Articles
Here Strength of Science features articles from a variety of both practitioners and researchers in the form of case studies, literature reviews & blog style articlesAlthough novel ways of consuming information are what Strength of Science is all about, the written word will always be valuable to coaches and sports scientists.
There are some fantastic practitioners and researchers in the industry, and Strength of Science features articles from a number of them below.
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Snap-N-Send: Can We Accurately Assess What Athletes Are Eating?
Authors - Nessan Costello (@NessanCostello), Kevin Deighton (@K_Deighton), Josh Dyson (@Nutrition_JD), Jim McKenna, Ben Jones (@23Benjones) Associated Research Publications Snap-N-Send: A valid and reliable method for assessing the energy intake of elite adolescent...
Working in a Chinese System…
By Gavin Pratt, Performance Manager at EXOS. Working in China as a strength & conditioning coach is much like being a character in a Quinten Tarantino movie, the plot twists, story line and characters seem to make no sense at the beginning, but in the end, it...
What Strength & Conditioning Coaches can Learn from Personal Trainers…
By Mick Blythe (@MickBlythe1), personal trainer, educator, and owner of Performance100 In 1999 whilst working as a personal trainer (PT) in a local gym I did an induction for a woman who was 40, morbidly obese and had never trained before. She needed an easy, emphatic...
Practical Application of the Acute: Chronic Ratio in Football
By Scott Daly (@DalyScott), Lead Sports Scientist at Oxford United Football Club. Firstly, I would like to say that this article is not intended on being an example of ‘best practise’, it is simply how we have tried to keep players fresh and ready to play. I am very...
Velocity Based Training for Maximal Strength
By Tom Turner, Senior Strength & Conditioning Coach at Leinster Rugby. Interest in Velocity Based Training (VBT) methods in the strength and conditioning community has exploded in recent times. This has undoubtedly been driven by the increased availability of...
The Athletic Performance Model (Part 1)
By Andrew Althoff, Director of Applied Performance at Baylor University & Joshua Nelson, Associate Director of Applied Performance & Operations at Baylor University. Author’s note: This article is the first part of a four part series of an inside look at a...
Crimes Against Critical Thinking in the Face of a Good Story…
As the saying goes ‘never let the truth get in the way of a good story’. It is quite remarkable how readily we will override our capacity for critical thinking in the face of a story we want to hear. As we will see, if the message on offer appeals enough to a...
Championship Teams Realising Benefits of Wearable Technology and Military Sleep Research
The quest for an advantage in high performance sports starts well beyond the baseball diamond, basketball court or football field. In fact, performance advantages in professional sports leagues like the NFL, NBA, EPL and MLB are often a product of knowledge first...
Q&A with Physical Preparation Coach at the FA, Paul Bower
Paul Bower (pbower10) recently joined Luke Jenkinson (Derby County FC) and Kevin Paxton (Leicester City FC) on episode #98 of the Pacey Performance Podcast talking about physical preparation in academy football. On the back of that episode, we caught up with Paul for...
Problems & Solutions to Coaching Athletes Remotely
By Jace Derwin, Lead Sports Performance Specialist at Volt Athletics. Technology in the weight room is a rapidly expanding field, one that many strength coaches are beginning to explore. Not only is technological hardware taking innovative first steps in motion...
The Art of Teaching
By Matt Jay, Performance Manager at EXOS in Shanghai. CHINA, just a big classroom. Beginning my professional working career as a high school Science and Physical Development, Health and Physical Education Teacher, (it’s a mouthful, PDHPE for short), organisation,...
Getting Practical on Heart Rate Variability & Training
By Marco Altini, scientist and developer behind HRV4Training. Heart rate variability (HRV) is an important marker of an individual’s physiological stress level. Due to recent technological improvements in terms of computation power and accessibility to high-quality...
Practical Considerations for the Aspiring S&C Coach
By David Watts (Strength & Conditioning coach at the Queensland Academy of Sport) and Matt Jay (Performance Manager at EXOS) Young S&C coaches face a multitude of challenges on their way to finding success in this extremely competitive field of physical...
Hamstring Damage Resistance – Are You Attacking Both Ends?
By Lachlan Wilmot, Athletic Performance Coach at the GWSGiants. Power, strength, speed, all of these are sort after abilities in a majority of sports around the world, but are we chasing the golden egg before looking after the chicken? Within team sports, one of the...
Practical Application of a Plyometric Progression Plan
By Jacob Jennings, Strength & Conditioning Coach at the Aspire Academy in Doha, Qatar - @jake_jennings1 Apart from current doping scandals and the controversial handling of such detrimental actions, there’s no hotter topic these days in the athletic development...