Maziar J. Hamad, MSc

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These results are also relevant as hip adduction strength is a modifiable risk factor for groin injuries and pain. 📊We hope this gives objective data to inform monitoring strategies and microcycle planning. What are your thoughts on groin strength monitoring in your environment and have you noticed similar patterns with your players? Looking forward to hearing your experiences! 👇

🎉 I'm happy to share that the second study of my PhD has been published! 🧵

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⚠️ Are you really measuring hip adduction strength… or just guessing? Without a standardized protocol, data is not reliable. Our new review shows how to test it. 💥 Precision = performance Comment “PROTOCOL” and share this post to get the full protocol!

💪⚽️| ¡El equipo juvenil B sigue trabajando fuerte! El pasado martes realizaron pruebas de fuerza de aductores y cadera para evaluar su nivel físico y prevenir lesiones. 🏋‍♂️

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 Excited to share our latest research: "Does Total Playing Time Affect the Neuromuscular, Physiological, and Subjective Recovery of Futsal Players during a Congested Period?" Check it out! 🏃‍♂️⚽️ mdpi.com/2075-4663/12/5… 🙏Thanks all the co-authors

There were no kids who tore they're ACL or UCL in the 80s... #LTAD

@DanAbrahams77 Amazing clip! I feel on the fence. While I certainly support sports science and load management, I do sometimes wonder if we’ve gone too far. I agree with your points though! Players should be involved and at least understand where we are coming from.

Have a watch of the video below…especially the last ten seconds where Wayne Rooney (seems to) bemoan the influence of sport science impinging on individual training time. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Mr Rooney has forgotten more about football than I’ll ever know… 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 …but I do wonder if the challenge he sets out in this short clip is less a sport science problem and more the need for managers and head coaches to develop the best communication approaches across departments (up and down the organisation as well). This feels more about managers and head coaches developing the ability (and knowledge-base) to sense-make with their staff and players to improve judgement and decision-making. Modern day management and head coaching in sport is so tough, in part, because of the increased expertise in sport science, sport psychology, and skill acquisition. I would argue we don’t want less information (although we do want more accurate information) - we want the ability to make best possible decisions in context in a world filled with information. Some might call this leadership! Whatever term or label you choose to affix, the reality is that the boss can (probably) no longer afford to be a lone wolf at the front of the pack bravely pushing forward but with little connection to the rest. The wolf (the boss) belongs in the middle of the pack…able to push to the front when needed, able to shift left and right when required, able to drop back when the need arises. Able to delegate to other wolves when required. A leader…a head coach…should look north and south and east and west! Analogies aside… -talk to sport science and get to understand the literature they’re working from and their reasoning for their approach -help them to understand your lens of the world…strive to find commonalities and a set of approaches that blend and balance approaches -invite players to be a key part of the decision-making process -measure the impact of decisions made about training activity -be flexible…individual training doesn’t have to be never, nor, five times a week -session design individual development during the 90-120 minute training window -establish longer term development plans that helps organise and rationalise individual learning …and so on! Leadership in modern day sport is hard. Managers and head coaches are forced to step out of their comfort zone…and they should be demanding that support staff do to. They should be bringing others in, exploiting their expertise, and reaping the benefits of an integrated, holistic approach to human development. Perhaps, in sum, who wants leadership in sport to be easy anyway? Why would that be fun? And how would that be rewarding?

Excited to share our recent publication examining CMJ jump variables in Futsal! 📚⚽ Our findings highlight performance disparities across competitive levels and playing positions, offering valuable insights for strength and conditioning coaches. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

An awesome video summarizing our recently published paper! Check it out!

Great to be involved, as always! Useful resource for T&F but also team-sports practitioners 🏃🏻🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏾‍♂️

“The Results of this Study Show That…” – Understanding Science to Inform Practice complementarytraining.net/the-results-of… @The_DanKadlec so good

Really interesting and thought-provoking, indeed. It’s a must read for everyone in both the scientific and S&C communities 📖 @IrineuLoturco

How many of your postgrad students do a replication study as part of their thesis? The 2023 Reproducibility and Research Integrity report from the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee recommends they should. committees.parliament.uk/publications/3…

Really enjoyed this paper 📝 on testing! Awesome work @JonathonWeakle1

Been a fan of contrast methods for sprint development for a long time! Resisted-assisted-normal accelerations seems effective for most, but never liked down hill sprints, alter mechanics to a great extent..

How to improve sprint performance? 🏃‍♂️💨 Uphill-downhill sprint training seems to be more effective than resisted and traditional sprint training 👇