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Jarrett Jack’s principal job with the NBA’s G League Ignite is to make sure his young, impressionable teammates are not blown off course by hubris or anxiety. He was hired, so to speak, in part to be the on-court, wise counsel to Ignite’s 5-star high school talents who shunned major college basketball to get started on their professional careers.
Jack, 36, has been given many nicknames by his young teammates, including “OG” for original gangster. But the 14-year NBA vet and glue of Georgia Tech’s 2004 Final Four team isn’t ruling out a return to the show — and this current opportunity could jump-start that comeback.
“This is just the healthiest I’ve ever felt as a professional,” said Jack, who last played in the NBA in the 2017-18 season with the N.Y. Knicks when he was coming off knee surgery.
… Although he has split his minutes between right- and left-back for the national team, Dest has been deployed primarily on the right at Barca, either because that’s where manager Ronald Koeman thinks he’s most capable or because Alba remains a mainstay at left-back. Dest has logged a goal and an assist, but his primary job has been to move the ball from the second level of the defense to the third. Turns out he’s quite good at it.
Most people think that if you practice any kind of sports at a professional level, you have no time left for anything else. Most footballers have focused solely on improving and developing their football skills. To do this, you need to practice every day, go to matches, look for feedback, and practice again. Practice makes it perfect, but it also eats most of your time.
… “When they come in, the national team is about winning, it’s about results, it’s about qualifying, doing well at the World Cup – these types of things and there’s really no room to say, ‘OK, we can perform at 50 percent this game,’” Berhalter said during an Extratime interview. “Having said that, it’s just being mindful of the players and their time.
“One thing I can guarantee you is a guy like Christian Pulisic is not going to be playing Nations League and Gold Cup – it’s not going to happen. These guys need a break, so I can imagine them playing one of those tournaments and then getting rest. That’s going to be true for a lot of our guys who are going through similar situations right now.”
A key skill in collaborative problem-solving is to communicate and evaluate reasons for proposals to arrive at the decision benefiting all group members. Although it is well-documented that collaborative contexts facilitate young children’s reasoning, less is known about whether competition with other groups contributes to children’s collaborative reasoning. We investigated whether between-group competition facilitates children’s within-group collaborative reasoning, regarding their production of reasons and their use of transacts, communicative acts that operate on one another’s proposals and reasoning. We presented 5- and 7-year-old peer dyads with two collaborative problem-solving tasks (decorating a zoo and a dollhouse). In one task, children competed against another group (the competitive condition); whereas in the other task, they did not (non-competitive condition). Our results suggest that children’s sensitivity to group competition as reflected in their reasoning changed depending on the task. When they decorated a house, they produced more transacts in the competitive condition than in the non-competitive condition; whereas when they decorated a zoo, this pattern was reversed. Thus, our results highlight that group competition did not influence children’s collaborative reasoning consistently across different contexts.
The old adage that all runners eventually get injured is faulty. Rather, runners that don’t build mileage methodically or neglect to consider important factors like diet, shoe choice, mobility, flexibility, strength, and recovery are at higher risk for injury. The potential for injury is in fact greater in new or returning runners with lower mileage compared to seasoned, experienced runners with higher mileage. This indicates that running a lot of miles isn’t necessarily the reason athletes get injured. A major contributor to this discrepancy is tissue adaptation — a simple way of explaining how muscles, bones and connective tissue like ligaments and tendons adjust to load and stress through use and recovery.
Altitude International, Inc (OTCQB: “ALTD”) announced today that renowned Sports Scientist and Olympian Professor Greg Whyte OBE will become an integral part of the Company’s operations and has been named its Director of Sports Science and Performance. Professor Whyte recently returned to ALTD’s Board of Directors and will now be leading the Company’s research and development initiatives as well as the formulation of unique position specific training protocols for every ALTD client. He will also be monitoring and directing the after-sales of ALTD’s simulated altitude chambers worldwide.
SBG Sports Software is excited to announce a new multi-year partnership with USA Field Hockey to provide the U.S. Women’s National Team with Focus, SBG’s next generation video analysis system.
