Kerry MacDonald PhD

Organizations with great "Culture", simply have a clear purpose, aligned standards of behaviour, and a leadership team that understands their role. Great coaches are then accountable officers of the essential standards & principles that we see play out within their teams.

Lovely summary of the evidence available for the different recovery methods & mechanisms available from @ShonaHalson Unfortunately social media is making the top of this pyramid the most popular despite the lack of evidence V. diff effects of acute v long term use

A great study and good evidence to be considering maturation within talent id/development pathways.

@highest_octane @DrSianAllen Start at 7, specialize at 15

@Kerryjmac @DrSianAllen Couldn't find football/soccer here

Great post by @DrSianAllen. Important for volleyball clubs these days to realize that we are a late specialization sport. Don’t force kids to choose at younger levels.

“it is difficult to accept that the best learning road is slow, and that doing poorly now is essential for better performance later. It is so deeply counterintuitive that it fools the learners themselves” - David Epstein

A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition because familiarity is not easily distinguished from the truth.

Living longer/better doesn’t require a complicated routine. -don’t smoke - don’t drink more than 5/week - move - move more - keep moving - push and pull heavy things - sleep - have friends - find something that motivates you to get out of bed in the morning. - eat food that you prepare. Ignore most of the nutritional noise online. - maintain a normal blood pressure - maintain a normal ApoB - maintain a normal A1c - don’t like cold plunges.. good, avoid them. Don’t buy the nonsense. - if you don’t start w the above, then the supplements you take are irrelevant. - are you optimizing the above? No? Then rapa isn’t going to do much either. - tracking your sleep? Maybe that’s making your sleep worse. - feel better when you see a high “recovery” score? Feel worse if you don’t? Yep… ignore these black box algorithm scores. They’re nonsense. Simple strategies work. Longevity Simplified ;-) howardluksmd.com/book/

Pops strikes again. This is why I love this guy: espn.com/nba/story/_/id…

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication".

@TrackCoachMJR @stevemagness Thanks for insight. I find this very interesting. Is there a country that is doing it right?

@TrackCoachMJR @stevemagness Perhaps, although from my experience in Canada, working for a NSO is rarely the ticket to riches (excluding Hockey Canada perhaps). The decisions I see being made are frequently about how to maximize performance with limited resources. Because ⬆️🥇 = ⬆️💰 from OTP

Track and Field = dumbest sport at the pro level Imagine an NBA team saying “We’re only competing in the playoffs if we are a 5 seed or better” Yet, that’s what occurs every year in track. Countries decline spots/set higher standards then the governing body of the sport sets.

@hubermanlab stock value is plummeting in my books due to stuff like this. Cherry picking bad research to fit a narrative, or worse, trusting the authors statements without looking at the actual methods and results. #BeBetter

“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight.” - Daniel Kahneman.

@bittencourt_nfn Congrats Natalia!

New 🤩challenge!! Proud to be part of BAHIA team !! Director of Performance and Health! Sports ⚽️ science, team work and integration #BahiaEOMundo

I worked with @Dan_Cottrell at @RugbyCoachWeek to outline a clear distinction for coaches between sessions aimed improving performance and those aimed at improving learning, and when each type of session could be useful. You can find it here: rugbycoachweekly.net/rugby-coaching… 1/2

@andyhayher Just a bunch of children that are more concerned with popularity than actually helping people.

@ShakeyWaits If they (coaches) haven’t learnt (of a better way to develop motor skills), then we (as coach educators) haven’t taught. It is on us to provide better evidence, clearer language or more context specific examples. We carry the burden to create change.

Another thing I see is coaches using games as "fun" rewards for completing drills rather than for skill develop. E.g. in tennis they like to play "jail" where kids get players out by catching the ball with their hands. Can't we make a game where they are actually playing tennis?

Still getting a lot of Ecological Dynamics is just knocking down coaching "strawmen" and is just "old wine in new bottles" types of comments. Honestly, I just don't get it....🤷‍♂️

Turned out as well as I thought it might, sadly: sportsnet.ca/nba/nash-figur…