Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes Sport science is NOT about the tech and gadgets. Invest time, effort and trust into your current and future staff! Building an educational “pipeline” of professional and volunteer interns may be one of THE best investments you can make in your staffing – it does require HIGH LEVEL and QUALITY of existing staff though.  Find head sport coaches that love to learn about training, integration and collaboration. THEY will be coming to you to work together on specific types of training. The post Innovat ..read more

Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes You do not need to be EARLY in a sport to make it far – particularly not in endurance. Start slowly building a base with ANY activity. Yet, if you happen to pick running, remember that the amount of impact forces requires more specific training than other endurance sports. Do not expect that training will be the same all the time. Slow endurance blocks, hard HIIT sessions, or a variety of environmental factors can be happening at different times along the way. This is a good thing, and you probably want to im ..read more

Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes Your coach should be more of a GUARDIAN ANGEL, not a trainer. If they have the same perspective and attitude as you, and come from the same backgrounds, you may quickly run into the problem of not covering your own blind spots very well. Be careful by surrounding yourself with “yes people”. The most important session is the NEXT IMPORTANT session. Many athletes would likely benefit more from RECOVERY protocols (preparation for their future sessions) rather than more extensive training protocols. The post ..read more

Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes You need to be somewhat of a generalist in the world of sports: whether you are in coaching, science, s&c or tech – it is becoming increasingly difficult to understand the interconnected aspects without the appropriate open mind and attitude towards it.  Get the BIG STONES in training and life done first – what are the fundamentals that MATTER the MOST? Ditch the rest, and keep at it every day. The post The POWER of the GENERALIST Sports EXPERT – with David Lipman & Prof. Paul Laursen appear ..read more

Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes our eyes are DECEIVING you: you can have up to 15 degrees or more of joint angles around where the body is. So be careful with movement and technique assessments, and try to measure these if you can. Get EXPERIENCE in sports you are not used to, and then FIND YOUR preferred niche – this way you will get the best of both worlds: specific expertise AND a large horizon! The post The Multi-Sport Practitioner; Patiently LISTENING and OBSERVING – with Christopher Chapman & Prof. Paul Laursen appeared first ..read more

Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes As we so often say: always DRIVE the research and your little (but IMPACTFUL!) science questions from the field. For this it is best to have “integrated” scientists, S&C and other practitioners. Environmental stress, especially HEAT, can be a very convenient way to build SPORT SPECIFIC FITNESS, but also adapt to your playing conditions. The post From Rugby 7 to Top 14 – 10 YEARS of ELITE S&C – with Dr Anthony Couderc & Dr Martin Buchheit appeared first on HiitScience ..read more

Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes Hockey athletes, like so many team sports athletes, are multi-directional and multi-skill athletes. You cannot just take another sport’s S&C (e.g. football) and transfer it 1 to 1.  What athletes PERCEIVE, aka their INPUTS, matters a lot for what they can physically do, especially if you are looking for movement quality. So you need to have the knowledge, skills & expertise to deal with the INPUT systems, including visual, vestibular and proprioceptive. The post The One Thing About Training ..read more

Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes You can only do SO MUCH by yourself, even for this “small” podcast it comes down to having a team, two incredible hosts & the best possible guests. Remember that it does not matter how small your team or your operation is, always try to SUPPORT your people the best you can. At the CORE of this podcast are all the GUESTS. Thank you to all of them for being transparent, honest & forthcoming with all the discussions and answers to our questions. What DRIVES us as practitioners is our daily work. Thus ..read more

Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes Football fitness IS part of football itself – there is no need for “balance”. Football fitness can be understood as the basic and fundamental ability to do more football “stuff” in the same period of time.  Do not go ahead and train running for the sake of training. Consider that RUNNING is only 1 way of executing decisions, AND it is only 1 part of football actions.  Match day +1 is complex: but make sure that it is FOOTBALL and GAME specific. Yes, even directly after the match, you need to think ..read more

Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes Across early age, development teams, academies, all the way to the main team, try to have ONE PATTERN of technology, protocols, assessments etc. – this streamlines the process, as well as generates early education and adherence.  INDIVIDUAL work can be easily implemented before or after group training sessions – even if it is ONLY a LITTLE BIT! Small commitment, high impact! The post Masterclass on Tactical Periodization in Football with João Ribiero and Martin Buchheit appeared first on HiitScience ..read more