Great to be presenting at the ASCA conference this year. The online format provides a great platform for anyone to access, no matter where you are. Have a look at the range of presentations on offer

Some great practical work out of the ESSA Twitter conference #ESSTC20

KEY TAKE-HOME #1 🔑 "HRV proves a useful tool in monitoring the stress response and recovery from singular stressors in first responders and tactical operators." Sean Corrigan #ASCA_Conf #strengthandconditioning

KEY TAKE-HOME #2 🔑 "More research is required when looking at chronic assessment of HRV across programs and deployment, but there is some research showing links between HRV and allostatic load indicating a potential monitoring tool." Sean Corrigan #ASCA_Conf

KEY TAKE-HOME #3 "Increases in resting HRV have exhibited better decision-making performance in occupationally relevant tasks, but there still is a need for research to determine if within subject changes in HRV can be used as a predictive tool for decision making performance."

🗣️Presented @ Virtual Defence Human Sciences Symposium Deakin University..re: recovery #cognition post-training.👍session on #cognitive performance & enhancement; #research that will⬆️#capability of #defence personnel #DefenceScience //👏Luana Main Sean Corrigan Brad Aisbett Jace🙏

Great work Jamie, well deserved! 👏🏼👏🏼

New review suggests minimal doses of exercise for maintaining: 🚴‍♀️VO2max: 2 x/wk, volume ↓ up to 66%, intensity maintained 🏋️‍♀️1-RM strength: 1 x/wk, 1 set per ex, high int of effort 💪Muscle size: 1-2 x/wk, 1-3 sets per ex, high int of effort journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Abst…

1. We tracked heart rate variability in college football players from day 1 of preseason training through to the national championship. Some key findings & thoughts discussed in the thread below. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/…

Take a listen if you want to hear about the importance of sleep for athletes

Nice to get this #review on the use of HRV to monitor stress in first responders and tactical operators #published with the team in BMC Series Luana Main Spencer Roberts Dr Stuart Warmington Jace Open access for anyone to read - rdcu.be/cx1S1

I wore an Oura ring & a Whoop band on the same hand/wrist for ~12 months. Here's everything I found... 🧵 TLDR: - Whoop isn't accurate enough to be useful. I took it off. - Oura is better. I'm still wearing it. - Beware readiness/recovery scores - raw data are more insightful.

Circadian phenotype affects athletes' perceived exertion during training. Implications for... training prescription? Training adaptation? Michele Lastella @sleep_to_elite Dominique Condo Brad Aisbett mdpi.com/2624-5175/3/4/…

A great summary

I was wearing Oura, Whoop & Apple Watch when I got pregnant. One of these was FAR better than a pregnancy test... 🤔 Here's all my data from time of conception ⬇️

✍️💥Just published Are #testosterone #cortisol useful markers of physiological strain during military #training?🪫⚖️How do they respond during #recovery? Find out below 👇 🙏 Luana Main Jace Sean Corrigan & Jeremy Drake @plosone: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… #plosoneauthor

I recently had COVID. Nocturnal (Oura) & post-wake standing HRV showed highly divergent recovery patterns post-symptoms. This is problematic for guiding training. Here’s my attempt at interpreting the data & some current thoughts on “readiness” scores. hrvtraining.com/2022/06/28/sle…

Influence of the Thermal Environment on Work Rate and Physiological Strain during a UCI World Tour Multistage Cycling Race. Nice to have this one out in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise with Olivier Girard @Prof_MatWilson Jamie Stanley PhD Sam Tebeck and James Gilmore journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abst…

Still looking for someone interested in commencing a PhD in 2023 at the world ranked #1 sport science school! Deakin_ExSc

Deformed muscle fibres are a hallmark of ageing. Aged muscle fibres not only change in size - but in shape as well. This is likely due to non-recruitment of muscle fibres and: - Predicts measures of muscle function - Preferentially impacts type II muscle fibres - Can be