Platitudes If you Google “Quotes about graduating from university”, you’ll be showered with things like; “It’s your moment to shine” “Time as a caterpillar has ended, now spread your wings” “You’ve done the work, now it’s time to twerk” (you…
Mid-way If you’re mid-way through your sports and exercise science degree studies and you’re not sure what you can be doing to maximise your chances of developing yourself towards a career in sports performance – then look no further. Performance…
Are you working in applied sports science and realising that it’s not a simple straightforward application of hypothesis, methods, experiment, analyse? Then you’re not alone. Here are three challenges that applied sports scientists and performance support staff, working in elite…
Interdisciplinary skills are not going to go away, in fact looking forward they’re only going to be increasingly required in your work as a sports scientist, applying knowledge to the elite performer Interdisciplinary skills What do I mean by this?…
Exactly 5 years ago Rachel Ingham and I announced Supporting Champions in this little tweet! It’s been an amazing adventure. Here’s a 🧵of 16 key lessons, contrasting the two worlds of being employed and running a consultancy! – I’ve always…
“At first I was afraid, I was petrifiedKept thinking I could never live without you by my sideBut then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrongAnd I grew strongAnd I learned how to get along” Gloria…
In The Imitation Game, dramatising the heroic work of the Bletchley code breakers, about halfway through the film, Alan Turing is encouraged by his friend and fellow genius Joan Clarke to give apples out to his fellow hut 8 cryptographers.…
Who has helped you along your path? That was the question posed in the last blog. Who was your Obi-wan, Morpheus or Pumbaa? I wonder if Luke, Neo or Simba took the time to offer some gratitude about how the…
Obi wan Kenobi hands Luke Skywalker his father’s lightsaber and urges, “You must learn the ways of the force”; Morpheus presents Neo a red pill and a blue pill, where the red pill offers, “To stay in wonderland and I…
In the annals of the history of science, stand people that have led a breakthrough. Isaac Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation; Charles Darwin, developed the basis of evolution through natural selection, Antoine Lavoisier discovered the role…