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  • 17/06/2016 at 22:45 #18133

    Thanks Mladen would you like to test the theory with several clubs to increase the sample size? We have access to many

    I tend to agree with you on prediction its hard, plus who will listen to the prediction?

    Athletes want to play
    Coaches want athletes to play

    its difficult one eh

    16/03/2016 at 20:02 #17602

    Your knowledge of stats is far beyond mine. However I think the formula has to look much further than 6 weeks especially in an endurance athlete.

    Its not that simple though.

    A major factor to consider is Injury patterns within a sport and also Injury risk of the actual athlete.

    Here is an example

    2 Endurance athletes female both have a large training base of chronic workload.

    Both develop a Meta tarsal stress fracture and lets assume they return at the same time.
    One however has a slight -ve energy balance as she did not want to gain weight while being off
    the other gained a little weight

    On return they start running and as they are training partners do the same volumes intensities etc

    6 weeks in one breaks down the other does not

    The TSB will be the same for both but another factor in this case energy balance is relevant and has lead to the increase risk of bone stress response.

    So prediction of injury is multi factorial using the agile approach these factors can be recognised by the team and dealt with effectively, but more importantly the athletes themselves need to self manage. One girl did the other took an ill judged risk.

    16/03/2016 at 18:52 #17601

    Quite current and insightful this from Danilo, having been involved in sports medicine for many yrs 1996 I think I first became involved in rugby league. The Athletes had to self manage …. because there was not the extended team of medics and scientists we have today.

    By self manage I mean they had to experiment a little with injury and recovery and do what they felt was needed in order to return to play … and get paid.

    Now my feeling is that in some sports we have been breeding a helpless team of athletes who are so used to being told what to do they have lost the ability to self manage, they are tracked from head to foot by wearables and we gather the data from these devices and use it to devise a plan

    While I agree this is going to be the future we have lost something.

    Exactly what Danilo points out and that is that the athlete is just another member of the team and needs to learn the skills of self management, recognising an issue, this may for example be a tightness in the Achilles for example with this recognition understand to rest and initiate a strengthening program into his or her training program being able then to respond him or herself to changes in how he or she feels and work out ( with the extended team ) what works best

    ie not just following a blind prescription

    The more we encourage learned helplessness the more we will have to do to the athlete the larger the teams will grow to be able to manage them.

    I often wonder what is the correct formula for a sports medical and science team. It seems it is not based on need but on the budget of the organization.

    Some smaller teams with small budgets have a low incidence of injury ………. are their players better at self management ?

    therein is the question

    12/03/2016 at 17:18 #17574

    Hi John I guess it will be very similar although we have approached it from a different perspective, as I am a Doc the system started out very medically oriented. We are only just entering the sports science domain, I guess you started from the other end and developed the sports science side first before the medical ? I doubt there will be major differences. I suppose it comes down to cost and usability.

    What is the cost of Kinduct for one squad e.g a soccer team ?

    Systems aside however the whole training load TSB injury risk thing fascinates me. I do like the acute on chronic workload issue, in Triathlon our athletes train 35 – 40 hours a week for several consecutive weeks. I think basing assumptions on TSB may come unstuck unless previous long term chronic training loads are also considered. An example would be an athlete who has a large training ” base ” gets injured. He has time off but because of the base is able to accommodate a high acute training load to get back to where he left off quickly.

    So it needs a ” factor ” in the equation perhaps Mladen you have an opinion on this ?

    best James

    12/03/2016 at 15:15 #17570

    John you can use our football monitoring system free if you let me know how you find it and provide feedback on the system.

    We use session RPE x duration to calculate AU load and automatically the system will calculate training monontony and strain.

    We provide monthly reports using latex and send them back to you in a download section.

    You can track wellness, any fitness test, physical data , msk screening data

    It also links all the medical data with this to create reports we are just in the process of designing a data dashboard to provide all key useful metrics for the target audience.

    Me I am a sports medical Doctor with British Triathlon but have worked in team sport for many years
    or have a look here http://www.benchmark54.com register free here https://app.benchmark54.com

    I am particularly interested in cohesion in teams and bringing medical science sports science conditioning together, one of the ways is to be more open with information and making data relevant in a dashboard

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