Wouter Timmerman

@timmermanwouter delivering a fascinating talk on the decision making around training modifications - highlighting the value of the qualitative data!

FULL PROGRAM of the Sports Tech Research & Innovation Summit 2024 is now live! 🙌 🔥 We couldn't be more excited about all these speakers and organizations coming together! 🫵 Which panel or speaker are you most looking forward to seeing? 🎟️ Tickets at strn.co/summit/tickets

🎤👤 WHO? @IneVanCaekenber, Ben Smith, @timmermanwouter, and @PeterDuking 💬💥 WHAT? A Co-creation session about kicking up the end-user's voice in sports innovation and implementation processes 📆📍 WHEN? Friday 20 September 2:45 PM (STRN Summit day 2) #STRNSummit2024

PSA: the current minimum Australian RTP stipend is $11,771 below the national minimum wage, with no superannuation entitlement and no ability to pay off (rapidly indexed) HECS loans. If you care about PhD students in Aus, please sign the petition: shorturl.at/yAs83

"Athlete monitoring perspectives of sports coaches and support staff: A scoping review" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17… More about this and related topics during the upcoming @STRN_SportsTech Summit in September!

@DrSianAllen @YLMSportScience, this content might potentially be suitable for an infographic. If it would be deemed suitable, I'm definitely keen to assist.

The more things we monitor, the more value we get... right? Conclusions from this review of how Sport Scientists & Coaches perceive athlete monitoring: "While athlete monitoring has generally been seen as valuable, coaches and support staff tended to expect the effectiveness to be higher" Proposed reasons for this gap: 🔹 A lack of time, expertise, and resources 🔹 Having to obtain athlete buy-in, adherence and compliance 🔹 Ensuring valid and reliable data collection and accurate interpretation 🔹 Over-hyped marketing claims of athlete monitoring technologies 🔹 Over-simplification of the relationships between monitoring variables and sports performance / injury

@DrSianAllen Thanks for this post @DrSianAllen, it's great to see the engagement with this topic!

From my experience, this scoping review is significant to support the importance of perceiving players as human-individuals (not machines) "athlete monitoring extends beyond quantitative information and encompasses non-quantified subjective information" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

➡ Central role of coaches and support staff: Amidst the rise of AI coaches and support staff will continue to have a central role within collecting, analysing and interpreting athlete monitoring data and information

Excited to share our paper: "Athlete Monitoring Perspectives of Sports Coaches and Support Staff: A Scoping Review" ✅🔓journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @AbbissC @NathanGLawler @stanley_mandy @a_araynor @MHS_ECU @EdithCowanUni @MurdochUni #research #sports #coach #athlete #monitor

@stanley_mandy Thanks Mandy! Looking forward to celebrate some more soon

@ahbossi @EdinburghNapier That's amazing news! You deserve this, congratulations

Happy to share that I’m starting a new position as a Lecturer in Sport, Exercise and Health at @EdinburghNapier! Thanks to everyone who engaged with me following the tweet below a few months ago. I received a lot of support and that made a massive difference!

We have two PhD positions available at the University of Bologna (Italy) starting the 1st of November 2023. One is "The use of wireless dynamometers to support resistance training and strength assessment in different populations" in collaboration with Kinvent,

@andykirkland71 I’m not advocating to just mindlessly collecting everything and anything but to challenge the idea that data should be immediately applicable.

@andykirkland71 It depends, but not all data needs to be applicable immediately. Some data is only useful over time and for other data our processing methods or understanding is not good enough (yet?). But having that longitudinal data will be valuable whenever our understanding gets there

When data in on individual athletes exceeds the amount that can be processed & applied meaningfully in a ‘complex system’ then is there any point in collecting it?

@bmgsport 🎉🎉🎉

“One day, the mountain that is in front of you will be so far behind you, it will barely be visible in the distance. But the person you become in learning to get over it? That will stay with you forever. And that is the point of the mountain.” PhD ✅. Let's find a new mountain!

Thanks to my supervisors @a_araynor @stanley_mandy @AbbissC @NathanGLawler for their expertise and support and @EdithCowanUni @MHS_ECU Also a massive thanks to the world-class coaches who generously gave me their time and shared their perspectives

Already a week ago since I presented part of my PhD research on world-class endurance sports coaching at @E_C_S_S Paris and almost a month at @CRiC_SCR Liverpool Great to catch up with friends and meet new people If you’re interested in my research feel free to reach out