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Michel Bruyninckx Trains Soccer Brains
Michel Bruyninckx
When describing what’s wrong with today’s youth soccer coaching,
Michel Bruyninckx points to his head. “We need to stop thinking
football is only a matter of the body,” the 59-year old Belgian Uefa A
license coach and Standard Liège academy director recently told the BBC.
“Skillfulness will only grow if we better understand the mental part...
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"Quiet Eye" Can Help A Surgeon's Patients And Golf Game
Surgeons now have a really good excuse to be out on the golf course.
Researchers have shown that the same training technique that will
improve their putting can also improve their operating skills. Dr
Samuel Vine and Dr Mark Wilson, from Sport and Health Sciences at the
University of Exeter, tested both elite golfers and surgical residents
in two separate experiments...
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December 13, 2011
Is This How Barcelona's Xavi Makes Decisions?
When Xavi Hernandez receives the soccer ball in his offensive half
of the field, the Barcelona maestro has a world of decisions waiting
for him. Hold the ball while his teammates arrive, make the quick
through pass to a slicing Lionel Messi or move into position for a
shot.
The question that decision researchers want to know is whether
Xavi’s brain makes a choice based...
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December 01, 2011
Aaron Rodgers, Working Memory and 10,000 Hours Of Practice
After a great Aaron Rodgers performance, you will usually hear at
least one of two phrases uttered by post-game football analysts, “he
has a great ability to see the field,” or “the game has really slowed
down for him.”
Assuming the Packers’ quarterback does not have
super-human vision or a time machine, these comments must refer to his
ability to recognize opposing...
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November 06, 2011
Apolo Ohno Trains His Legs And His Mind For The NYC Marathon
Of the roughly 45,000 brave souls who will line up for the start of
the New York City Marathon in less than two weeks, there’s a good
chance that at least a few will have doubts of crossing the finish
line. They have put in the training miles, eaten the right foods and
picked out their playlist.
Yet, the biggest obstacle to a finisher’s
medal is not their legs,...
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October 30, 2011
The Next Madden Game Frontier?
(Graphic courtesy of Oregon State University)
For all of you Madden 12 junkies out there, I've got a new post over at Axon Potential on some current artificial intelligence research being done at Oregon State University. They are attempting to teach a computer system to watch an OSU football game and be able to identify, categorize and then suggest plays in a football simulation...
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October 17, 2011
College Football Scandals Stress Need For Coaching Character
Jim Tressel
Former Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel seemed to be a role
model for achieving on-field success with a high level of character.
Two-time National Coach of the Year, Larry Coker and former player
Randy Shannon also were thought to provide moral leadership while
winning national championships during their tenure as head coaches for
the University of Miami...
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August 25, 2011
Lazy Person's Guide To Old Age
Stop eating all of that junk food. Why? So, you can live longer, of
course. Get off the La-Z-Boy and go run five miles. Why?! So, you can
enjoy your old age. No more drinking and smoking. Why?!! So, you can
live to be 100 years old.
The rationale often given for
converting to healthy habits has been to give you a longer life. Who
better to know about long lives than...
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August 13, 2011
Why Are Great Soccer Players So Rare?
An athlete’s level of greatness is often measured by the opinions of his
or her peers while they’re playing and especially when they retire.
Being recognized as one of the best by those who understand what it
takes is rare. This week, one of the world’s greatest soccer players of
the last 30 years retired, yet he could walk down most streets in
America without being...
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August 08, 2011
Helmet Reveals Data About High School Football Player's Broken Neck
For the crowd watching an Illinois high school football game last fall, it was a sickening feeling watching one of their Unity Rockets' cornerbacks collapse to the ground after delivering a heads-down tackle on an opposing running back (see video here.)
For Steven Broglio, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Michigan, it was a mixed feeling of concern...
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August 01, 2011
Little Old Ladies May Want Athletes To Help Them Cross The Road
Photo credit: Beckman Institute CAVE
Boy Scouts just got some competition. Now, when little, old ladies need to cross a busy street, they should find a well-trained athlete to do the job, according to University of Illinois researchers.
In a test of skill transfer, Laura Chaddock, a researcher at the Beckman Institute’s Human Perception and Performance lab, and her team...
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July 11, 2011
Just Pretend Those Carrots Are Cheese Fries
The problem with your diet is not that you’ve been eating the wrong food, but rather you’ve been thinking about your food all wrong. According to Alia Crum, a clinical psychology researcher at Yale University, our mind’s opinion of food labeled or thought of to be “diet” or “low fat” can actually affect our body’s physiological response after eating it, which...
