Each man-game lost to injury costs a National Hockey League team an average of $35,000 in salary paid to a player who cannot play. This adds up to $7.6 million and 10 points over the course of a season. Eight teams in the National Hockey League lost fewer than 150 man-games to injury in the […]
Tommy Henriksson is a coach and sports scientist at Umea Performance Center. He is also completing his doctorate at Umea University, where he is examining the physical requirements for success in women’s ice hockey. In the course of that work he has delved into the role that the culture and institutions of the sport have in long-term athlete […]
Injuries cost Major League Baseball teams millions of dollars, wins, their place in the standings and – for one team – a wild-card play-off spot. Putting resources and intent into reversing the trend of the last few years could improve player health, team performance and the front office’s bottom line. Major League Baseball teams lost […]
Jonas Dodoo is the founder of Speedworks Training in London, where he and his team train, develop and prepare some of Great Britain’s top athletes. We talked with Jonas about the philosophy, culture and approach that underlies the success his athletes have had. What were some of the training techniques and approaches that you learned […]
Dr. Gerald Mangine recently co-authored the first study examining the effect of resisted sprinting on the kinetics of a subsequent sprint. His work with the 1080 Sprint raises the possibility of resisted and assisted sprinting as highly-specific means of post-activation potentiation. Only three studies had previously examined resisted sprinting as a means of inducing post-activation potentiation […]
J-B Morin led a team of sports scientists that investigated the effects of resisted sprinting at maximum power production. The researchers came together to build off their extensive body of work in horizontal force production, sprint kinetics and optimizing resisted sprinting. The study involved athletes from rugby, soccer and track and field. The rugby players in the study […]
