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Steve March 24, 2015 |
This blog is part of a series about interviewing for applied sport science, if you missed last week’s intro, here it is. “We’re generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.” Daniel Kahneman Woah there introductory blog, you give the impression that we are done and dusted with the preamble and we are about to dive…
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Steve March 17, 2015 |
“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.” Abraham Maslow If you put ‘job interview’ into Google – it will return a google number of articles about some principles or methods of how to ace it. Despite this, my experience of upwards of 500 interviews of sports scientists tells me…
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Steve June 18, 2012 |
I am a runner. Well I used to run. Actually I still run, but only a couple of times per week. But I used to try to sprint. I wasn’t very good, but I had a nice time trying! Nevertheless running has been my predominant sport. This is my way of declaring my lack of bias toward what…
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Steve June 14, 2012 |
This week’s topic, in my humble opinion, is the most neglected subject area in the Sports Science education system*. If the evidence that I refer to is indirect I apologise, but in the graduate population I encounter their understanding of this area is almost completely absent. Therefore, if there are course leaders reading this please include the subject…
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Steve June 6, 2012 |
I have a vision of three local folk in the ancient town of Marathon wandering about in blue and silver striped waistcoats unsure if they are looking cool, but not actually feeling cool. They are probably curious about the horizontal panels in their waistcoat, containing some form of crystals – ‘is this fashion?”, and they might also be…
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Steve May 30, 2012 |
David Bruce (DB) Dill of the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory was the first to systematically, explore exercise tolerance in response to the manipulation of blood acid-base balance. His group and several others had first increased blood acidity and noticed a worsening of exercise performance. This led them to developing the hypothesising that increasing basicity would facilitate exercise performance, and…
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Steve May 24, 2012 |
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep”, (Leonardo da Vinci) No. 10 – Sleep Sometime around the summer of 2002 I was roped into participating in a study by Charlie Pedlar. For three days, we carted down to the sleep laboratories at Surrey University and spent about an hour having wires glued to my head, jaw, chin, arm, leg…
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