Injuries cost Major League Baseball teams millions of dollars, wins, their place in the standings and – for one team – a wild-card play-off spot. Putting resources and intent into reversing the trend of the last few years could improve player health, team performance and the front office’s bottom line. Major League Baseball teams lost […]
Jonas Dodoo is the founder of Speedworks Training in London, where he and his team train, develop and prepare some of Great Britain’s top athletes. We talked with Jonas about the philosophy, culture and approach that underlies the success his athletes have had. What were some of the training techniques and approaches that you learned […]
Dr. Gerald Mangine recently co-authored the first study examining the effect of resisted sprinting on the kinetics of a subsequent sprint. His work with the 1080 Sprint raises the possibility of resisted and assisted sprinting as highly-specific means of post-activation potentiation. Only three studies had previously examined resisted sprinting as a means of inducing post-activation potentiation […]
J-B Morin led a team of sports scientists that investigated the effects of resisted sprinting at maximum power production. The researchers came together to build off their extensive body of work in horizontal force production, sprint kinetics and optimizing resisted sprinting. The study involved athletes from rugby, soccer and track and field. The rugby players in the study […]
Arno Galmarini founded Elite Training after winding down his career as a competitive snowboarder. In only a few years he has made his facility a centre of technology-driven sports performance for winter sports. Arno Galmarini’s parents were both competitive skiiers and his brother is an Olympic medalist snowboarder. From personal experience and his family background, Galmarini understood […]
Creatine loading protocols have been remarkably stable amidst other advancements in sports performance nutrition. The University of Guelph’s Human Performance and Health Research Laboratory is testing a new topical creatine supplement that challenges several mainstays of those protocols. Graduate students Alanna Whinton and Rachel Aubry are conducting this leg of the research, which is part […]
