Senior Lecturer in Sports & Exercise Biomechanics at Leeds Beckett University

Leeds, England
Joined October 2018
Do the effects last? A comparison between internal and external focus of attention instructions on golf putting accuracy over multiple days buff.ly/4d0fihg
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P&A Podcast #491 – Comparing Different Methods for Training the Action Capacity of Countermovement Jump (CMJ) Performance buff.ly/3Udkkz9
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P&A Podcast #490 – Understanding Sport Injury from a Dynamical Systems Approach buff.ly/3JvoxJx
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So glad to be back in TopSpin after all these years 🔥🔥
“Being in a tennis game, of course, it’s in my roots.” Watch motion capture help bring authenticity to @RogerFederer’s triumphant return to #TopSpin2K25
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Been going down a bit of a rabbit hole looking at sports injury from a dynamical systems perspective. Why does an innocuous action you have executed 1000’s of times (eg throwing a pitch) cause an injury this time and can we predict it? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2967…
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How effective are external cues and analogies in enhancing sprint and jump performance in academy soccer players? buff.ly/3unvYhU
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The question is not so much the 'what' but the 'how' (ie, how do these factors impact on performance). The answer is they alter the organisation and interaction of the DOF at different levels of analysis, most notably at the behavioural level sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
FACTORS THAT CAN IMPACT PERFORMANCE v4 I’ve split this into acute & chronic, and consider a wide range of “performance” - from endurance & ultra, to team sports & very short duration events.
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Tim Bennett retweeted
I learned this the hard way...! Most coaches & athletes don't care about the fancy analysis you used or the mechanisms activated... They mainly want to know how much something helps them.
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🚨 Do footwear or insoles reduce patellofemoral joint loads in people with or without patellofemoral pain or osteoarthritis? 🤔 👟 ✨Conclusion✨ - Minimalist footwear may reduce patellofemoral joint loads 📉 👉 bit.ly/3pTzPAN
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Perhaps an external focus of attention isn't necessarily superior for performance-related outcomes? Very interesting analysis of literature... sportrxiv.org/index.php/serv…
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New paper alert! 📚🧠 This review explores how electromyography has evolved from a measure of muscle activity to a neural recording and neural interfacing signal. Let's dive into the details! 👥D. Farina & @RogerEnoka sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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P&A Podcast #452 – WTF is an Uncontrolled Manifold?! w/ @PsychScientists buff.ly/3Aut4aC
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Tim Bennett retweeted
“Scanning” is the new buzz word in ⚽️ This has perpetuated a plethora of drills where players have to “check their shoulder” whilst passing in a prescribed sequence (back and forth, or a-b-c). Here is a short thread explaining why this doesn’t work IMO 👇
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Adopting a holistic focus of attention promotes adherence and improves performance in college track and field athletes buff.ly/3JtQwdl
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An applied model for using variability in practice buff.ly/3kRAbpd
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Some sage words here about the realities of working in performance sport and interacting with athletes and coaches.
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