This post explains five reasons practitioners in sport should use the online research platform, ResearchGate, for their sports science and medicine research.

Understanding growth and maturation in youth athletes is essential to monitor physical development, reduce injury risk, and design training that matches their biological age.

This PhD Pinboard article by Rachel Mason explores the application of various wearable technologies for gait running analysis, providing key considerations for scientists and users alike.

In this post, guest author Scott McLean explains the characteristics of a complex systems and how systems thinking can be utilised in the...

This post explores the science and application of handheld dynamometry and the VALD DynaMo range.

This PhD Pinboard article by Tzlil Shushan explores how submaximal fitness tests (SMFTs) can be used to reliably and sensitively track...

This post is based on a recent VALD online workshop on Preseason Preparation and the VALD eBook 'Practitioner's Guide to Preseason',...

This post break downs the complexities of force plate jump testing, guiding practitioners through selecting meaningful metrics from the countermovement jump for physical profiling, fatigue monitoring, and rehabilitation.

This post explores how submaximal heart rate responses can be used to monitor aerobic fitness in team sport athletes without adding testing burden.

This post delves into the research on the Acute Chronic Workload Ratio and if it can be used to predict injury.

This PhD Pinboard article by Paolo Perna explores how staff can better structure hamstring injury RTP decisions using a multi-phase,...

In this post, I demonstrate Sports Science AI, a platform that provides generative AI-powered literature reviews.

In this post, we’ll explore how to read the force-time curve in detail, highlight what the different phases tell us, and walk through real examples.

This PhD Pinboard article by Nikolaos Asimakidis bridges the gap between fitness testing research and practice in elite soccer, with a focus on test selection, data interpretation, and impactful data visualisation.

This PhD Pinboard article by Georgia Brown tackles the complex, previously under-researched question of how the menstrual cycle affects elite female footballers' performance, recovery, and sleep.