If you’re a sport sci or S&C coach interested in understanding the possible magnitude of change specific to different aspects of physical performance rather than using arbitrary ES thresholds not designed for S&C, please read our meta-analysis of 679 intervention studies 👀⬇️⬇️

Sad to leave such a great club but opportunities like this don’t come along every day. Can’t wait to get started in the new year NSW Waratahs

Tah Time! Pumped to have started with NSW Waratahs a few months ago. Excited for the challenge ahead and to work with a great coaching group and Nick Lumley

Work in professional sport & interested in a self-funded PhD? Interested in practical real-world optimization of heat acclimation/acclimatization &/or cooling for elite sport training & competition? Details: tinyurl.com/3fbfdfzs Previous projects: tinyurl.com/u3j9kzhx

Callum McRae at Edinburgh Rugby has not only crafted one of the best defences in European rugby this year. They are the only team in the 43 in the main European leagues to have fewer than half (49%) their total penalties come in defence. Next lowest is Stade with 55%.

NSW Waratahs announce partnership with Fitness Outcomes. 🤝 Read more: bit.ly/3uX9kuv #fortheloveofrugby #reset22 💙🏉

Alan Couzens Easy days must be easy, hard days must be hard. It that stuff in between that will kill you

Electric from the NSW Waratahs ⚡️ #SuperRugbyPacific

End of my first super rugby season NSW Waratahs Looking forward to pre season

22 years ago I wrote an article a The Coach (Cev Magazine) to present how I used the F/V and P/V relationship to assess players and plan their programmes when I was an S&C coach. Interesting to see now how some think it is new. #22yearsago

We’re looking for an S&C coach NSW Waratahs to head up the academy S&C programme. Big opportunity for someone in one of biggest academies in Australia.. sportspeople.com.au/jobs/72990-war…

Great opportunity for a physio to come join NSW Waratahs working across mens and womens super teams and the academy 👇🏼👇🏼 sportspeople.com.au/jobs/73641-nsw…

Riots in Bath.

The moment Dougie Fife and Scottish Rugby made history in London! #StAndrewsDay | #London7s

We know that fat oxidation is beneficial for performance, but how does it actually work? For a long time I struggled to understand the mechanisms behind this important phenomenon. Here's what I learnt along the way. A 🧵

I echo Nick Lumley’s thoughts here. I think Strength Training & Coordination was a v. important book, w. many valuable lessons for coaches. BUT — there’s still a big place for traditional strength training, esp. in speed-power sports

Rugby Championship: Round 1 Expected Scores RSA: 39.1 vs AUS: 8.6 ARG: 18.2 vs NZL: 61 #RugbyChampionship | #RSAvAUS | #ARGvNZL | #Rugby

Rugby Championship: Round 2 Expected Scores NZL: 29.6 vs RSA: 20.2 AUS: 22 vs ARG: 42 #RugbyChampionship | #AUSvARG | #NZLvRSA | #rstats

Freezing your gains 🥶 Cold water immersion [CWI] post-exercise (15 min at 10°C) vs. Passive recovery Type I fiber hypertrophy CWI = 5% Passive recovery = 9% Type II fiber hypertrophy CWI = –4% Passive recovery = 23% pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31513450/

A thread (1) Do we make SandC too complicated for team sports? An example could be strength/force training for COD and Acceleration. Do we really need to focus on very different qualities? Initial thoughts would be can we actually use physical qualities to estimate COD and Accel?