Blog Posts – The Athlete Development Project

A quick Guide to a Jumping, Landing & Plyometric Continuum

Posted on 14th June 2022 (15th June 2022) by Ben Bradley

As part of a good athletic development programme it is key to have a movement syllabus or competency framework to guide athletic development, inform programming and ensure our athletes are getting the right stimulus and challenge from their S&C programme to give them the desired outcomes that will improve performance in their Sport. As we […]

The Evolution of the Modern Day Centre-Back: From Baresi and Beckenbauer to Ruben Dias

Posted on 25th October 2021 (25th October 2021) by Ben Bradley

Blogpost written by Hugo Ferreira former performance Analyst at SC Braga and AFC Bournemouth. Over the last few decades, our generation of Football passionate people have grown watching astonishing centre-backs who still fill us with nostalgia when we travel down memory lane to past international tournaments or UEFA Champions league finals back in the 90s […]

The use of small-sided game formats as individualised training stimuli for football playing positions.

Posted on 21st June 2021 (22nd June 2021) by Ben Bradley

Blogpost Written by Dr Will Abbott By now it is clear the competitive demands of football differ between playing positions. Central defenders have been shown to produce the lowest total and high-speed distances during competition, whilst central midfielders produce the highest total distances (Abbott et al., 2018; Bradley et al., 2009; O’Donoghue et al., 2005). […]

Match Day Nutrition for Youth Footballers

Posted on 16th April 2021 (16th April 2021) by Ben Bradley

There’s no doubt that hard work on the training ground and sound tactics suited to the opposition and the game are key to success in a football match. But how well you actually play on the day is going to come down to how well fuelled you are. Just as teams will have a match […]

Training Day Nutrition for Youth Footballers

Posted on 14th February 2021 (14th December 2021) by Ben Bradley

The role nutrition plays in football performance cannot be overlooked. It’s key to both mental and physical performance in the preparation for and recovery from a session. What a player fuels with and when they fuel will have a direct impact on lots of different areas of performance from strength and speed to accuracy and […]

Research Reports – Relative age and maturation selection biases in academy Football.

Posted on 20th January 2021 (20th January 2021) by Ben Bradley

Research Reports brings you lead authors from published research articles so you can hear all about the research, key aims and take home messages straight from the source. These short, easily digestible videos make it simple and easy to understand the work and its context. This Research Report is by Megan Hill who discusses her […]

Research Reports – Skeletal maturation status is more strongly associated with academy selection than birth quarter.

Posted on 7th November 2020 (13th January 2021) by Ben Bradley

Nutrition for Youth Athletes

Posted on 23rd October 2020 (25th October 2020) by Ben Bradley

Emmy Campbell, BSc., MSc, SENr., Registered Nutritionist

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Individualising speed and acceleration thresholds for training load monitoring

Posted on 12th October 2020 (18th August 2021) by Ben Bradley

Blog Post written by Dr. Will Abbott Determining associations between training load and injury occurrence in team sports has been a popular topic of research in recent years. A fine balance exists between applying the optimum training stimulus to promote adaptation, and exceeding the optimum stimulus, which is associated with a higher incidence of injury […]

Introducing The Athlete Development Project: Hello world!

Posted on 2nd April 2020 (8th April 2021) by Ben Bradley

Hello World! I say that in the hope that somebody is listening, or in this case reading. What I really hope is that I am talking to many people and you are all accessing this from up and down the UK, across Europe and around the World. The internet gives us an opportunity to connect […]

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