I came across an interesting research paper (Mickelwright et al., 2023) that got me thinking about exercise intensity and effort. The authors predicted that as we stepped up the intensity of exercise and the physical or psychophysiological effort demands of that activity increased, there would be an involuntary shift away from being able to attend […]
Deep into the Olympics and getting reacquainted with the elation and agony of competition, I started obsessing about measurement. Noah Lyles grabbing 100m gold by five thousandths of a second – Wow! I’m not sure that margin was even measurable three Olympics ago. Fixated, I wanted to think about events where distance, time and finishing […]
Habits are things that we supposedly do automatically without much thought – Is that what we really want?
Rugby’s introduction of instrumented mouth guards to detect potential concussion has to be one of the dumbest examples of ‘spin’, ‘box ticking’ and doubling down on a dubious idea. From my vaguely informed perspective, this initiative was wrong on a number of levels, so I am going to jump in ‘boots and all’ possibly making […]
Sometimes the things we take for granted shouldn’t be.
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In these blogs I’ve shared situations where I have erred professionally. My weak defence has been that I didn’t know any better at the time! By delving into and contemplating different areas of research, I’ve been able to reflect on and reinterpret many of my experiences – good and bad, and I’ve shared those with my […]
Did Covid affect exercise trends? Although it has its critics, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) is recognised internationally as the leading organisation for exercise and fitness professionals. Since 2006, this body has conducted an annual survey of health and fitness professionals working in or around the fitness industry – all to explore industry […]
I stumbled across this the other day thinking it might be useful as we work our way out of another lockdown. Swearing or cursing are frowned on as a form of communication, but there may be some redeeming qualities of cussing. Ljung (2011) swears that the Ancient Egyptians were the first recorded swearers, documenting donkey-based […]
Closed Chain Exercises Minds 1139 words – estimated reading time: 4 min, 56 sec Full disclosure, this is an ‘I told you so’ blog. Despite my ongoing rants and critiques, I’ve rarely been proven right – sigh!!!. Back in the late 1980s and early 90s most of my work was in exercise rehabilitation. I loved […]