Commendations to SENR Board Member & BDA Sports Nutrition Group Chair Sharon Madigan and her team Sport Ireland for an excellent conference, entitled 'Body Composition: More than just a number', delivered today, Sport Ireland Campus #HPX2023

Lead author Therese Mathisen is discussing our new best practice recommendations for body composition paper with Norwegian broadcasters 👇

🎙️Great podcast with Therese F. Mathisen and Jorunn SundgotBorgen talking through so practical scenarios summarising the key points of our best practice recommendations paper British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM)

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What you need to support training and competition will be more than most people think. This is why athletes can underestimate the amount of food needed. Improving education on the role food can play in injury prevention and recovery might help. bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

Peri-exercise protein supplementation reduces strength decrements and CK activity following resistance EIMD with no beneficial impact on muscle soreness @AGPNutrition @DrKarenHind Lindsay Macnaughton nature.com/articles/s4143…

So important to be talking about this

One final shout out for athletes from any sport, any level. Your experiences and views can add to valuable education which is needed in this for everyone involved in sport. If you had 10mins to complete we would be very grateful 🙏🏻

📢Sharing this - Looking for male and female athletes at all competitive levels to complete a short survey on body composition in sport. We want the athlete’s perspective so we can learn from their thoughts and experiences. Please complete the survey here: forms.office.com/e/zbb0hta4AN

📣Exciting opportunity to join our wonderful Dept of Sport & Exercise Sciences, Durham Uni. Durham University as an assistant/associate professor in the area of exercise physiology, kinesiology or related field durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

I want to take a moment on #InternationalWomensDay2024 to acknowledge my wonderful & inspiring Dept of Sport & Exercise Sciences, Durham Uni. colleagues 🤩Dr Caroline Dodd-Reynolds Cassandra Phoenix Toni Williams Stacey Pope Hester Hockin-Boyers Sue Bock Rebecca Strong Katie, Annisa, Ryan, Amy, Faith, Lisa, Sarah, Carolyn

A great resource for athletes, coaches, sports, teachers, practitioners published British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) blogs. Great team work by Danielle_Logue Anthropometry Irl SJ cullen Martina McCarthy OLY Lindsay Macnaughton Valerie Hayes Eimear Dolan Jo Anne Browne blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2024/05/0…

Resource to raise awareness, start and support productive conversations around how we can shift some practices around body composition in sport Sharon Madigan Anthropometry Irl Danielle_Logue Martina McCarthy OLY Valerie Hayes Eimear Dolan Jo Anne Browne Luisa Pereira Vargas Durham University Dept of Sport & Exercise Sciences, Durham Uni.

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Final touch to the Keynote presentation for the ISAK conference, shared with Lindsay Macnaughton 👌We are very happy to see the interest for the #Bodycomposition Assessment Best Practice Guidelines designed by our Research group 👊🏻 #paradigmshift #sport #REDs #isak2024

Wonderful to see how our literature review findings on impact of #bodycomposition in athletes for performance serves as a fundament for new knowledge acquisition 👌 #isak2024

The message is clear after interviewing athletes on experiences from #bodycomposition assessment in sport; there is a need for better procedures and a change in some sports culture. ☝🏻Adapt and follow Best Practice Guidelines for BC assessment ! -wonderful study by Katrina Gibbon

Thank you Nicola Brown and James Fleming PhD for inviting us to the ISAK Global conference to present the IOC New Best Practice Guidelines for #bodycomposition assessment 🇬🇧👌

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Reflecting back on #ISAK24 ISAK Global co-presenting Best Practice Recs for Body Comp in sport bmj.com at the keynote session on day 2 with my wonderful colleague Therese F. Mathisen. Thanks again to Nicola Brown & James Fleming PhD for the invite Durham University Dept of Sport & Exercise Sciences, Durham Uni.