March 2016

Issue 6

March 2017

Strength & Conditioning

  1. The effects of eccentric contraction duration on muscle strength, power production, vertical jump, and soreness
  2. Does short-term gluteal activation enhance muscle performance?
  3. Effect of the flexibility training performed immediately before resistance training on muscle hypertrophy, maximum strength and flexibility

Technology & Monitoring

  1. Evening electronic device use: the effects on alertness, sleep and next-day physical performance in athletes
  2. Reliability, validity, and injury predictive value of the functional movement screen: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  3. Inter-day reliability of the reactive strength index and optimal drop height

Fatigue & Recovery

  1. Acute effects of Kinesio-taping on muscle function and self-perceived fatigue level in healthy adults
  2. Effect of Swedish massage on DOMS after strenuous exercise
  3. Effectiveness of using wearable vibration therapy to alleviate muscle soreness

Youths

  1. The association of sport specialization and training volume with injury history in youth athletes
  2. Individual response to different forms of resistance training in school-aged boys
  3. Back pain prevalence in adolescent athletes

Nutrition

  1. Time-restricted feeding in young men performing resistance training: a randomized controlled trial
  2. Effect of an acute dose of omega-3 fish oil following exercise-induced muscle damage
  3. Impact of a 6-week non-energy restricted ketogenic diet on physical fitness, body composition and biochemical parameters in healthy adults

Football (Soccer)

  1. Proximal neuromuscular control (“core stability”) protects against hamstring injuries in male soccer players

Rugby

  1. Responses of lower-body power and match running demands following long-haul travel in international rugby sevens players

Cricket

  1. Assessment of workload and its effects on performance and injury in elite cricket fast bowlers

Australian Rules Football

  1. Assessment and training of visuomotor reaction time for football injury prevention

American Football

  1. Subsequent injuries are more common than injury recurrences
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February 2017

Issue 5

February 2017

Strength & Conditioning

  1. Crescent pyramid and drop-set systems do not promote greater strength gains, muscle hypertrophy, and changes on muscle architecture compared with traditional resistance training in well-trained men
  2. Importance of horizontally loaded movements to sports performance
  3. Effect of movement velocity during resistance training on dynamic muscular strength: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Technology & Monitoring

  1. Validity and reliability of a novel iPhone app for the measurement of barbell velocity and 1RM on the bench-press exercise
  2. Subjective well-being and training load predict in-season injury and illness risk in female youth soccer players
  3. Loading intensity prediction by velocity and the OMNI-RES 0–10 scale in bench press

Fatigue & Recovery

  1. Effects of roller massager on muscle recovery after exercise-induced muscle damage
  2. Short-duration therapeutic massage reduces postural upper trapezius muscle activity
  3. Effects of elastic taping, non-elastic taping and static stretching on recovery after intensive eccentric exercise

Youths

  1. Compelling overuse injury incidence in youth multisport athletes
  2. Optimising bone health in the young male athlete
  3. Age-ordered shirt numbering reduces the selection bias associated with the relative age effect

Nutrition

  1. Micronutrient intakes in 553 Dutch elite and sub-elite athletes: prevalence of low and high intakes in users and non-users of nutritional supplements
  2. Obesity energetics: body weight regulation and the effects of diet composition
  3. Indicator amino acid-derived estimate of dietary protein requirement for male bodybuilders on a non-training day is several-fold greater than the current recommended dietary allowance

Football (Soccer)

  1. Higher drop in speed during a repeated sprint test in soccer players reporting former hamstring strain injury

Rugby

  1. Fatigue and recovery in rugby: a review

Cricket

  1. Do fast bowlers fatigue in cricket: a paradox between player anecdotes and quantitative evidence?

Australian Rules Football

  1. Asymmetry during preseason functional movement screen (FMS) testing in associated with injury during a junior Australian football season

American Football

  1. Quantification of accelerometer derived impacts associated with competitive games in national collegiate athletic association division i college football players
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January 2017

