Impact statement: Within elite-level swimming, the Olympic Games are the pinnacle of the sport. Happening once every four years, the Olympic Games are proceeded and succeeded by a FINA World Long Course Championships. Therefore, within […]
Tag: Performance
Training Load Monitoring in Swimming – Lorna Barry.
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 […]
Wannabe a Game Changer ?
Many reading this will have watched the Nexflix doc ‘The Game Changers’. It serves as an exemplar of the populist pseudoscience that often surrounds sports performance and verifies UL’s approach to the pursuit of Sport […]
Its time to play: discussing circadian rhythm and esport performance – Tim Smithies
Human performance is not constant throughout the day. Many decades of research now have demonstrated that human performance (as is the case with just about every human process) follows a ~24hour ‘circadian’ rhythm. This research […]
MISSING TRAINING LOAD IN TEAM SPORTS: ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES – Alan Griffin
Monitoring training load (TL) is common practice in team sports with most practitioners using the data to aid training prescription and design. However, these practitioners will know the difficulty and frustration associated with achieving compliance […]
A need for speed: importance of sprint microdosing during isolation – Evan Crotty
We need to do the work now, to prepare for what’s to come The majority of team-sports involve fast movements, change of direction and high activation levels of the neuromuscular system. Producing high levels of […]
An Educational Programme for the parents of elite athletes – Gary Ryan
I along with Dr. Giles Warrington and Dr. Ciaran MacDonncha, recently attended the latest meeting of the EMPATIA project (Education Model for Parents of Athletes in Academia). The project is an ERASMUS + Sport funded […]
Fighting Fit; making weight in amateur boxing – Dr. Catherine Norton & Daniel Breen
Amateur boxing is Ireland’s most successful Olympic sport with 360 registered clubs and approximately 16,500 members. Athletes are divided by body weight into a specific weight division with the primary aim of matching competitors of […]
Publication: Salivary IgA as a Predictor of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections and Relationship to Training Load in Elite Rugby Union Players
Research Impact: Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URTI) are among the most common illnesses that are reported in athletes. Contracting an URTI may increase the chance of athletes missing training days, which may lead to performance […]
Publication: Effects of increased training volume during a 10 day training camp on competitive performance in national level youth swimmers
Research Impact Summary: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of increased training volume during a 10 day training camp on competitive performance and internal training load (ITL). In addition, coach and […]
