Planning the Microcycle: Can Research Improve Practices?
Everything in life is about balance. From ancient Greek history, we have learned that balancing work and recovery is compulsory for optimal health and performance.
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Sprinting x Hamstring Injuries
Learn how sprinting speed rates correlate to the frequency of hamstring injuries + get relevant strategies to decrease time lost due to these injuries.
To Rest or Not to Rest? That is the Question
We look at a really interesting topic with no easy answer: planning the microcycle in elite football.
Injury Analytics in Sport: Beyond the Black Box
Recent advances in techniques to explain machine learning models are opening up models that were previously considered black box models. This, in conjunction with the injection of sports domain knowledge and club context through robust data explorations, feature engineering and feature selection, combine to allow practitioners to see the reasoning behind the model outputs and enable them to incorporate into their decision-making.
Elite Football Injury Risk Explained, Part 2: Further Insights into Hamstring Strains
In this post, we provide further insights into the ‘expected’ injury counts per week/month of hamstring strain, which is the most common injury encountered in elite football (soccer) (Ekstrand, 2021).
Elite Football Injury Risk Explained
Injuries happen. We may put a lot of effort into different strategies trying to mitigate them, but unfortunately they still happen.
Academy Challenges
Scaling production off 1st team-ready players is a top priority for football academies across the world.
Programming Practices and Loading Patterns in Team Sports
The Performance Intelligence Research Initiative (PIRI) is excited to embark on new research for planning and programming! In sports, planning and programming for physical training alongside technical and tactical sequences is supposed to be an easy practice—especially when you have been doing this for a long time. If you’re working with Olympic sports and preparing …
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Narrowing the Gap from Research to Results
The Kitman Labs Performance Intelligence Research Initiative has identified the most urgent needs confronting elite sports practitioners – as they define them. Our just-published practitioner survey surfaced the most pressing needs across sports and roles, pointing a path for future research to sharpen its focus on what matters most for on-field results. Why did we launch …
S3 Ep1: The New Performance Science Opportunity
Stephen Smith, Founder and CEO of Kitman Labs welcomes Martin Buchheit, a renowned sports science researcher and published author, to Kitman Labs as the new Head of Performance Research. In this lively discussion the two talk about the past, present and future of performance science, data, sports research, and how teams create highly collaborative, data-driven …