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 […]
760 words estimated reading time 3 minutes, 48 sec. Following on from my last blog – something else that caught my attention researching and writing our book was the concept of training effort and intensity. I was reading back through some interviews that I’d conducted with college (university) strength and conditioning coaches in the US […]
930 words; reading time around 4 minutes, 30 seconds. I’m back, albeit sheepishly – heck, my last blog was over 4 months ago! To those who make the effort to visit this site and read my blogs – thank you so much. I apologise for the lull. I haven’t quit, just distracted and otherwise engaged. […]
1234 words; estimated reading time: 6 minutes, 10 seconds. The social merits of physical activity are widely recognised. In fact, exercising in the company of others seems to be a really powerful motivator for exercise engagement across our lifespans. Sure, some people prefer to work out in solitude, lost in their thoughts, the calming scenery […]
The flawed touch of geniuses 1900 words; reading time ~ 9 mins, 30 secs. …or should that be the touch of flawed geniuses?An emerging obsession in strength and conditioning has been the challenge of regulating an athletes’ exercise stress and recovery balance. The apparent solution has been to harness science and technology and measure/monitor either […]
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 […]
[ Sit down and prepare yourself for a little heresy. Just for a moment, can you take what you know, think and believe and leave it in this tray. Don’t worry it’s safe there and you’ll be able to pick it up on your way out. Our topic is size (muscle size) and it’s relationship […]
Although my academic interest in sports injuries goes back a long way I only really started thinking about return-to-play (RTP) practices after attending my club’s 125th anniversary. There I trailed one of my old teammates into a function; he was only a couple of years older than me but much bigger and stronger, and way […]
In all of the exercise professions, our work is largely based on a theoretical framework that I’ve always known simply as ‘The Principles of Exercise’ (POE). The POE offer us a logical and convenient means of explaining how and why we develop fitness and suggest a rationale for planning and structuring exercise and training programmes. […]