@FootballFitFed Thank you for having me on the Podcast. It was a real pleasure chatting with you. Really hope the listeners take something away with them. Appreciate all the good work you guys are doing!

Enjoy the #WorldCup⚽️ Soccer: A Short Bibliography and Resource Guide of Review Articles 🔗joeeisenmann.substack.com/p/… Physiology of Soccer Goaltender Profile Training Load Strength and Fitness Training Programs Bio-banding in Soccer Injury Nutrition Fatigue, Recovery and Sleep

🆕Epidemiology of ACL injuries in the "Top 5" @UEFA Leagues ⚽️ ➡️"Most ACL ruptures occurred through non-contact mechanisms, typically during defensive actions, particularly while pressing an opponent" 👉D. Ortiz-Sánchez et al. 2026 🇪🇸 📂Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

A new randomized controlled trial examined whether adding the Copenhagen Adduction Exercise to an 8 week rehabilitation program could improve outcomes in male soccer players with adductor related groin pain. Both groups completed supervised rehabilitation twice per week, but the intervention group also progressed through a modified Copenhagen Adduction Exercise program. The progression started with assisted isometric holds and advanced toward the full Copenhagen exercise, using pain response as a guide. Progression only occurred when athletes stayed at or below 4 out of 10 pain on the Numeric Rating Scale. The results were meaningful. The Copenhagen group demonstrated greater improvements in eccentric hip adduction strength, larger reductions in pain, and better scores across all HAGOS subscales compared with the control group. The intervention group improved eccentric hip adduction strength by 22 percent, exceeding the study’s stated 15 percent threshold for a clinically meaningful difference. The practical takeaway is simple: the Copenhagen Adduction Exercise is not just a prevention tool. When progressed appropriately, it may be a valuable rehabilitation asset for soccer players dealing with adductor related groin pain. The key is dosage, progression, and symptom response. = It is not about forcing the full exercise early. It is about building the athlete from tolerable isometric and modified positions toward higher load eccentric demands while respecting pain and movement quality.

🆕"The first study to quantify the incidence, severity, & burden of match & training injuries in professional academy ⚽️ in @ScottishFA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿" ▪️Both match & training injury incidence rates generally ⬆️ with age 👉@SteveCurnyn et al. 2026 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📂Open Access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A paper I co-authored is now published in Football Studies: Match-Running Demands by Playing Position in Colombian Men’s Professional Soccer Interesting project examining positional match-running differences across the Colombian professional game. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

🆕"The @UEFA expert group conducted a narrative review of the scientific evidence relating to nutrition, drawing on their expertise, scientific literature & practical experience ⚽️" 👉@JamesCollinsPN R. Maughan @Jeukendrup et al. 2026 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📂Open Access: bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/8/41…

⚽📊 If You Want to Prevent Hamstring Injuries in Soccer, Run Fast: A Narrative Review about Practical Considerations of Sprint Training mdpi.com/2075-4663/12/5/134

🆕"Complex training appears to be more effective in improving maximal isokinetic muscle strength when compared with plyometric & traditional resistance training in highly trained male ⚽️ players" 👉 Said El-Ashker et al. 2026 🇸🇦 📂Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10…

A great insight from the professor why hip mobility is important for football players. This highlights the importance of athletic development and who Arsenal emphasised “most efferent movers”

#footballresearch 8/2026 footballscience.net/2026/03/… @Peter_Edholm @fitsoccerqueen @Joe_Eisenmann @acea_ngel @lemonwatcher @CiDeely @OliverFaude @Derek_NovantaSP @hadi_nobari @jordigarciapf @GleesonEileen @AlexMEhlert @CoachMattLA @logosofsport @IrineuLoturco @StefanAltmann3

I built my first Shiny app called Growth & Maturation App . It is a simple tool for coaches and practitioners to estimate: •Maturity Offset using the Mirwald (2002) equations •Age at Peak Height Velocity (PHV) •Predicted Adult Height using the Khamis–Roche method🧵⬇️

High-intensity interval training improves the reactive strength index and motor ability of youth footballers #FootballScience #footballresearch footballscience.net/2026/03/…

Brilliant! Working in the youth space, we are told repeatedly that teams/players lack fitness & need to run more. Having the capacity to meet the demands of the sport is important, but how it applies to your game model (context) matters more.

#footballresearch @rggonzalo @CoachFarzad @OliverFaude @dr_o_girard @DrAnthonyWeldon @IrineuLoturco @Peter_Edholm @lemonwatcher @fitsoccerqueen @jimvance @BlaineMcKenna77 @acea_ngel @StefanAltmann3 @CiDeely @Derek_NovantaSP @Doc_Haff @CoachingFamily footballscience.net/2026/02/…

Beyond excited to share my 3rd book, The Pinnacle Effect! Explore how context reshapes match demands across men’s, women’s & youth international football. Thanks to those that supported me along the way. Link👇 amazon.com/PINNACLE-EFFECT-C…

【High Performance Sport Conference】"Training Load, Adaptation, and Decision-Making in High Performance Sport" On-demand available (free, no registration). Thank you @inigomujika_en, @Jeukendrup, @francoimpell, @MasaNakamuraTo1 and all contributors. hpsc-seminar2026.studio.site…

⚽️🏃🏽‍♂️ Return to high-speed running after a hamstring injury in soccer: A scoping review about criteria and management of on-field rehabilitation ⭐️ It was a pleasure to collaborate and contribute towards this important review article 👏🏻 Well done Paolo Perna and colleagues

꩜ ⚽️𝐀 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 - THREAD (1/10) Development is NOT LINEAR. It is Non-Linear. Players go on a journey with their learning experience and will display consistency and inconsistency in performance adaptations Instead of working in 'blocks' where we're heavily loading work under the assumption it will be better retained, which can often treat players as these 'computers' we're attempting to download information into which later is forgotten, how can we design meaningful, personalised and connected learning experiences that compound over time. By designing a cyclical approach to our work, we're able to focus more on "DEPTH" vs "BREADTH", by establishing a deeper understanding and mastery of concepts With a Spiral Curriculum, the player(s) are able to return to the same core game ideas, principles and situations but in new contexts, and at different, higher and challenging speeds, whilst considering the nuanced journey of the individual. Throughout this thread I will share my adapted Spiral Curriculum and unpack the concept further as well as how I link in an ecological dynamics rational and constraints led approach within a model/framework