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Sleep: the key to recovery and training adaptation

Posted Friday, 27 September 2013

Sports physiologists and sports medicine practitioners working with highly trained athletes often hear them complain about difficulties in falling asleep or of insufficient sleep quantity or quality. This is a major issue, as insufficient sleep will have a negative impact on recovery from training and will therefore hinder training adaptation...

Do Genetic Advantages Make Sport Unfair?

Posted Friday, 27 September 2013

Toward the end of “The Sports Gene”, David Epstein makes his way to a remote corner of Finland to visit a man named Eero Mäntyranta. Mäntyranta lives in a small house next to a lake, among the pine and spruce trees north of the Arctic Circle. He is in his...

Wind Chill

Posted Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Wind Chill So you’ve heard of wind chill or 'feels like' on the BBC weather forecast, but do you know what it is? I suppose that the name is a dead give-away, although you’d be surprised that there are a few methods of actually calculating it. Convection On a calm...

P.E Teachers wanted to run Activity Day Camps

Posted Wednesday, 25 September 2013

P.E Teachers wanted to run Activity Day Camps during October Half Term Easter and Summer Holidays £XXX per week (Times, Mon-Fri, accommodation provided or not). Holiday Camps are looking for Qualified P.E Teachers (preferably with 3+ years experience) to manage their Holiday Activity Camps. You will be responsible for managing,...

Sport-Related Concussion: Some Perspective Amidst the Alarms

Posted Friday, 20 September 2013

Sport-related concussion (SRC) has received considerable popular and scientific attention in recent years. Unfortunately, much of this attention has reflected an inadequate appreciation of the natural clinical history of SRC, its risks, and the paucity of evidential support underlying various management approaches. In fact, two of the most popular beliefs...

In-Season versus Off-Season Considerations and Programming for Rugby

Posted Friday, 20 September 2013

Recovery is our biggest issue in-season as well as available time in the training week to ensure that each player is physically prepared for the next game. I attempt to have multiple options and daily sessions for players to train because all players have individual needs. However, the options immediately...