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Do you love sports performance, but feel like keeping up-to-date is impossible!? The answer? The Performance Digest. scienceforsport.com/become-m…
Moving Beyond Aerobic and Anaerobic Training Labels with @mrjamesdelacey
James makes his case for sprint interval sessions and why conditioning needs to complement the technical work athletes do.
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Andrew Trigg, Lecturer, Coach and Researcher in cognitive performance and decision-making, delivers this mini-course, with these slides adapted directly from Andrew's material.
To learn about this cognitive side of sport with Andrew, click the link.
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Preparing Athletes for Pressure and Adversity with Dr Nick Holton
- Anti-fragility versus resilience/robustness.
- Visualisation for tough circumstances.
- Responding to anger versus pressure.
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In episode 69, @WSWayland, Performance Coach to pro golfers, spoke to us about why Strength & Conditioning has grown in golf, what players should be doing in the gym, and how to plan training around being on the course.
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Body Composition does not differentiate international female players from non-international players. Technical and tactical differences likely distinguish players chosen to represent their country.
Click below to see October's Performance Digest.
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Can AI help predict lower-limb injury risk? Well, it was poor at predicting whether a player would sustain a non-contact lower-limb injury in this new study. To read about figures from the study on AI's injury prediction rates, click the link below.
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A mini-course delivered by @James_Morehen
Here are some numbers from just two of eight modules:
🔋 Physiological and metabolic demands of injuries
🙋♀️ Individualised energy requirements during injury
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Dr Nick Holton joins @RichardGraves1.
With his work focusing on human flourishing- supporting performance alongside wellbeing and fulfilment, Nick talks about preparing athletes for pressure and adversity in ep. 341.
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Our Sports Data Analyst Cert keeps the role itself a priority of the teaching material.
This means you actually learn how to do the job.
@ArianF14, @RCWhite93 and Benjamin Klein teach the most effective tips and tricks they use in elite sport.
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Episode 340 - Marlon Millard, a chemist working in elite sport, tells us about saliva versus blood testing, frequent testing for athlete baselines, and where biomarker data fits into athlete testing.
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@RichardGraves1
Data in Football
Aman Singh Shergill is a Sports Scientist at a Premier League club.
What does he use the data for?
Which data points does he collect?
How does he communicate it to players and coaches?
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Some key excerpts from a review by @Cody__Roberts on the Rebound CMJ.
With a reactive component involved, it changes the actions required by the nervous system and lower body.
The full review, plus nine more, are in the October Performance Digest.
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We all know it, but we still use it anyway.
Pre-training, even during training if it's within a gym-based setting.
The education is interesting, but it's always the action that actually makes a difference.
Click the link to read the full piece.
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We're excited to share a new partnership between Science for Sport and ESSA, providing greater access to discounted learning and professional development for ESSA members. Over the next year, we'll be co-developing three new courses together.
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What Saliva Testing Can Tell Us About Athletes
Marlon Millard, a chemist who works on applying multi-biomarker testing in elite sport, joins @RichardGraves1 to hat saliva can and cannot reveal in athletes.
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Andrew Trigg, Lecturer, Coach and Researcher in cognitive performance and decision-making, delivers this mini-course, with these slides adapted directly from Andrew's material.
To learn about this cognitive side of sport with Andrew, click the link.
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The October issue of the Performance Digest is now live. Here are the editors' top picks. Swipe left for some of the other topics that are covered in the reviews.
Click the link below for access to this issue.
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Ep. 339 with Prof. John Sorochan and Alan Thomson:
- How do playing surfaces influence movement?
- The difference between each surface
- Surfaces at the 2026 FIFA World Cup
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In episode 57 of the Science for Sport podcast, @AdamMeakins joined us to discuss what S&C coaches can learn from physios, and vice versa.
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Caffeine: what actions does it actually help football players with, and how much should they have?
@James_Morehen tells us in this new review from the October 2026 issue of the Performance Digest.
Click the link below.
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