Are rugby league players involved in more tackles than normal, prior to an injury sustained during a tackle event? Available now in Journal of Sports Sciences 📰 Big thanks to co-authors, reviewers and Carnegie School of Sport researchgate.net/publication/36… tandfonline.com/eprint/GVPZDCE…

Some sage words here about the realities of working in performance sport and interacting with athletes and coaches.

An applied model for using variability in practice buff.ly/3kRAbpd

Adopting a holistic focus of attention promotes adherence and improves performance in college track and field athletes buff.ly/3JtQwdl

“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 👇

P&A Podcast #452 – WTF is an Uncontrolled Manifold?! w/ Andrew D Wilson is now @adw.bsky.social buff.ly/3Aut4aC

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 & Roger Enoka sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Perhaps an external focus of attention isn't necessarily superior for performance-related outcomes? Very interesting analysis of literature... sportrxiv.org/index.php/serv…

🚨 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

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.

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/articl…

How effective are external cues and analogies in enhancing sprint and jump performance in academy soccer players? buff.ly/3unvYhU

The Fallacy of Single Trials: The Need for Multiple Trials in Assessing Running Economy Responses in Advanced Footwear Technology link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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/29674346/

Very pleased to get this one over the finish line! Thank you Andrew D Wilson is now @adw.bsky.social: Affordances for throwing: An uncontrolled manifold analysis dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

So glad to be back in TopSpin after all these years 🔥🔥

P&A Podcast #490 – Understanding Sport Injury from a Dynamical Systems Approach buff.ly/3JvoxJx

P&A Podcast #491 – Comparing Different Methods for Training the Action Capacity of Countermovement Jump (CMJ) Performance buff.ly/3Udkkz9

When the calf fatigues, the knee extensors do more work. journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/full…

Do the effects last? A comparison between internal and external focus of attention instructions on golf putting accuracy over multiple days buff.ly/4d0fihg