Good luck to @fa_pgmol assistant referee James Mainwaring who is making his @FIFAWorldCup debut on Monday. James prepared in our environmental chamber, acclimating to heat, humidity and altitude conditions he’ll face at the tournament. 🔗 bit.ly/3QilRFZ. @McrInstSport

Today is a beautiful day! The UK has officially signed its return to Erasmus . British students will once again study across Europe, feeling closer to our shared continent A wonderful victory for all who believe in the bond between the UK and EU Erasmus welcomes the UK home

🆕 The effects of isothermic heat acclimation on simple and complex cognitive performance in the heat tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

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The most important rule in training is also the least dramatic: be consistent. It doesn’t sell books or rack up likes. But it’s the one thing that makes everything else possible.

here are different sports on a continuum of sprint-endurance, and strength-speed v2 It’s meant for visual comparison & some sports required development in all areas. But try to see these relative to the other sports on the chart - and that might help with interpretation.

So many “influencers,” “optimizers,” and “wellness” gurus don’t have partners, kids, or really any obligations outside of themselves. They sell optimization, purity, and perfectionism, but anyone who is actually in the arena knows true greatness is a distinctly human and therefore messy endeavor. Yes—strive to be healthy, focused, and goal oriented. But also realize that sometimes the key to adult life is that you’ve just got to order a pizza and move on.

Explore #combatsport science with @DaleRead4, @stebbina, @SamBarra8 and @AdamKirkwood99 at 'Beyond the Fight: The Science of Combat Sport’. They'll be presenting on ‘Translating science into strikes: evidence-based training in taekwondo.’🥋 20 September: t.ly/4NRH7

You've probably seen headlines: High-Intensity Training is superior to easy aerobic running. But dig deeper and you'll notice a pattern: most of these studies are short: just 4 to 8 weeks. A recent review tells a fuller story. In the early weeks, HIT and Sprint Interval Training outperform easy endurance training (ET). But over the long haul… the story changes

Great to see our recent publication questioning the appropriateness of traditional kick off times featured in this import BBC report. Full paper: link.springer.com/article/10…

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New analysis on the effects of heat and humidity on marathon performance!

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Polarised🆚Pyramidal🆚Threshold Which training model is best?🏆 It might matter how trained you are🤔 Our new meta-analysis tries to answer which training intervention produces the greatest improvements in endurance performance in trained athletes Thread🧵 & 🔗links below👇

Zone 2 training in professional football or in general team sports, a nice controversial topic as not much studied on this on a higher quality scale. I think one part of this also is that there is not really agreement of how to determine thresholds (for example mathematical vs 2mmol etc), but the one used here is quite normal in Finland (see figure 1). Nonetheless, this study added 1 hour of individualized training at 72% of LT1 (programming though a bit unclear as it says 26 sessions in 9 weeks, so not sure if that's 3 hours or 1hour/3). No control group, but very interesting pilot results. Speed increased at lactate thresholds, indicating improved buffering. Im curious whether LT1 training improves RSA or just in general recovery between sessions. Also, would a volume increase like this influence speed to what extent? We have to make inevitable sacrifices to speed in many sports, but just curious of what is necessary. Thoughts? journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

We're delighted to share that we will be the host of the 2027 Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science! The @E_C_S_S Congress will see us welcoming around 3000 sport and exercise scientists from around the globe to our campus and city.

A pretty damning first five years of Brexit, quantified here rather neatly.

Interesting article in the latest The Sport and Exercise Scientist (@basesuk) titled "Research funding in sport and exercise sciences following REF2021, lessons learned and preparations for REF2029" by Bill Baltzopoulos.