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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


Why Every Practitioner Needs to Know Goodhart’s Law
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. As sport is overflowing with measures and targets, this requires exploring.

Jo Clubb
5 min read


Diving Deeper into AI in Sport
Thanks to everyone who responded to my appeal to canvas industry opinion on artificial intelligence (AI) in high performance sport. I...

Jo Clubb
3 min read


Three Steps to Reducing Training Load Overwhelm
This post provides three action steps to help practitioners feel less overwhelmed by big data when monitoring athlete training load.

Jo Clubb
5 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


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
5 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


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


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


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


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

Guest
12 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


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
7 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


Acute Chronic Workload Ratio 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...

Jo Clubb
6 min read


Acute:Chronic Workloads and Rehabilitation
Recently I was asked by my colleague Sam Blanchard to write a guest post for his blog: Plinths and Platforms. Sam is also based in...

Jo Clubb
1 min read
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