by Spencer Roberts | Aug 12, 2020 | Cycling, HIIT, Research, Sleep
Introduction Sleep has long been considered a vital recovery behaviour needed for athletic success (1). However, athletes often sleep poorly due to the effects of early morning training (2), trans-meridian travel (3), mental battles with pre-competition thoughts and...
by Arthur Bossi | Aug 10, 2020 | Cycling, HIIT, Research
Background In Brazil, where I come from, there is an enormous demand for cycling coaching services, but relatively few coaches. This context enabled me to find my niche straight after finishing my degree in sports science. As a mountain biking coach since 2010, I have...
by Paul Laursen | Aug 8, 2020 | HIIT
August 10th 2020: HIIT Science, a company on a mission to improve the effective application of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in sport, today announced a strategic partnership with Playermaker — the industry standard in smart footwear technology — a...
by Paul Laursen | Jul 4, 2020 | HIIT, Rugby, Speed
Julien Robineau (right in picture) is the S&C coach for the French male rugby sevens team and is one of the lecturers for our Rugby 7’s course. In addition to his field-based duties, Julien is also an applied researcher, who obtained his PhD in 2013 in the area of...
by Martin Buchheit and Matthew Brown | Jun 16, 2020 | HIIT
Fitness testing is an important part of the pre-season player screening process (1). Depending on cultures and preferences, various submaximal or maximal tests are used in soccer, including continuous linear (e.g., treadmill tests, Vam-Eval (2)), continuous non-linear...
by Jordan Cassidy | Jun 14, 2020 | HIIT, Rugby, Speed
I’m currently a sports scientist for the Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU) Elite Rugby Program (ERP), and also an athletic development coach for the HKRU 7’s academy. In this post I discuss the ERP’s August 2019 pre-season block, where we focused on speed training, with...
