In-Season Injury Prevention Training

There are two primary objectives of strength and conditioning programs for team sports. Improve performance Reduce injury potential   The latter objective often gets overlooked and underestimated by players, coaches and parents for the former. Furthermore, the composition of many training programs often neglect the physical qualities more associated with injury reduction in favor of …

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Quantifying Sporting Actions from Competition to Monitor Fatigue

For a sport like soccer, the physical stress from competition constantly varies based on opponent, playing surface, competition schedule and so forth. Advancements in technology have resulted in the development and application of GPS monitoring to quantify training load during practices and competitions. However, this technology can be cost prohibitive for many sub-elite organizations with …

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All else being equal, does the stronger athlete win?

If you were to assess a team of young athletes in a 5 and 20 meter sprint, countermovement vertical jump, and squat jump, you will likely determine that the strongest athletes performed best. This is precisely what Comfort et al. (2013) found when they tested a team of 17 year old soccer players in these …

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