Training Load (TL) Monitoring in Swimming The majority (81%) of Olympic swimming events are contested in under two minutes and twenty seconds. Despite this relatively short time frame, traditional training practices of competitive swimmers […]
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Publication: Students’ attitudes towards and experiences of the Youth-fit health-related fitness test battery
Research Impact: There is a scarcity of pragmatic experimental investigations examining the effects of specific changes to how physical education is delivered on the quality of the experience that students derive. Analysing students’ attitudes and […]
The Acute: Chronic Workload Ratio: A useful tool for monitoring training load – Alan Griffin
If you are a follower of some of the top researchers and practitioners in the field of strength and conditioning then it is likely that the above image from Gabbett (2016, p.278) has been a […]
A Citizen Science approach to monitoring powerful predictors of health? Brendan O’Keeffe
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime Citizen science is a very simple concept. It involves research carried […]
Determine meaningful changes in performance. Claire Brady
Laboratory and field based performance tests are an important element of athlete profiling. These tests allow coaches to identify strengths and weaknesses and design training programmes accordingly. Identifying a meaningful change in performance is therefore […]
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