Assessing group-based changes in high-performance sport. Part 2: Effect sizes and embracing uncertainty through confidence intervals
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Assessing group-based changes in high-performance sport. Part 1: Null hypothesis significance testing and the utility of p values
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Principal Component Analysis of the Biomechanical Factors Associated With Performance During Cutting
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Why methods matter in a meta-analysis: a reappraisal showed inconclusive injury preventive effect of Nordic hamstring exercise
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Do Niggles Matter? Increased Injury Risk Following Physical Complaints in Football (Soccer)
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Relationship Between Pretraining Subjective Wellness Measures, Player Load, and Rating-of-Perceived-Exertion Training Load in American College Football
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To Couple or not to Couple? For Acute:Chronic Workload Ratios and Injury Risk, Does it Really Matter?
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One-repetition-maximum Measures or Maximum Bar-power Output: Which is More Related to Sport Performance?
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The Translation of Sport Science Research to the Field: A Current Opinion and Overview on the Perceptions of Practitioners, Researchers and Coaches
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Moving Sport and Exercise Science Forward: A Call For the Adoption of More Transparent Research Practices
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Heart Rate Variability and Psychometric Responses to Overload and Tapering in Collegiate Sprint-swimmers
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Everything You Need to Know About Using Wellness Questionnaires in Sport
Athlete self-report measures (ASRM) can be a relatively simple and inexpensive means for determining an athlete’s training load and his or her subsequent responses to that training [20]. In fact, using ASRM, such as wellness questionnaires, is the most common method for monitoring athlete fatigue and recovery in high performance sport in New Zealand and Australia [28]. And for good reason, as we will soon discover.
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Heart Rate Recovery: An Underutilized Metric for Identifying Fitness and Fatigue in Athletes
Evaluating athlete preparedness for competition demands, and understanding how prescribed training affects fitness and fatigue parameters, is of utmost importance for applied sport professionals. Routinely assessing heart rate recovery can provide pragmatic, cost-effective insights for these evaluations.
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Body Composition in Sport: DXA
Monitoring body composition in athletes is beneficial for a myriad of reasons. DXA, or dual-energy X-ray absorptometry, is one of many methods that can be used to assess body composition in athletes. How DXA works, its popularity, and sources and margin of error are reviewed in this article.
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