Fun is arguably the most over-used and commonly misinterpreted term in youth sport. Everyone agrees that youth sport should be fun, but what does that actually mean in practice..? 🤔

Timely ego check for those of us who work with sports injuries... “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” ― Voltaire

Prodigious talent - not only qualifying for 400m finals at USA trials as a junior but placing 6th with 3rd consecutive sub-45 second 400m in the final. (for context, his times recorded over past few days are a full second faster than 3rd ranked GB athlete). He's 16 years old...

Take a bow, Coach Danny Mackey...

Kudos Jennifer Joyce and rest of the staff behind the Canadian womens rugby sevens team. Epic performances taking out hosts in the QF and medal favourites Australia in the semi final before running reigning champs NZ close in the final to win Olympic silver medal

Congratulations coach Mike Schofield and the rest of the team on epic performance - great series and held gold medal position until final round with PB in Olympic final. Richly deserved silverware🥈

Some tough female track and field athletes on display in #Paris2024 19-year old Angelina Topic competed on what was later discovered to be a fractured ankle and still made Olympic high jump final. Adrianna Sulek completed Olympic heptathlon only months after giving birth in Feb

'We've been teaching glycolysis wrong for a hundred years' George Brooks is arguably the greatest living pioneer of sports science. An absolute gift for anybody interested in human physiology in general and coaches and practitioners concerned with training athletes in particular

The many ways that watching Paris 2024 has the potential to be a powerful and even formative experience for kids who might be future Olympians...

We need to dedicate time and effort to developing physical capacities and athletic capabilities if kids are to survive and ultimately thrive on their youth sports journey...

Check out this #ArticlesInPress, Persistent physiological benefits from doping? Ethical implications for sports integrity Pedro L. Valenzuela, et al. ow.ly/pC2V50T6SK3 #JAPPL

Checks out Mike Schofield ..?

Curious how different training intensities and volumes affect mitochondrial growth, capillaries, and VO2max?🚴 Check out our new meta-regression, free to access in Sports Medicine! 📖 Team effort with good friends Knut Sindre Mølmen & Nicki Win(gate)field Almquist 💪 Link: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"Coaches need to provide some consistency in their drill selection to afford athletes the opportunity to experiment, try different strategies and see what works. We shouldn’t change drills incessantly" Paul Gamble PhD sportsmith.co/articles/pilla…

Key considerations and some principles to help parents with a strategy to ensure that the resources they invest in their kid's youth sports participation actually benefit their long-term development 👇 Full read free to access via linktree in bio

Overlooked lesson from recent scandals involving national sports organisations is the imperative of recruiting good people. Takes character and integrity to stand up when it matters. Promoting conformity makes it more likely they'll go along and rationalise unethical behaviour

📢Big news! Readers' favourite 'Informed', originally published in 2018, is now available in audiobook format! 🔊 Head to audible and discover the 'guidebook' for coaches and practitioners seeking to navigate the complexities of real-world practice

Informed Practitioner in Sport Keenan Robinson Ben Davies A book I go back to again and again! x.com/EamonnFlanagan…

Can we help aspiring young performers find a healthy expression of their perfectionist tendencies? Are there aspects that are functional and adaptive? Can we make perfectionism a game worth playing? TLDR - the answer is 'yes' to all of the above. Full read via linktree in bio

📢Big news! Sports Parenting (originally released in 2022) is now available in audiobook format from audible 🔉 Important development to help reach the book's intended audience in a format that allows them to consume the content alongside their busy lives