New Blog Post: Why we need to rethink using bar graphs by Jo Clubb inspired by @T_Weissgerber Includes work by Israel Halperin Heidi Compton (Thornton) Alice Sweeting Matt Cross @SimonAvrillon ᴍᴀʀᴛɪɴ ʙᴜᴄʜʜᴇɪᴛ Mathieu Lacome #DataVisualization #SportScience sportsdiscovery.net/journal/2020/0…

New blogpost alert! The relation between load and injury risk. Important but complex!⚠️ You can read the full blog post here: ow.ly/sm5150Ap6sg

Buying a professional football team? Ten lessons learned. Interesting series of columns written by Alexander Janssen. offthepitch.com/a/column-buyin…

A unique collaboration🤝w’ 18 teams from Europe’s Big 5⚽️ Leagues ‘Exercise-Based Strategies to Prevent Muscle Injury in Male Elite Footballers: An Expert-Led Delphi Survey’ Huge🙏🏼to all experts involved who shared their time, knowledge& experience👇👀 rdcu.be/b5FxG

Two interesting perspectives on the use of data in high performance sport coaching. informedinsport.com/new-blog/speci… simplifaster.com/articles/artif…

"I think our role, as sports scientist, will be to find way to help staff to spend more time coaching by reducing testing & analysis burden while providing more insights to help them adapt their training. It is a hard task. But science is not easy."

In our new blog, we discuss the ability of current load models to predict training outcomes such a performance and injury. Happy reading! ow.ly/lyQs50BtEvP

Research can be viewed as slow and time-consuming but these days a lot of interesting research is published. Since October we have been making a monthly overview of new research articles. This was our first list: topsportslab.com/state-of-sport…

Several factors affect players’ readiness to perform. But do we provide sufficient attention to all these factors? A short opinion of our blog writer and PhD student, Kobe Houtmeyers. topsportslab.com/athlete-monito…

Our monthly research overview (the November edition) Age-specific velocity thresholds, change of direction frequency during match-play, the economic aspects of injury prev and one of our own TSL studies! topsportslab.com/latest-footbal…

We highlighted a lot of research on sprint training in our football science overview of December. The studies contain interesting implications for injury prevention, performance enhancement and data analysis! topsportslab.com/latest-footbal…

Bio-banding ... The menstrual cycle and performance ... Video-based hamstring injury pattern detection ... Read our football science overview of January to find out the latest insights! topsportslab.com/latest-footbal…

Post-match recovery - This new study shows the recovery practices applied in Portuguese professional football teams. Nice to see that sleep and nutrition are perceived most important. Don't forget the basics! journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/…

Based on the 'fuel for the work' concept, this new study translates insights from load monitoring into guidelines for carbohydrate intake. A clear colour-coded framework is presented (red, amber, green) for different weekly scenarios (one or two matches). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We present our football science overview of February. It includes information about resilience, long-haul travel, glucose monitoring and a framework for managing medical emergencies. topsportslab.com/latest-footbal…

In 2015, Michael Bush and colleagues described the evolution of match running outputs in the Premier League (2006 and 2013). A group of Spanish researchers now analysed running outputs in La Liga (2012 and 2019). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In one of our previous blog posts, we discussed the formula of the fitness-fatigue model. topsportslab.com/monitoring-the… Interested in more? Read this new open access article of Kobe Vermeire and colleagues! journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/…

Nutrition plays an important role in training adaptation. In this blog post, we highlight the need for structured support programmes to optimise football players’ nutritional habits. topsportslab.com/fuel-for-the-w…

In this research overview, we highlight articles about postmatch recovery, carbohydrate periodisation, physical match demands and the fitness-fatigue model topsportslab.com/latest-footbal…

We are happy to present our newly published study in which we explore the link between running and jumping impacts and differential RPE! topsportslab.com/the-link-betwe…