Issue 4

January 2017

Strength & Conditioning

  1. The effect of strength training on performance indicators in distance runners
  2. Effects of a strength training session after an exercise inducing muscle damage on recovery kinetics
  3. Comparison of Olympic and hexagonal barbells with mid-thigh pull, deadlift, and countermovement jump

Technology & Monitoring

  1. Traditional vs. Sport-specific vertical jump tests: reliability, validity, and relationship with the legs strength and sprint performance in adult and teen soccer and basketball players
  2. Electromyographic activity in superficial muscles of the thigh and hip during the back squat to three different depths with relative loading
  3. Effectiveness of an individualized training based on force-velocity profiling during jumping

Fatigue & Recovery

  1. Aqua cycling does not affect recovery of performance, damage markers, and sensation of pain
  2. The effect of different foam rolling volumes on knee extension fatigue
  3. Influence of cold-water immersion on limb blood flow after resistance exercise

Youths

  1. Impact sports and bone fractures among adolescents
  2. The impact of physical growth and relative age effect on assessment in physical education
  3. The impact of sport participation on bone mass and geometry in male adolescents

Nutrition

  1. Pre- versus post-exercise protein intake has similar effects on muscular adaptations
  2. Low carbohydrate, high fat diet impairs exercise economy and negates the performance benefit from intensified training in elite race walkers
  3. Effects of dehydration on cricket specific skill performance in hot and humid conditions

Football (Soccer)

  1. No relationship between hamstring flexibility and hamstring injuries in male amateur soccer players

Rugby

  1. Hypoxic repeat-sprint training improves rugby player’s repeated sprint but not endurance performance

Cricket

  1. The effects of mental fatigue on cricket-relevant performance among elite players

Australian Rules Football

  1. The improvement of strength performance during an Australian football pre-season

American Football

  1. Longitudinal body composition changes in NCAA division 1 college football players
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December 2016

Issue 3

December 2016

Strength & Conditioning

  1. Differential effects of heavy versus moderate loads on measures of strength and hypertrophy in resistance-trained men
  2. Changes in joint range of motion and muscle–tendon unit stiffness after varying amounts of dynamic stretching
  3. Abdominal crunches are/are not a safe and effective exercise

Technology & Monitoring

  1. Validity and intra-rater reliability of MyJump app on iPhone 6s in jump performance
  2. How valid are wearable physical activity trackers for measuring steps?
  3. The acute:chonic workload ratio in relation to injury risk in professional soccer

Fatigue & Recovery

  1. Is there evidence that runners can benefit from wearing compression clothing?
  2. Heart rate variability and psychometric responses to overload and tapering in collegiate sprint-swimmers
  3. Photobiomodulation therapy improves performance and accelerates recovery of high-level rugby players in field test

Youths

  1. The influence of maturation on sprint performance in boys over a 21-month period
  2. Identifying talented track and field athletes: the impact of relative age effect on selection to the Spanish national athletics federation training camps
  3. Effects of an in-season plyometric training program on repeated change of direction and sprint performance in the junior soccer player

Nutrition

  1. Milk and dairy products: good or bad for human health? An assessment of the totality of scientific evidence
  2. Vitamin c-enriched gelatin supplementation before intermittent activity augments collagen synthesis
  3. Does carbohydrate intake during endurance running improve performance? A critical review

Football (Soccer)

  1. The influence of changes in acute training load on daily sensitivity of morning-measured fatigue variables in elite soccer players

Rugby

  1. Complex training: the effect of exercise selection and training status on post-activation potentiation in rugby league players

Cricket

  1. Strength and conditioning for throwing in cricket

Australian Rules Football

  1. Validity and reliability of a submaximal intermittent running test in elite Australian football players

American Football

  1. Increasing lower extremity injury rates across the 2009-2010 to 2014-2015 seasons of national collegiate athletic association football: an unintended consequence of the “targeting” rule used to prevent concussions?
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November 2016

Issue 2

November 2016

Strength & Conditioning

  1. The relationship between dynamic stability and multidirectional speed
  2. Effects of strength and endurance exercise order on endocrine responses to concurrent training
  3. The dose–response relationship between resistance training volume and muscle hypertrophy: are there really still any doubts?

