PhD submitted 🤯 Looking forward to the viva in the new year! 📚 Now time to put the feet up and enjoy Christmas 🎄

🚨 New @JOSPT blog 🚨 Designing practice “on the road” when returning to sport in the NBA – finding structure amidst the chaos of the play-offs 🏀 Open access 🔓 https://t.co/zOEnd579yE @singh_harjiv @BryceVMurphy @JasonAvedesian @DeanLittle @Bballphysio

We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Academy Physiotherapist to join our team at @SheffieldUnited to work within our Professional Development Phase programme ⚔️ Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the role. https://t.co/HaanBSqOwV

Youth sports specialization road to nowhere: $400 for a bat $200 for sneakers $2500 for club team $$$$$ to travel to tourneys But no investment into becoming faster, stronger, or more athletic...

Delighted to have passed my PhD viva, subject to minor amendments🥳 Thanks to Professor @mckenn01LBU and Dr @John_Radnor for a fantastic viva experience, and to Professor @ktconditioning , Dr Ian Cowburn, and Professor @Joe_Eisenmann for their brilliant supervision💪🏼📚

🚨Evolving the Control-Chaos Continuum: Part 2️⃣ - Shifting ‘Attention’ to Progress On-Pitch Rehabilitation ⚽️ @JOSPT 🔓OPEN ACCESS🔓 https://t.co/Kk3OdsZEyt

Sheffield United FC, Academy Physical Performance Coach. https://t.co/VsBQlfVtAM

Opportunity available to oversee the u9’s-u16s provision at SUFC. Great opportunity to work within a forward thinking department. Get in touch if you have any questions about the role.

Thanks to all involved, especially @ktconditioning @ihjcowburn @Joe_Eisenmann for their supervision throughout 🙌🏻

70% of kids drop out of organised sports by the age of 13*, but imagine if we lived in a world where every child could have access to positive sporting experience. Join our mission and help transform the youth sports space👇 https://t.co/1T2O0Fsiy5 #ICOACHKIDS #sportscoach

We're looking for a Sport Psychologist with extensive experience to lead our sport psychology programme here at @SheffieldUnited! ⚔ If you have any questions about the role, please feel free to reach out. https://t.co/7R2hBeuiQm

Fantastic to see this paper now available and it’s open access! We asked sport practitioners about how they plan, do review their environments for the participants they work with.

@ihjcowburn @Joe_Eisenmann @Tom_Sawczuk @TJW092898 @jackmcdermott0 @ktconditioning

Practical applications (3/3) 3) Regular assessment of health-related characteristics across youth is important to inform and monitor interventions 🏃🏻🤸🏽‍♂️🤾🏻‍♂️⛹🏻‍♀️🏋🏻🏊🧗🏻🚴‍♀️

Practical applications (2/3) 2) Age effects and maturity associations suggest that youth need exposure across all domains to enhance health outcomes (multiple environments important; different programmes needed for boys and girls; timing of interventions?) 🤔

Practical applications (1/3): 1) Low scores, high variability, sex differences, age effects and maturity associations across characteristics = BIG & COMPLEX CHALLENGE for PE and sport policy makers 🤯

Key findings (2/2) 3) Few small age affects present across health-related characteristics 4) Several associations observed between maturity offset and health-related characteristics, but different for boys and girls 📈

Key findings (1/2): 1) Health-relate characteristics (e.g., motor competence, CV endurance) are low compared to similar populations, and highly variable among this cohort 📉🚩 2) Sex differences observed across most characteristics in favour of boys compared to girls 👦 👧

Measures: 1) Motor competence (Dragon Challenge) 🤸🏼‍♀️ 2) Physical fitness (IMPT, CMJ, 10m, 505, MSFT) 🏋🏻 3) Psychosocial (Physical self-perception profile, BREQ-2) 🧠 4) Physical activity (Adolescent physical activity recall questionnaire) 🏃🏻‍♂️

Sample: 9- to 14-year-old boys (n=136) and girls (n=81) from a UK state secondary school, and feeding primary school 🔎