Lorcán Mason

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Sports Science Featured

Internal Training Load Monitoring

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Sports Science Featured

Tracking Systems in Team Sports

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Long Term Athletic Development

Considerations & Guidelines on Athletic Development for Adolescent Athletes

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Speed Development Featured

Resisted Sprinting (RS) & Its Role in Developing Sprinting Performance

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Small Sided Games Featured

A Synopsis of Small-Sided Games & Area per Player

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Gaelic Games Featured

The Science of Gaelic Football

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Strength and Conditioning Featured

Agility in Invasion Sports: Position Stand of the International Universities Strength and Conditioning Association (IUSCA)

Invasion sports are team games in which the purpose is to invade the opponents’ territory while trying to score points and minimise the opposition’s scoring. A parameter closely associated with effective movement is agility, and this is generally considered to be a key component of performance.

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Sports Psychology Featured

High-Performance Training for Sports: Chapter 9 - Understanding & Influencing Interpersonal Dynamics in the Training Environment

Communication is a skill worth learning to accomplish your objectives through shared commitment as opposed to blind compliance and must be thorough & thoughtful. Perception isn’t just a central theme of skilled communication & influence; it's the binding that holds the entire process together.

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Speed Development Featured

The Use of Sled Training to Improve Sprint Performance in Team Sport Athletes

Team sport athletes should not be trained like sprinters (or vice versa) when implementing Sled Training as distinct athletes will respond differently to similar loads. A consensus has not yet been reached; thus, the most appropriate & effective loading condition is still unclear.

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Sports Science Featured

Sleep, Sleep Deprivation & The Role of Napping: A Brief Introduction

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Small Sided Games

Small-Sided Games in Elite Football: Practical Solutions Without Goalkeepers to Replicate the 4-min Match-Derived Maximal Intensities

The purpose of the study was to determine the area per player to replicate the maximal 4-min match-play period using small-sided or large-sided games lasting the same duration in elite football players.

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Small Sided Games

Small-Sided Games in Elite Football: Practical Solutions With Goalkeepers to Replicate the 4-min Match-Derived Maximal Intensities

The purpose of the study was to determine the area per player to replicate the maximal 4-min match-play period using small-sided or large-sided games lasting the same duration in elite football players.

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Small Sided Games

Small-Sided Games in Elite Football: Practical Solutions to Replicate the 4-min Match-Derived Maximal Intensities

The purpose of the study was to determine the area per player to replicate the maximal 4-min match-play period using small-sided or large-sided games lasting the same duration in elite football players.

Strength and Conditioning Featured

Principles of a Physical Development Session Structure

A very simple graphic of some key considerations that can aid your physical development session structure design.

Sports Science Featured

Effective Use of Sports Science Technology

Technology implemented by the performance & medicine departments are dependent on its ability to reliability and accurately quantify the training dose and the individual response. This information in turn is then used to inform and assist the actions that are taken in the training process.

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Planning Considerations for Session Design

A simple graphic demonstrating many of the variables that must be considered during the planning process in sport.

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Coach Pedagogy Featured

Developing a Philosophy for Life & Coaching

Establishing a philosophy is a fundamental process not only for coaching but for life itself. This philosophy underpins your everyday actions and behaviours, and influences how you react to specific situations and environments that you may encounter throughout your life.

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Sports Science Featured

Cold Water Immersion as a Recovery Strategy in High Performance Athletes

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Football

Positional High-Intensity Efforts in Elite Soccer

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High-Intensity Movement in Soccer

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Football

Physical Demands of Soccer

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Football

Positional Activity Profiles of 11 vs. 11 Professional Football: Variations Across Common Playing Formations

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Football

Match Physical Performance of Elite Female Soccer Players

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Football

Match Day Nutrition - UEFA Expert Group Consensus Statement

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Football

Training Day Nutrition - UEFA Expert Group Consensus Statement