Football
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Sport Science – Acute to Chronic Workload Ratio
Optimizing Athletic Performance with Workload Ratios
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Exercise Science Corner – Lower-Extremity Biomechanical Characteristics of College American Football Starters: Examining the Squat, Lunge, and Vertical Jump.
July 22nd, 2025 | Lawrence, KS, USA Link to article can be found here American football is a dynamic sport characterized by intense sporting actions such as blocking, tackling, jumping, and sprinting. Furthermore, these sporting actions often require athletes to repeatedly achieve extreme ranges of motion such as deep flexion and hyperextension. PURPOSE The aim…
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Recent Football Publication in Top 5%
07/22/25 | Lawrence, KS, USA Profiling physical characteristics of athletic performance plays a critical role in the development of athletes. Beyond that, assessing these characteristics at a research grade can provide unique insights. Our recent publication titled, “Key Performance Indicators for College American Football Starters: An Exploratory Study” is in the top 5% of all…
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1. What is Sport Science?
Sport science can be thought of as a scientific process used to guide the practice of sport with the ultimate aim of improving sporting performance. As technology advances, coaches, scientists, and teams are facing paralysis by analysis (too much data, too little time). However, a sport science perspective can help organize approaches, sort through the…