The USWNT’s new coaching team, headed by Anthony Farry, is using Focus on the touchline for recording and instant replay of all available viewpoints in matches and training sessions. With access to every camera angle, staff can tag events and review key moments on a shared timeline, building playlists which can be shared with the athletes at halftime.
“Focus’ collaborative workflow is particularly useful during these times when our staffing numbers are having to be restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” commented Farry. “Being able to share clips and notes between staff and players is vital to keeping our training philosophy and game play consistent, as well as our players engaged and injury free.”
Background The UEFA Elite Club Injury Study is the largest and longest running injury surveillance programme in football.
Objective To analyse the 18-season time trends in injury rates among male professional football players.
Methods 3302 players comprising 49 teams (19 countries) were followed from 2000–2001 through 2018–2019. Team medical staff recorded individual player exposure and time-loss injuries.
Results A total of 11 820 time-loss injuries were recorded during 1 784 281 hours of exposure. Injury incidence fell gradually during the 18-year study period, 3% per season for both training injuries (95% CI 1% to 4% decrease, p=0.002) and match injuries (95% CI 2% to 3% decrease, p<0.001). Ligament injury incidence decreased 5% per season during training (95% CI 3% to 7% decrease, p<0.001) and 4% per season during match play (95% CI 3% to 6% decrease, p<0.001), while the rate of muscle injuries remained constant. The incidence of reinjuries decreased by 5% per season during both training (95% CI 2% to 8% decrease, p=0.001) and matches (95% CI 3% to 7% decrease, p<0.001). Squad availability increased by 0.7% per season for training sessions (95% CI 0.5% to 0.8% increase, p<0.001) and 0.2% per season for matches (95% CI 0.1% to 0.3% increase, p=0.001).
Conclusions Over 18 years: (1) injury incidence decreased in training and matches, (2) reinjury rates decreased, and (3) player availability for training and match play increased. [full text]
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Supplementing with creatine is very popular amongst athletes and exercising individuals for improving muscle mass, performance and recovery. Accumulating evidence also suggests that creatine supplementation produces a variety of beneficial effects in older and patient populations. Furthermore, evidence-based research shows that creatine supplementation is relatively well tolerated, especially at recommended dosages (i.e. 3-5 g/day or 0.1 g/kg of body mass/day). Although there are over 500 peer-refereed publications involving creatine supplementation, it is somewhat surprising that questions regarding the efficacy and safety of creatine still remain. These include, but are not limited to: 1. Does creatine lead to water retention? 2. Is creatine an anabolic steroid? 3. Does creatine cause kidney damage/renal dysfunction? 4. Does creatine cause hair loss / baldness? 5. Does creatine lead to dehydration and muscle cramping? 6. Is creatine harmful for children and adolescents? 7. Does creatine increase fat mass? 8. Is a creatine ‘loading-phase’ required? 9. Is creatine beneficial for older adults? 10. Is creatine only useful for resistance / power type activities? 11. Is creatine only effective for males? 12. Are other forms of creatine similar or superior to monohydrate and is creatine stable in solutions/beverages? To answer these questions, an internationally renowned team of research experts was formed to perform an evidence-based scientific evaluation of the literature regarding creatine supplementation.
North Americans weren’t the first to grind peanuts—the Inca beat us to it by a few hundred years—but peanut butter reappeared in the modern world because of an American, the doctor, nutritionist and cereal pioneer John Harvey Kellogg, who filed a patent for a proto-peanut butter in 1895. Kellogg’s “food compound” involved boiling nuts and grinding them into an easily digestible paste for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a spa for all kinds of ailments. The original patent didn’t specify what type of nut to use, and Kellogg experimented with almonds as well as peanuts, which had the virtue of being cheaper. While modern peanut butter enthusiasts would likely find Kellogg’s compound bland, Kellogg called it “the most delicious nut butter you ever tasted in your life.”
Seven-inning doubleheaders and runners on second base to start extra innings will return for a second straight season under an agreement for 2021 health protocols reached Monday between Major League Baseball and the players’ association.
The deal did not include last year’s experimental rule to extend the designated hitter to the National League or expanded playoffs. After allowing 16 teams in the postseason last year instead of 10, MLB had proposed 14 for this year before withdrawing that plan last month.
