What is the (main) Role of an Applied Scientist within Elite Sport?

24hours to go on this poll. Interested in people's views on the role of an applied scientist in elite sport. It would also be great to hear comments & examples of "Other", irrespective of how sarcastic some of them might be! #NotAllGlamour #NotEverGlamour

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on the below question. Great spectrum of comments. 24hrs after posting, this webinar went up; uk.humankinetics.com/blogs/british-… (IMO) Dr Paul Barratt gives an excellent account of applied science practice within elite sport. Well worth a ⌚.👌

Incredible! 💨

If the limits of human achievement interest you, #FreeSolo is a gripping docu-film (pun intended). Tommy Caldwell summarised it perfectly: 'it's like competing at the Olympics for Gold, but if you don't win the Gold, you die.' Serious #HumanPerformance freesolofilm.co.uk

Bit late to this (deadline is Monday 23rd Sep), but this post-doc looks EPIC! Really look forward to reading the 📄📃📄📈📉 of this in a few years... 🇿🇦🚴🤙

Nice Conor Taylor PhD. That nomination is a very liberal use of the term "coach" [face]. I was surprised I had any pics to share of myself, but found a few looking back. Now then, let's expect some proper coaching faces from: Simon Watts @spbarrett9 Joe Hewitt & Tom Stanton

In the same week @DrMarkBurnley and colleagues publish this elegant and important research (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32366801/?from…), he also distills the pursuit of #HumanPerformance succinctly into five words. #Span #Brevity

For the sake of Sport & Health Science, I can't help feel this excellent review should be mandatory reading (yearly) across all educational programmes (BSc, MSc, PhD etc.) Chapeau Nick Jamnick and team 👏👏

This #WorldRecord enters it's 5th year today. Testament to the quality of this #OlympicGold ride at #Rio2016 4:10.236 What a #Team What a #Journey What a #Pleasure Good ingredients, sound methods, #Exceptional result 🥇 (youtu.be/0Z2A2yiBQM8)

As we face the worst crisis for children since WW2 due to coronavirus, I’m asking Dominic Raab to safeguard the UK's long-term commitment to 0.7% #UKAid. Government must set out how it will protect children & their futures. Join me & UNICEF UK in tweeting and help #SaveUKAid💙

#OnThisDay Archibald Hill died. He was a British #physiologist for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles. His research helped establish the origin of muscular force in the breakdown of carbohydrates with formation of lactic acid in the muscle.

**New Research Study** Did you lift weights (>80% 1RM) during your pregnancy? If yes… we need your help! 💪🏽 We are trying to understand how, if, when you modified your exercises. We also want to know about your labor and delivery. 🤰 Interested? Click redcap.link/weightliftingd…

The WR that stood for a record-breaking duration has gone, just shy of 5-years Joe Hewitt Dr Deborah Newton Kathryn Brown Joanna Rowsell MBE OLY 👋 goodbye old 🇬🇧4:10.236 friend 🚨 🇩🇪 Team Pursuit WR:4:07.307👏 Chapeau 🇩🇪. More 🎆 to come...👀 #CyclingTrack #Tokyo2020 #Olympics

Priviliege to have contributed to HPCJC support of 🇯🇵 🥈 in the [W]Omnium at #Tokyo2020 Many behind the performances this #Olympics but BigUp Dr Kieta Shirasaki, Tadashi Hashimoto & Ryota Nishizono -Key #PerformanceScience figures👊 Otsukaresama deshita 👋 #CyclingTrack

After reading this: bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics… "...can't train properly" stood out to me. "properly" is surely a shifting sand and defined by belief (john kiely excellently describes here: shows.acast.com/realscienceofs…) Where there's a will... #PerformanceScience

📢 #ShotsFired And very eloquent, and highly accurate shots at that! The first 📌🔨 in the ⚰️... 👀

📢 #MoreShots An honour to 🔨 nails into this ⚰️ with Matthew Black James Spragg & Richie Goulding Difficult job selecting only two or three (of the many) issues to address, But we nail some essential and fundamental problems here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… 👊

A typically excellent podcast from @DrMarkBurnley getting into the speed-/power-duration relationship across various animals. A particular highlight; "...you can put a [pulmonary gas exchange] mask on a bird, but it's really hard to get a seal..." #PunIntended? 👏

Simply legendary ✨ With two UCI World Champion titles🥇🌈 Julie Norman Leth wrapped up her career in style in front of her home crowd 🇩🇰 at the 2024 Tissot UCI Track World Championships 🤩 #Ballerup2024 #TrackCycling