Big facts guy. Views expressed are my own & rarely proofread, sorry 🇨🇦
Calgary, Alberta
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Organizations with great "Culture", simply have a clear purpose, aligned standards of behaviour, and a leadership team that understands their role. Great coaches are then accountable officers of the essential standards & principles that we see play out within their teams.
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Lovely summary of the evidence available for the different recovery methods & mechanisms available from @ShonaHalson
Unfortunately social media is making the top of this pyramid the most popular despite the lack of evidence
V. diff effects of acute v long term use
A great study and good evidence to be considering maturation within talent id/development pathways.
Great post by @DrSianAllen. Important for volleyball clubs these days to realize that we are a late specialization sport. Don’t force kids to choose at younger levels.
“it is difficult to accept that the best learning road is slow, and that doing poorly now is essential for better performance later. It is so deeply counterintuitive that it fools the learners themselves” - David Epstein
A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition because familiarity is not easily distinguished from the truth.
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Living longer/better doesn’t require a complicated routine.
-don’t smoke
- don’t drink more than 5/week
- move
- move more
- keep moving
- push and pull heavy things
- sleep
- have friends
- find something that motivates you to get out of bed in the morning.
- eat food that you prepare. Ignore most of the nutritional noise online.
- maintain a normal blood pressure
- maintain a normal ApoB
- maintain a normal A1c
- don’t like cold plunges.. good, avoid them. Don’t buy the nonsense.
- if you don’t start w the above, then the supplements you take are irrelevant.
- are you optimizing the above? No? Then rapa isn’t going to do much either.
- tracking your sleep? Maybe that’s making your sleep worse.
- feel better when you see a high “recovery” score? Feel worse if you don’t? Yep… ignore these black box algorithm scores. They’re nonsense.
Simple strategies work.
Longevity Simplified ;-)
howardluksmd.com/book/
Pops strikes again. This is why I love this guy: espn.com/nba/story/_/id/3613…
“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight.” - Daniel Kahneman.
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I worked with @Dan_Cottrell at @RugbyCoachWeek to outline a clear distinction for coaches between sessions aimed improving performance and those aimed at improving learning, and when each type of session could be useful. You can find it here: rugbycoachweekly.net/rugby-c… 1/2
Turned out as well as I thought it might, sadly: sportsnet.ca/nba/nash-figure…
I'm a massive @SteveNash fan but IMO not even a 2x MVP should be trying to fill their "coaching itch" as an NBA head coach. Playing experience is an accelerant but not a hall pass. I take lots of flight but I'm no pilot. Respect the craft.
espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2980…
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Volleyball coach friend has a magic trick when testing vertical jump:
He instructs the players to go faster on the next attempt and voila their numbers improve... 🪄🧙♂️
Depth and velocity matter for countermovement jump assessment metrics (including jump height) 👇
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Almost there! Seeking 2 more athletes to speak w/ me about their menstrual cycle
📧[email protected]
Must be:
🇨🇦 athlete (but could be competing abroad)
🏆Competing at a high level (Varsity/Pro-am/Professional or equivalent)
Birth control use & cycle regularity doesn’t matter
Kinesiology researchers @UCalgary are looking for female athletes 18+ to participate in an interview for a research study. Contact [email protected]. #sportscience #research #WomenInSport
ALT Researchers at the University of Calgary are looking for female athletes who are 18 years of age or older to participate in an interview for a research study. Contact [email protected]
“You don’t play dodgeball with injuries, you attack performance”. My favourite quote from @tracyablake’s masterful lecture to the UBC 500K injury prevention class. Thanks friend for imparting so much wisdom. #bestinthebiz
Great work Luca!
Ever wondered how volleyball athletes change jumping strategy with performance on consecutive days (e.g., international competitions)? Our new paper is ahead of print @IJSPPjournal! Great thanks to @SamEbata @Kerryjmac @tavisbruce @johnwarmenhoven Mark Klimstra & Chris McNeil
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You need to watch your step. Really proud of what the @kinetyx team is building. All of us @nextventuresvc glad to be along for the ride, err, run. youtu.be/BucU84iv1IE
Some of what we’re up to @kinetyx
We’re breaking down the walls of traditional laboratories with Kinetyx Lab. Motion sensing IMUs paired with a pressure array provide researchers an incredibly unique data set.
youtube.com/watch?v=BucU84iv…
#kinetyx #remainmoved #forceunderfoot #sensoryinsoles #sportscience #data
