Sports Thoughts Podcast

Sport – Who’s Responsible?

Sport: The Buck Stops with….. Modern sporting teams have a cast of thousands…………managers, sports scientists, medical staff, researchers, analysis experts, strength and conditioning professionals, Board members, media teams, marketing and advertising staff….it takes a lot of people to make sport happen. However, when it comes down to it, it is Read more…

Sports Thoughts Podcast

Punishing Athletes

The Pitfalls of Punishing Potential. Renowned coaching professional Wayne Goldsmith talks about punishing athletes for not performing, and offers some different ways to change their attitude and mindset. Originally broadcast on Radio Sport Mornings, Radio Sport NZ. Presented by Jason Pine.  

Performance Science and Why it’s time has come.

 

“In short science has its limitations. Western science is characterised by
reductionist principles; but we reach a point at which the reduction becomes
disassociated from the phenomena it is trying to explain” P.Jones 1998

It’s time.

It’s time for the Sports science industry to seriously change the way we do business.

It’s time we let go of  the outdated, simplistic single cause / single effect model of research and embraced a genuine integrated, multi disciplinary approach to solving performance problems.

It’s time for Performance Science to come of age. (more…)