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Jo Clubb
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Discussing Decelerations for Sportsmith
Decelerations are crucial to injury & perf but often overlooked. So, I set out to provide a practical guide to monitoring deceleration load.


Jo Clubb
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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
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Measurement properties in standardised soccer games
Measures of distance and "PlayerLoad" demonstrated good reliability on a group level across trials of standardised football training games

Jo Clubb
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Why We Must Translate Not Transplant Systems
The complexity of sporting environments means systems and research must be translated, rather than simply transplanted.

Jo Clubb
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Workload Monitoring Insights for Sportsmith
We face a flood of load monitoring data, so where can we begin in trying to filter the data to the most important?


Jo Clubb
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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
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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
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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...

Guest
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Interlimb Asymmetry: Calculations, Interpretations & Adding Direction
This guest post from Chris Bishop discusses everything you need to know about calculating athlete asymmetries!


Jo Clubb
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A Standardized Small Sided Game Can Be Used to Monitor Neuromuscular Fatigue
I am pleased to share this new publication in Frontiers led by Amber Rowell. Using the training environment as a testing setting is an...

Jo Clubb
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The Debate on the Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio: Part 2
Part One of our Acute: Chronic Workload Ratio (ACWR) debate series outlined some of the contemporary research that include the metric in...


Jo Clubb
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Developing Cost-effective & Evidence-based Load Monitoring Systems
I am really proud to be able to share my first publication as the first name author. It was my pleasure to be guided by the legendary...

Jo Clubb
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Is There a Tug of War Between Injury Risk and Performance?
The majority of the literature in load monitoring focuses on injury risk. However, performance is an outcome measure of interest too.

Jo Clubb
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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
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Acute:Chronic Workloads and Rehabilitation: A Case Study
Last month I was invited to write a guest blog on Plinths and Platforms about load monitoring and rehabilitation. It included an...
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