Technology & Monitoring

  1. Change of direction deficit: a more isolated measure of change of direction performance than total 505 time
  2. Sprint performance and mechanical outputs computed with an iphone app: comparison with existing reference methods
  3. The use of reactive strength index, reactive strength index modified, and flight time: contraction time as monitoring tools

Fatigue & Recovery

  1. The neuromuscular, biochemical, and endocrine responses to a single-session vs. Double-session training day in elite athletes
  2. Power–duration relationship: physiology, fatigue, and the limits of human performance
  3. The effects of skin and core tissue cooling on oxygenation of the vastus lateralis muscle during walking and running

Youths

  1. Exploring the high reinjury rate in younger patients undergoing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
  2. Cardiorespiratory fitness cut points to avoid cardiovascular disease risk in children and adolescents; what level of fitness should raise a red flag? A systematic review and meta-analysis
  3. Academic outcomes in high-school students after a concussion: a retrospective population-based analysis

Nutrition

  1. Pre-sleep protein ingestion does not compromise the muscle protein synthetic response to protein ingested the following morning
  2. Effects of acute carbohydrate ingestion on anaerobic exercise performance
  3. Acute low-dose caffeine supplementation increases electromyographic fatigue threshold in healthy men

Football (Soccer)

  1. Very-heavy sled training for improving horizontal force output in soccer players

Rugby

  1. Movement demands of elite under-20s and senior international rugby union players

Cricket

  1. The effects of fast bowling fatigue and adhesive taping on shoulder joint position sense in amateur cricket players in Victoria, Australia

Australian Rules Football

  1. Is there a relationship between hip adductor strength and groin injuries in Australian football league footballers?

American Football

  1. Hydration and fluid replacement knowledge, attitudes, barriers and behaviours of ncaa division 1 American football players
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October 2016

Issue 1

October 2016

Strength & Conditioning

  1. Post-activation potentiation of horizontal jump performance across multiple sets of a contrast protocol
  2. Comparing the effectiveness of a short-term vertical jump vs. Weightlifting program on athletic power development
  3. Does the functional movement screen correlate with athletic performance? A systematic review

Technology & Monitoring

  1. To jump or cycle? Monitoring neuromuscular function in rugby union players
  2. Validity of a wearable accelerometer device to measure average acceleration values during high-speed running
  3. Relationship between daily training load and psychometric status of professional soccer players

Fatigue & Recovery

  1. Passive and post-exercise cold-water immersion augments pgc-1α and VEGF expression in human skeletal muscle
  2. Massage and post-exercise recovery: the science is emerging
  3. Gender differences in fatigability and muscle activity responses to a short-cycle repetitive task

Youths

  1. Examining relative age effects in fundamental skill proficiency in British children aged 6–11 years
  2. Adolescents’ perception of the psychosocial factors affecting sustained engagement in sports and physical activity
  3. Validation of maturity offset in the Fels longitudinal study

Nutrition

  1. Chronic ingestion of a low dose of caffeine induces tolerance to the performance benefits of caffeine
  2. Vitamin d3 supplementation in healthy adults: a comparison between capsule and oral spray solution as a method of delivery in a wintertime
  3. Post-exercise rehydration: effect of consumption of beer with varying alcohol content on fluid balance after mild dehydration

Football (Soccer)

  1. Match play demands of 11 versus 11 professional football using global positioning system tracking: variations across common playing formations

Rugby

  1. Relationship between maximum aerobic speed performance and distance covered in rugby union games

Cricket

  1. The association between lower limb biomechanics and ball release speed in cricket fast bowlers: a comparison of high-performance and amateur competitors

Australian Rules Football

  1. Discriminating talent identified junior Australian footballers using a fundamental gross athletic movement assessment

American Football

  1. Suicide mortality among retired national football league players who played 5 or more seasons
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