vessels.”
Columbia University, School of Engineering and Applied Science from
Dion Khodagholy, assistant professor of electrical engineering, is focused on developing bioelectronic devices that are not only fast, sensitive, biocompatible, soft, and flexible, but also have long-term stability in physiological environments such as the human body. Such devices would greatly improve human health, from monitoring in-home wellness to diagnosing and treating neuropsychiatric diseases, including epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. The design of current devices has been severely constrained by the rigid, non-biocompatible electronic components needed for safe and effective use, and solving this challenge would open the door to a broad range of exciting new therapies.
Science Advances, Patricia Jastrzebska-Perfect et al. from
Bioelectronic devices should optimally merge a soft, biocompatible tissue interface with capacity for local, advanced signal processing. Here, we introduce an organic mixed-conducting particulate composite material (MCP) that can form functional electronic components by varying particle size and density. We created MCP-based high-performance anisotropic films, independently addressable transistors, resistors, and diodes that are pattern free, scalable, and biocompatible. MCP enabled facile and effective electronic bonding between soft and rigid electronics, permitting recording of neurophysiological data at the resolution of individual neurons from freely moving rodents and from the surface of the human brain through a small opening in the skull. We also noninvasively acquired high–spatiotemporal resolution electrophysiological signals by directly interfacing MCP with human skin. MCP provides a single-material solution to facilitate development of bioelectronic devices that can safely acquire, transmit, and process complex biological signals. [full text]
The Big Ten Conference announced Monday that it has undertaken a league-wide initiative to promote mental health among its student-athletes, coaches and athletic administrators.
“This world that we live in right now is so complicated and complex, especially for young people,” first-year Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren said. “I made a promise when I took this job that I was going to put the physical and mental health and wellness of our student-athletes in the Big Ten at the center of all of my decisions.”
Toward that goal, the league made public the formation in December of a Big Ten Mental Health and Wellness Cabinet, a board of 31 representatives from the school’s 14 member institutions and affiliate members Johns Hopkins (which plays Big Ten men’s and women’s lacrosse) and Notre Dame (men’s ice hockey).
SportRXiv Preprints; Joseph El-Khoury, Steven Stovitz, Ian Shrier from
The purpose of this editorial is to provide a compendium of injury rates calculated by both athlete-at-risk and athlete-exposure methods across a wide variety of sports so future investigators can compare their results to the literature using different methods. When available, the compendium includes results for preseason, in-season and postseason games and practices. [full text]
SB Nation, Beyond the Boxscore blog, Luis Torres from
Longenhagen and McDaniel put together what is a must-read for anyone who wants to get into scouting, while also being useful for those who want to work in baseball in other capacities.
There is going to be another attempt at women’s professional volleyball in America, but this one hoping to launch in February 2021 will be different.
Very different.
As it was explained Wednesday by one of the founders, Jon Patricof of his company Athletes Unlimited, the league will last six weeks and be conducted entirely in one — yet to be named — city.
