The IUSCA is proud to announce that Manchester Metropolitan University’s MSc in Strength and Conditioning has been awarded prestigious Degree Accreditation by IUSCA. Manchester Metropolitan Uni Manchester Met Institute of Sport Read More⬇️ iusca.org/post/mancheste…

We were delighted to officially launch the Centre of Excellence for Women in Sport, bringing together athletes, coaches, researchers and practitioners to celebrate our global hub for research and education in female health and performance. 🙌 🔗bit.ly/3ZpE8BI.

Interesting article in the latest The Sport and Exercise Scientist (@basesuk) titled "Research funding in sport and exercise sciences following REF2021, lessons learned and preparations for REF2029" by Bill Baltzopoulos.

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I mark in my mind much more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by

A pretty damning first five years of Brexit, quantified here rather neatly.

We're delighted to share that we will be the host of the 2027 Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science! The ECSS Congress will see us welcoming around 3000 sport and exercise scientists from around the globe to our campus and city.

Zone 2 training in professional football or in general team sports, a nice controversial topic as not much studied on this on a higher quality scale. I think one part of this also is that there is not really agreement of how to determine thresholds (for example mathematical vs

Polarised🆚Pyramidal🆚Threshold Which training model is best?🏆 It might matter how trained you are🤔 Our new meta-analysis tries to answer which training intervention produces the greatest improvements in endurance performance in trained athletes Thread🧵 & 🔗links below👇

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New analysis on the effects of heat and humidity on marathon performance!

🔥 Funded PhD alert! 🔥 Together with Burnley FC Women, we Manchester Met Institute of Sport Manchester Metropolitan Uni are offering a unique PhD embedded in full-time women’s football. Supervisory team: 💡 Naomi Datson 💡 TomDosSantos 💡 Dale Read PhD 💡+ me 🗓️Deadline: 27th June 2025 Links to apply👇

Endurance athletes and coaches, how do we find a legit max HR for "intensity calibration" purposes? Here is some great (and underappreciated, or purposefully ignored) data on this question: youtu.be/lmB5cTOWCbs?si…

Funded PhD position in women's football Together with Burnley FC Women, we Manchester Met Institute of Sport Manchester Metropolitan Uni are offering a unique embedded PhD Deadline: Friday 27th June See below for full details mmu.ac.uk/study/postgrad… Georgina Stebbings Naomi Datson Tom Dos'Santos

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Great to see our recent publication questioning the appropriateness of traditional kick off times featured in this import BBC report. Full paper: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

You've probably seen headlines: High-Intensity Training is superior to easy aerobic running. But dig deeper and you'll notice a pattern: most of these studies are short: just 4 to 8 weeks. A recent review tells a fuller story. In the early weeks, HIT and Sprint Interval

Explore #combatsport science with Dale Read PhD, Georgina Stebbings, Sam Barraclough and @AdamKirkwood99 at 'Beyond the Fight: The Science of Combat Sport’. They'll be presenting on ‘Translating science into strikes: evidence-based training in taekwondo.’🥋 20 September: t.ly/4NRH7

So many “influencers,” “optimizers,” and “wellness” gurus don’t have partners, kids, or really any obligations outside of themselves. They sell optimization, purity, and perfectionism, but anyone who is actually in the arena knows true greatness is a distinctly human and

here are different sports on a continuum of sprint-endurance, and strength-speed v2 It’s meant for visual comparison & some sports required development in all areas. But try to see these relative to the other sports on the chart - and that might help with interpretation.

The most important rule in training is also the least dramatic: be consistent. It doesn’t sell books or rack up likes. But it’s the one thing that makes everything else possible.