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Mini: Your Maker Mix
The Maker Mix (Designing Your Worklife) uses a sound desk analogy to enable you to reflect on your life payments: money, impact, expression.

Jo Clubb
2 min read


Optimising the Precision Practicality Tradeoff
The Precision Practicality Tradeoff describes the compromise between these two factors. Here we discuss how practitioners can optimise this.

Jo Clubb
4 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


Using Swiss Cheese to Reduce Injury Risk
The Swiss Cheese model of accidents has been applied to the COVID-19 pandemic defence. It can also be applied to injury risk reduction.

Jo Clubb
5 min read


Juggling Value & Burden in Data Collection
When considering a data collection process, it is important to deliberate on both value and burden it will place on the athlete.

Jo Clubb
5 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


Do you change your mind when the facts change?
It is our duty as scientists to maintain doubt, consider the (un)certainty, and update our beliefs on the basis of new evidence.

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


Winning "Unwinnable" Games with Calendar Optimisation
No matter the constraints (opponents, time, turnarounds, locations), there is always an opportunity to put the team in a position to perform

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


Perspectives on Perspectives: Using the Zoom Button
When I watch the incredible Cosmic Eye video (below), I think of a particularly desirable skillset of a support staff member: the ability...

Jo Clubb
5 min read


When Interventions Do More Harm Than Good
“Naïve interventionism” describes intervening, based on an urge to help, without weighing up the potential harm of such an intervention.

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
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