Presentations and Podcasts
Presentations
Managing the week for Adolescent Football Players
In this CPD presentation, I delve into the details of designing a weekly micro-cycle for adolescent football players. The video presentation looks at where to start and what things to consider when aiming to provide the best athletic development plan for each individual. For example, navigating the rigours of academy Football alongside school, extra-curricular clubs and other activities. I touch on sleep, travel, nutrition and injury risk, including the role of growth and maturation. This CPD presentation will hopefully inform your knowledge of designing the micro-cycle in adolescent Football players and how to implement some of the information highlighted.
Can we reduce injury risk during the adolescent growth spurt? An iterative sequence of prevention in male academy footballers
In this presentation, I describe the Iterative Sequence of Prevention I applied at AFC Bournemouth. This study aimed to use an interdisciplinary collaboration between technical coaches, sports scientists, and medical staff to mitigate this risk during the growth spurt. This study found a significant reduction in the injury incidence and burden between the seasons. Therefore, it may be possible to mitigate injury incidence and burden during the adolescent growth spurt in high-risk athletes.
Podcasts
Athlete Development Show
This conversation is with the Athlete Development Show I share some research on injury prevention that has shown what’s possible in football during the growth spurt. We discuss how you can measure growth regardless of the resources, the 4 key risk factors of injury, and how you can effectively intervene to protect your athletes. We also discuss nutrition and how this might be effected by the growth spurt.
If you're interested in athletes navigating accelerated growth and would like to know more about preventing physical injury, this conversation is for you.
Football Fitness Federation #39
I joined the FFF to talk about:
Growth & maturation
What/how to monitor G&M
Bio Banding
The relationship between training load and G&M
and much more!