We are excited to announce that Sam Contorno of @texasfootball will be speaking at the Sport Science Symposium. She will join an expert panel exploring the application of training load concepts in team sport environments. Sam is currently the Associate Director of Applied Sport

Our first speaker announcement for the 2026 Sport Science Symposium taking place May 29-31 in Houston, TX is Ola Eriksrud. Ola Eriksrud an associate professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in exercise science. He is also a co-founder and head of science at

🔝"On-field rehab supports ACL-reconstructed ⚽️ players’ return to team training, with ⬆️ RTC rates (84%) for those completing a 5-staged period" ➡️However, workload remained ⬇️ compared to MP 👉@FilippoPicinini @m_buckthorpe et al. 2025 🇮🇹 📂Open Access: https://t.co/FD0uOBEs4I

Christmas came early 🎄

The Sport Science Handbook is available now! 👉 https://t.co/pPt5cR2Nmv What is The Sport Science Handbook? It is a practical, no-fluff guide that helps coaches, athletes, and practitioners turn data into action and make better decisions. It gives you the frameworks, mental

Principles vs. Tools The fastest car is useless if you don’t know where you’re going. Speed only matters once direction is clear. Sport science is no different. Principles provide the map, tools provide the acceleration. Without principles, tools just move you faster toward

Improvement lives in the quality of your decisions, not the quantity of your data. You can track every metric in the world… but unless you act on it, nothing changes.

The best solutions aren’t copied from somewhere else. They’re built to fit your own environment: your people, your culture, your constraints. Copying someone else’s system often looks good on paper, but it rarely works in practice. Strong sport science grows from the inside

Embrace Uncertainty Uncertainty isn’t a problem to eliminate—it’s the reality we work in. Trouble comes when we treat information as if it gives absolute answers. It rarely does. Every piece of information carries assumptions, limitations, and missing context. Embracing

In sport science, the most common mistake is starting with data instead of decisions. It’s not that this approach never works, but more often than not, it leads to piles of numbers with no clear path to action. The most effective systems start with the decision you need to

What is sport science? Sport science isn’t dashboards, force plates, or a wall of metrics. Those are just tools. Real sport science is about applying information to improve athlete performance and health — in messy, complex, real-world environments. That means: • Starting

6 years in the making. The Sport Science Handbook launches August 2025 — a practical blueprint for coaches, sport scientists, and practitioners who want to make better decisions in sport. This project wouldn’t exist without the many brilliant people who generously contributed

A good process makes smart decisions repeatable. A bad process makes mistakes repeatable.

Load management isn’t about doing less. It’s about doing the right amount at the right time.

Training Load and Its Role in Injury Prevention: Back to the Future 👉 https://t.co/I7fbTp8bKQ

Data is only as useful as the decision it informs. Start with the decision. Then find the best way to inform it.

Data without context is noise. Context without data is opinion. You need both to make good decisions.

Recovery doesn’t happen because you took a day off. It happens because you built a system that allows adaptation.

These are also good. (via Aurélien Vautier)

Many data visualization best practices in one simple cheat sheet. Save this. (via Aurélien Vautier)