Big words, thought provoking logic!
Sometimes the things we take for granted shouldn’t be.
Sometimes the things we take for granted shouldn’t be.
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 […]
1108 words: estimated reading time 5 mins 30s Who’s Bad?One of my closest colleagues would periodically confess to having been bad. She wasn’t reporting on her poor behaviour; she was simply owning up to having eaten a Snickers bar (or something similar). Each time I’d argue that she was actually neither good nor bad and […]
1448 words; estimated reading time: 7 mins, 14 sec For exercise professionals, fatigue is an intriguing phenomenon that remains poorly understood. Fatigue has been defined in so many ways that consistent explanations and interpretations are rare. For example, exhaustion (the inability to continue exercising at any intensity) is often used interchangeably with fatigue (a temporary […]
924 words ~ 4 mins, 37 secs to read I’ve been working on a chapter for our strength and conditioning book that focuses on fatigue, and I’m struggling with it! I decided that sharing some of my thoughts over the next few blogs might help clear my thinking….. fingers crossed! When it comes to developing […]
I set up this 10th man blog with the hope that it might appeal to exercise professionals. So, when I contemplate what to write next, I obviously start thinking about exercise professionals which usually takes me off on another tangent – the thing is I’m not really certain what defines an exercise professional! So I […]
(March 26, 2018) After a few years of working with elite, well-trained athletes, it started dawning on me that we all seemed to be caught up in some kind of bizarre ‘arms race’ of strength and conditioning. All around me it was more, more, more. In the rugby world, coaches wanted players to be bigger, […]