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Looking Beyond Training Load in Injury Risk Forecasting
My comment on Zone7’s white paper: The Importance of Workload, Strength, Recovery and Environmental Context Data in Injury Risk Forecasting

Jo Clubb
6 min read


How to Combine Internal & External Training Load Monitoring
This video discussing how the relationship between internal and external training load can be used to assess athlete fitness fatigue status

Jo Clubb
2 min read


Wellness Questionnaires for Athlete Monitoring
This post explains why athlete self report wellness questionnaires are a critical component of a load monitoring system, and how to implement them with your athletes and coaches.

Jo Clubb
5 min read


How a Rejected Paper Won a Nobel Prize
George Akerlof's paper "The Market for ‘Lemons’" was initially rejected by 3 journals. It became seminal work that led to a Nobel Prize.

Jo Clubb
3 min read


What Do We Mean by “Elite”?
A new Participant Classification Framework in IJSPP seeks to define different tiers of athlete classification from sedentary to world class

Jo Clubb
3 min read


Tracking Systems in Team Sports: A Narrative Review
I'm excited to share a new review: Tracking Systems in Team Sports: A Narrative Review of Applications of the Data &Sport Specific Analysis

Jo Clubb
2 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


The Debate on the Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio: Part 2
This post continues our debate critiquing the acute chronic workload ratio (ACWR) and its role in training load management and sports...

Jo Clubb
6 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 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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