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Measurement properties in standardised soccer games
Measures of distance and "PlayerLoad" demonstrated good reliability on a group level across trials of standardised football training games
Jo Clubb
3 min read


Learning from Science Gone Astray
In "Why Trust Science?" Oreskes highlights five required themes to produce reliable knowledge. Each are discussed in relation to performance
Jo Clubb
7 min read


The Dark Side of Expertise: Cognitive Entrenchment
As you develop greater expertise, you have the potential to become entrenched in your thinking. How do you avoid cognitive entrenchment?
Jo Clubb
5 min read


Training Load: Science or Semantics?
One group propose the terms load and training load breach “principles of science”, including the SI, & should be abandoned in sports science
Jo Clubb
6 min read


Examining the Worst Case Scenario Approach
The worst case scenario stemmed from practitioners & researchers seeking to understanding the most demanding passages of play. Is it valid?
Jo Clubb
5 min read


Why ‘best practice’ is not always best in sport
I am proud to share news of a new publication with my good friend and former colleague at the Buffalo Bills, Will Greenberg. Our...
Jo Clubb
2 min read


Elite football of 2030 will not be the same as that of 2020
I am happy to share a new publication I was recently involved in. In this letter to the editor, we respond to a prior editorial by George...
Jo Clubb
1 min read


How Training Load is Used in Elite Sport for Athlete Management
This post outlines our new publication in the International Journal of Sports Medicine on how training load is used for athlete...
Jo Clubb
2 min read


A Standardized Small Sided Game Can Be Used to Monitor Neuromuscular Fatigue
I am pleased to share this new publication in Frontiers led by Amber Rowell. Using the training environment as a testing setting is an...
Jo Clubb
2 min read


The Debate on the Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio: Part 2
Part One of our Acute: Chronic Workload Ratio (ACWR) debate series outlined some of the contemporary research that include the metric in...
Jo Clubb
6 min read


Developing Cost-effective & Evidence-based Load Monitoring Systems
I am really proud to be able to share my first publication as the first name author. It was my pleasure to be guided by the legendary...
Jo Clubb
1 min read


… But Does Injury Availability Affect your Team’s Physical Outputs?
Last month we explored the evidence base supporting the notion that athlete availability reduces your team’s chance of success. That post...
Jo Clubb
2 min read


The Debate on the Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio
This post discusses the science behind the Acute Chronic Workload Ratio (ACWR) and how appropriate it is to use for training load...
Jo Clubb
6 min read


Are We Overlooking Confounding Variables in Applied Sport Science?
This post expands on the points made in what I believe is a must read review for all Sport Scientists and in fact any practitioner...
Jo Clubb
6 min read


Does research actually support applied practice in professional football?
McCall et al (2015) reviewed the literature to assess if the published research actually supported the most popular practices in the EPL.
Jo Clubb
9 min read
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