All in Athletic Performance
In this podcast I talk with Dr. Ian Dunican, a Sleep Scientist and PhD holder with a thesis in Sleep and Performance in Elite Combat and Contact Athletes. Ian breaks down some of the science and how optimising sleep can affect your mind, body and performance.
Monitoring and managing fatigue is an important part of running the physical conditioning for a team sport, as well as helping to prevent injuries through making sure recovery is optimised, having a team fresh or fatigued for game day may also impact the final score line.
In this podcast we talk with professional Japanese Rugby Union team the Kintetsu Liners head Strength & Conditioning coach, Louis Dallimore. We look at injuries and prevention methods, performance testing, how to analyse GPS data & game metrics as well as current research connecting athletic profiling to on field performance.
There are many aspects to developing a Rugby Union player. When I initially profile and screen a new player, these are the first two things I ask myself: “Are they the right size for the job?” and “Are they strong enough to do the job?”
Strength training is common practice for athletes participating in high-intensity sports. This is due to the enhancement of attributes such as muscular development, neuromuscular acuteness & energy system efficiency. The question is.. would endurance athletes also benefit from strength training?
To understand why you need carbohydrates, it’s important to know their role in energy production. There are 3 processes tasked with providing fuel for your muscles. Two of them are anaerobic (alactic & lactic systems), while the third is the aerobic system.
The vertical jump (VJ) is a great potential gauge for athletic potential across many sports. Muscular factors associated with VJ such as force, power and the rate of force development can be likened to other athletic indicators.
The purpose of this literature review is to identify the physiological adaptations, directly resulting from strength training and their effect on anaerobic performance. The inclusion criteria are, full-text, peer reviewed journal articles within the last 15 years.