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July 01, 2011
If Your Brain Is Over 40, It Needs To Move
There
was a time when I could hide my gray hairs with some strategic combing.
Now, I have succumbed and describe my new hair color as “executive
blond.” Of course, that also means that the important stuff under my
scalp is getting older too. Brains start to “go gray” about the same
time the hair does, which is why exercise for older adults has become
the new anti...
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June 23, 2011
Beanball Retaliations Rise With The Temperature
Last week, the Cubs made a rare visit to Fenway Park to face the Red Sox in an Major League Baseball interleague series. Things got a little nasty when Sox pitcher Alfredo Aceves put a fastball into the face of the Cubs’ Marlon Byrd, causing multiple fractures. As is “tradition” in baseball, the Red Sox batters knew the score would be settled in the following game...
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June 01, 2011
New Study Identifies NBA Players Who Shoot Too Much
To reach the NBA Finals, Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder needs to pass more, especially to his teammate Kevin Durant. That would be the message that two researchers would send to Thunder coach, Scott Brooks, if given the chance. Matt Goldman, a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, and Justin Rao, a research scientist at Yahoo Labs recently...
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May 20, 2011
Predicting NFL Success By What Draft Picks Say
Thankfully, the NFL Draft and all its hype is behind us. The matchmaking is complete but the guessing game begins as to which team picked the right combination of athletic skill, mental toughness and leadership potential in their player selections. Hundreds of hours of game film can be broken down to grade performance with X’s and O’s. Objective athletic tests at the...
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May 10, 2011
Running Out Of Memory
Diane Van Deren
While the idea of running a marathon seems life-changing in a “bucket list” kind of way, the drudgery of a serious training plan can generate some second thoughts. Even though the details of the weekday workouts vary, the one staple of most plans is the weekend “long run.” Consisting of progressively more miles as race day nears, these runs of 15+ miles...
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May 04, 2011
Back To The Beginning
It was just over three years ago that I wrote a short article called "The Sports Cognition Framework" for my squeaky new blog. It was one of the first five articles I had ever written and it shows. However, it captured the core of my passion and interest which is reflected in the name I chose for this blog, Sports Are 80 Percent Mental. Learning about the connections...
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April 23, 2011
Exercise Helps Older Brains - Now We Know Why
Research conducted at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in Dallas suggests that it's never too late for women to reap the benefits of moderate aerobic exercise. In a 3-month study of 16 women age 60 and older, brisk walking for 30-50 minutes three or four times per week improved blood flow through to the brain as much as...
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April 16, 2011
Workouts Have Gone Digital With TrainingPeaks.com
Gear Fisher, CEO of Peaksware
Along with everything else that is digital in our lives, our workouts are now captured in 0's and 1's. Its not enough that we run, walk, bike or swim, we now have a need to capture data about our efforts so that we can benchmark, measure and improve our future performances.
Gear Fisher recognized this trend way back in 1999, before there were...
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April 09, 2011
Are Bank Shots Best In Basketball?
The basketball is in your hands. The score is tied and there are only a few seconds left on the clock. You have the ball about 10 feet away from the basket on the right side of the court, just outside the free-throw lane. It's decision time: Is it best to try a direct shot to win the game on a swish? Or do you use the backboard and bank home the winning basket? Time'...
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April 03, 2011
Are You Allergic To Spring Marathons?
As almost 40,000 runners get set to take part in next month's London Marathon, a new study has found that one in three will suffer from allergies after the event. Post-marathon sniffles are a common complaint among runners, but they are often put down to infections taking advantage of a depleted immune system caused by the effort involved.
Now, however, researchers at Northumbria...
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March 26, 2011
Body Checking In Youth Hockey Causes More Brain Injuries
Youth hockey players in the Atom division of Hockey Canada are more than 10 times likely to suffer a brain injury since bodychecking was first allowed among the 9 and 10-year-olds, says a study led by St. Michael's Hospital neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Cusimano.
The findings, published online in the journal Open Medicine, add to the growing evidence that bodychecking...
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March 23, 2011
Top NCAA Men's Basketball Programs Are A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Why is it that the same teams seem to dominate March Madness, the annual NCAA men's collegiate basketball tournament? For that matter, why does the same small group of institutions seem to top annual best-college rankings? According to a theory developed by a Duke University engineer, these hierarchies are not only natural, but predictable.
Just as continually growing...
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March 15, 2011
Research Says Don't Bother With Stretching Before You Run
Stretching before a run neither prevents nor causes injury, according to a study presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). More than 70 million people worldwide run recreationally or competitively, and recently there has been controversy regarding whether runners should stretch before running, or not at all.
This study included...
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March 07, 2011
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