Tim Gabbett

NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER: Monitoring Training Effects in Athletes: A Multidimensional Framework for Decision-Making link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Grateful to have Dr. Tim Gabbett spend the past two days with our performance staff—diving into load management, performance, and injury prevention. Excited to put his insights into action! #SportsScience #TeamBehindTheTeam

@TopVelocity I agree 100%. Pitch counts might be where the research is at - but baseball people know not all pitches are created equally! And absolutely, upper- and lower-body power isn’t produced and absorbed in a vacuum!

Great work as always Tim. This is critical for baseball coaches to understand. One thing that gets overlooked — pitchers who generate more force from the lower half actually REDUCE upper-body load at the same velocity. Whiteside et al. (2016) showed higher GRF correlates with lower throwing arm stress. So load management isn't just about pitch counts and rest days — it's about HOW force is produced. Build the lower half, reduce the chronic arm load. That's the foundation of everything we do at TopVelocity.net 💪

NEW ARTICLE: Do Lower-Body Load-Injury Relationships Hold True for Upper-Body Sports? With baseball Spring training just around the corner, here’s a few tips to maintain arm health and capacity in athletes from upper-body sports. gabbettperformance.com.au/upper-body-loa…

3. Avoid excessive throwing volumes in-season & avoid shutting the arm down completely during off-season. Maintaining arm health through micro-dosed throwing loads & strength training, allows athletes to be prepared to build to moderately-high chronic throwing loads in-season.

2. Avoid spikes in training load, particularly in athletes with scapular dyskinesis and poor external rotational strength. Appropriately-dosed training load will provide the stimulus for the strength and neuromuscular control required to tolerate further training load.

Full episode on ⚽️ soccer load management, RECOVERY, and physical prep with @TimGabbett so you can TRAIN hard and BENEFIT from your trainings: youtube.com/watch?v=KDy5aV… @SimpliFaster

If you work in rehab at any level, this course will help develop your skills to take your athletes from acute injury right through to peak performance! Get in quick to take advantage of the 25% discount - offer closes January 31st! gabbettperformance.thinkific.com/courses/SandC-…

1. Load-response for tissues & systems 2. Return to sport 3. Speed, agility, RSA 4. Aerobic training 5. Exercises to ⬆️ local tissue, sport-specific & global capacity 6. Contrast training 7. Return to sprint ISO progressions 8. Practical training tips to ⬆️ your rehab programs!

Really pleased with the response to my new online course “Practical Strength & Conditioning for Rehab Professionals”. The course includes the latest applied science on:

3. Set realistic expectations. Elite athletes are called “elite” for a reason – it’s because they are rare! And world-class 10-year-old athletes are close to non-existent!

2. Sample a variety of sports. This will foster the development of flexible and adaptable movement skills.

NEW ARTICLE: When it Comes to World-Class Performance, There’s No Such Thing as an Elite 10-Year-Old! gabbettperformance.com.au/no-such-thing-…

When I talk about “read and react” agility drills, I’m not talking about reacting to flashing lights! If you want your athletes to have game-specific anticipation skills, you have to train it! gabbettperformance.com.au/pre-planned-ta…

3. Incorporate game-specific “read and react” drills into the return-to-sport process. If rehab professionals focus solely on pre-planned change of direction factors, then at best, they will only solve half of the agility challenge!

2. Ensure fundamental movement skill (re)training underpins the return to agility process. If athletes cannot move well in closed, pre-planned movements, they will not move well in open, unpredictable tasks involving higher cognitive demands.

NEW ARTICLE: When Returning Athletes to Sports Involving Cutting Movements, Non-Specific Pre-Planned Tasks Just Don’t Cut It! gabbettperformance.com.au/pre-planned-ta…