As part of my Nutrition for Sports Performance course, I was recently assigned to create a project (anything other than a written report) about a topic of my choice related to nutrition for a sport of my choice. Of course, there was no choice of a sport other than soccer, and the topic I decided [...]
Yesterday afternoon I worked as a Guest Coach at the 2nd 2015 TFC II Soccer Camp, run by International FC Academy (IFC) in Vaughan. Each 1-day edition of the Camps feature a guest player either from TFC's senior team, or the TFC II USL-Pro team. Yesterday the guest player was 20 year old attacking midfielder [...]
Below is a link to a very interesting article, written and posted by the www.Canadakicks.com website, which is dedicated to all things soccer and Canadian. The article highlights some unique aspects of the German soccer model, and some ways in which Canada can learn from - and copy off of - this model in order [...]
Yesterday afternoon I worked at the inaugural TFC II Soccer Camp, run by the staff of International Football Club (IFC) a soccer development company and academy located in Vaughan, Ontario. I am very familiar with IFC, as I have been providing fitness assessments and on-field fitness training for them for over 3 years, since the [...]
Canada’s 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup experience is over. It ended yesterday in their Quarter-Final match against England, when two costly first-half mistakes in the span of three minutes allowed the English team to build a 2-0 lead that the Canadians were not able to overcome, despite a good overall performance throughout the game. Although [...]
Canada's 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup experience is over. It ended yesterday in their Quarter-Final match against England, when two costly first-half mistakes in the span of three minutes allowed the English team to build a 2-0 lead that the Canadians were not able to overcome, despite a good overall performance throughout the game. Although [...]
In my most recent class, we were asked to write a small report explaining the concepts of reliability and validity as they relate to research methods, and subsequently to provide a sports science-related example of these two concepts. For me, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to profile my favourite soccer-specific fitness test, the Yo-Yo [...]
As the final assignment in my Advanced Exercise Physiology class, I had to write an 8-10 page paper about common training and nutritional "mistakes" in the sport or exercise of my choice. Of course, for me there was only ever one sport of choice! Below is the entire paper, including references. I'd love to know [...]
I am re-blogging a link to an excellent article, written by Max Shank and posted to www.t-nation.com, called "Running Deosn't Suck." Of course, I agree with this statement, and I think that the article makes some very good and valid scientific arguments as to why running does not suck. I'd love to know your thoughts [...]
Recently, in my Advanced Exercise Physiology class, I was given the assignment of writing a paper about the effectiveness of hydration on both the prevention of heat illnesses, as well as improvements in physical performance. As I went through the relevant literature, I quickly noticed that there seemed to be dozens - if not hundreds [...]