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VALD NHL Report: Key Testing Insights for Ice Hockey Practitioners
This post explores VALD's new 2024/25 NHL report, with key insights for those testing ice hockey athletes.
Jo Clubb
5 min read


Deceleration Demands Part 2: Testing Physical Capacities
This article in our deceleration mini-series explores the options and challenges of testing deceleration capacity.
Jo Clubb
7 min read


Deceleration Demands Part 1: Performance and Injury Risk
This article explores deceleration as a movement demand and the implications for performance and injury risk in team sport athletes.
Jo Clubb
5 min read


Breaking Down Force Plate Analysis with PCA and K-means Clustering
In this guest post, Sports Scientist Ashmeet Anand shares how he combines coaching intuition with advanced statistical techniques to transform athletic assessment of force plate data.
Guest
7 min read


FIFA Female Health Project: 7 Papers Every Practitioner in Women's Football Should Read
This post summarises the 7 new papers in the Special Edition of the Sports Medicine journal in partnership with FIFA.
Jo Clubb
6 min read


Benchmarking Physical Performance in Women’s Football
This post summarises our new research, supported by FIFA, that provides physical performance testing benchmarks across different levels of participation in women's football.
Jo Clubb
6 min read


The Evolution of Handheld Dynamometry in Athlete Testing
This post explores the science and application of handheld dynamometry and the VALD DynaMo range.
Jo Clubb
5 min read


PhD Pinboard: Embedding Submaximal Fitness Testing into Team Sports
This PhD Pinboard article by Tzlil Shushan explores how submaximal fitness tests (SMFTs) can be used to reliably and sensitively track...
Guest
12 min read


A Practical Framework for Preseason Testing
This post is based on a recent VALD online workshop on Preseason Preparation and the VALD eBook 'Practitioner's Guide to Preseason',...
Jo Clubb
7 min read
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