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Me, @OccelliValeria and @nicola_vr are recruiting participants for our study. £20 reward for taking part!

@nerjiyullahi They're getting what they want from life.

What's the clearest sign that someone is genuinely doing well in life?

@BillyYang Big showdown at Western States 🤞

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@JohnDuttenhofer @CostelloWilliam Bit of a drastic measure, even in the name of science.

@CostelloWilliam Lighting that makes your body look good often makes your face look macabre. Cut his head off and run it again.

In the first reply to this poll there is a picture of Olly Murs before and after a 12 week gym transformation. Do you think he looks better before or after? Are you male or female?

Endurance athletes of all makes, models, and levels. Please go to the links below and do your bit for sport science! I promise the results of these surveys will 1) emerge here on my X feed, 2) inform my research process and 3) be integrated into my talks and teaching. Each survey only takes 2-5 minutes! forms.gle/QCkk8PX4mH4ton… 1. Listening habits during training forms.gle/6TXCZFdtSJVimX… 2. Strength training questions forms.gle/w4NoxvE9Fgynza… 3 A Have you ever….? Geeky stuff version forms.gle/Z1Qp1S8pdo8D5i… 3 B Have You ever….? Embarrassing or painful stuff forms.gle/PREhpHNwmM13dk… #5 Rest and Recovery forms.gle/gnCTCoXsyDYWbt… #6 Measuring HR and HR max forms.gle/9dc2AuntJN4K4P… #7 Injuries and Medical Diagnoses forms.gle/enNaHBt7NboFsy… #8 Lungs and Breathing during Exercise

@MountainRoche He’s cooking! 🔥

Today was my hardest workout before the Javelina 100—an uphill treadmill supercompensation session accumulating 60 minutes of intervals at 10% grade, starting at threshold and ending harder. I think uphill treadmill threshold sessions can be magical for some athletes. Threshold work is classically defined as LT2 or easier, around what you could sustain for 1 hour. In practice, that feels relatively relaxed at first, and it only starts to get harder after you accumulate a substantial amount of volume. The rationale of threshold work is that it improves lactate shuttling, helping mitochondria be more efficient at processing and transporting lactate, preventing fatigue cascades even at harder efforts on other days (or at easier efforts in marathons or ultras). In other words, it’s primarily an aerobic stress. Faster is not better. The real-world obstacles with threshold work are twofold. First, for most of us, it’s pretty slow when done right, or way too hard when done wrong. A study on the training of elite athletes found that long intervals had the lowest correlation with long-term growth, and this conundrum is probably why—athletes do their long intervals too hard, breaking themselves down without the mechanical or aerobic stimulus to justify it. Second, outdoor threshold work can be an injury risk. If I tried this workout outdoors, it would wreck my calves and high hamstrings for days. The uphill treadmill can help athletes get around these hurdles. It’s slower by design, putting the emphasis squarely on the aerobic system. That helps athletes develop a much more precise understanding of threshold. But perhaps most significantly, the uphill treadmill reduces impact forces immensely. When I finish one of these—even a supercompensation session—I feel fine the next day, allowing me to absorb way more work (and more specific work to my goals). Particularly with age, I find that running training is about managing the efforts that are high impact to be limited and focused. While most of the uphill treadmill work I do is very controlled, it’s also ok to occasionally dig deeper. Today was about supercompensation. It’s not called The Pain Cave for nothing 🔥

Could you help us develop a toolkit for use by professionals with caregivers who have a cancer diagnosis? You will be paid £40 voucher for your time. Online or face to face events. Get in touch Wrighlo@edgehill.ac.uk 👍

We’ve had a great response so far. If you’d like to get involved, please get in touch!

@dcoxpolls @CostelloWilliam It’s time to start taking loneliness more seriously.

We conducted a major survey on the state of civic life in America. The most jaw-dropping finding was the rapid decline in social connections among Americans without degrees. Nearly 1/4 have no close friends.

@Sale_ExNut In-principle acceptance the best way to tackle this?

New departmental assistantship available within the Department of Psychology at MIC: mic.ul.ie/faculty-of-art…

💛 It's Tour de France week! 💛 💛 Le #TDF2024 commence cette semaine ! 💛

Great to see this think-aloud during cycling paper published. Well done @PsychedUpRob & @marchantdave . Available at: journalofsportbehavior.org/index.php/JSB/…

@AndyRenfree Brutal session 🤣

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@a_whitehead1 @marchantdave @CroninLorcan Thanks Amy!

~ 3.5 second difference between Think Aloud and control conditions. Think Aloud can be used to capture in-event cognitions with confidence that it will not hinder self-paced endurance performance.

🚨New paper🚨‘Using Think Aloud to Investigate the Relationships Between Cognition, Psychophysiology, and Self-Paced Cycling Time-Trial Performance: A Methodological Examination.’ Thanks to co-authors @marchantdave @CroninLorcan. Link: tinyurl.com/TA-cycling-stu…

“I constantly remind people: when you walk into a room, stand tall with your shoulders back – you are from Wigan.” 📔 @krisradlinski1 in this week’s diary #Echobox=1717403775-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newstatesman.com/diary/2024/06/…

@BenjiNaesen Bicycle Thieves

Recently watched the original 2001: A Space Oddyssey (1968) & The Magnificent Seven (1960). Any other classics I'm missing out on?

@cyclingweekly This really hit home for me, especially the cold garage part!

I lost the joy in cycling - here's why I broke up with my coach trib.al/LFq9Ewz