Hydration Testing
Hydration testing is used to determine an athlete’s body fluid balance, and can prevent serious performance and health deficiencies.
Hydration testing is used to determine an athlete’s body fluid balance, and can prevent serious performance and health deficiencies.
Strength training is a widely accepted form of training for both children and adolescents, and can boost youths’ health and fitness.
Maturation should be measured in youth athletes to properly monitor their growth and well-being as athletes.
Military performance programmes try to determine the best way to maximise the investment in tactical athletes’ health and longevity.
The Vertec device is a simple-to-use, inexpensive, and portable device which can measure an athlete’s vertical jump height.
The Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) assesses jump-landing biomechanics and aims to identify athletes at risk of ACL injury.
Statistical significance is a scientific method that helps to determine whether reported research findings are actually true.
Force-velocity profiling allows coaches to tailor specific programmes for their athletes by using detailed, objective information.
Actively monitoring fatigue levels in athletes can provide the feedback needed to adjust training in order to improve overall performance.
The acute:chronic workload ratio can assist practitioners in understanding the preparedness of an athlete and their relative injury risk.
Changes in body composition can be determinants of successful performance, and there are several methods of body composition testing.
Fitness testing is a crucial part of athlete profiling, and meaningful results can be assessed by calculating the smallest worthwhile change.
The force-vector theory allows coaches to identify training exercises which may have greater specificity to the competition movements.
The squat jump is a simple, practical and very reliable measure of lower-body power, and is used widely by coaches and sports scientists.
The relative age effect is when children born in, or close to, a critical age cut-off period may have a sporting and academic advantage.
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