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Pieter Van den Berghe
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Digital and social media Editor | driving engagement in sports medicine & exercise Science Journals (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Journal of Sports Sciences)
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🆕 Does technology assist physical activity engagement in adolescent girls and young women? Repeated cross-sectional analysis
January 25, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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🆕 The role of psychological and environmental characteristics in talent development in sport: A mixed methods study

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January 24, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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🆕 “I literally played seven minutes and then got scouted for England”: Player experiences of talent identification and development in women’s blind football
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January 23, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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🆕 What are the demands of volleyball match-play? A systematic review of the external and internal loads encountered according to playing position, number of sets, and player sex.

Including Open Data and Open Materials. Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10....
January 22, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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🆕 Expanding our understanding of talent development environments in English female youth football: Player, parent and coach perspectives

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January 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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The Journal of Sports Sciences has just published its first Registered Report since introducing this article type in 2021! Here, the introduction & methods were peer-reviewed before receiving the data. We look forward to receiving more of these articles.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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The Journal of Sports Sciences publishes research on various aspects of the sports and exercise sciences. So which research has been resonating strongly with the sports science community in the past year? The articles 👇 have been downloaded >100,000 times in 2025 alone!
January 19, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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Twenty-Four-Hour Low Energy Availability Induced by Diet or Exercise Exhibits Divergent Influences on Sleep and Recovery Indices among Female and Male Cyclists

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November 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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American College of Sports Medicine Expert Consensus Statement: Blood Doping in Sport
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December 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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A massive team effort to produce this joint ESSA & ACSM expert statement on “Physical Activity and Exercise Intensity Terminology”, which has been published in both JSaMS www.jsams.org/article/S144... & journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...
 
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December 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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New in MSSE: Adding blood flow restriction (BFR) during rest intervals of HIIT significantly boosts endurance performance — bigger gains in max power, time to exhaustion & faster 20 km trial times — without extra sprint or strength benefits.

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January 15, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Study by Department of Human Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan on Changes in Knowledge and Compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations Among Youth Baseball Coaches: A Cross-Sectional Comparison at Two Time Points www.dovepress.com/changes-in-k...
Changes in Knowledge and Compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations A | OAJSM
Examining how such changes have influence coaches’ knowledge and compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations Among Youth Baseball Coaches
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July 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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'Coach–athlete interaction in Muay Thai: A microethnographic analysis of skill learning in a real-world combat sport' - open access in Journal of Sports Sciences: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Coach–athlete interaction in Muay Thai: A microethnographic analysis of skill learning in a real-world combat sport
Coach–athlete interaction is a central component of skill learning in sports. When done well, interventions by a coach can shape an athlete’s perceptual, motivational, and physical capacities and d...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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🚨 Final form: journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab...

Big thanks to everyone involved!

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November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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For those skeptical short sprints could be so effective, many studies. See: ~12-16 min of intensity > 45 min of long slow distance: “High-intensity aerobic interval training resulted in significantly increased VO2max compared with long slow distance… (P < 0.01).” journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...
Bar chart showing percent change in absolute VO₂max (open bars) and absolute stroke volume (filled bars) from pre- to post-training across four exercise programs: LSD (long slow distance), LT (lactate threshold), 15/15 intervals, and 4×4 minute intervals. VO₂max and stroke volume changes are plotted on the y-axis from −5% to +15%. In LSD and LT groups, both VO₂max and stroke volume changes are minimal and near zero, with slight negative values in LSD. In the 15/15 group, VO₂max increases by about 5% and stroke volume increases by about 8%, with stroke volume showing statistical significance (*). In the 4×4 min interval group, VO₂max increases by approximately 7% and stroke volume by approximately 10%, both statistically significant (** to ***). Error bars show standard error. Statistical significance markers above bars indicate within-group significant changes: 15/15 shows *, and 4×4 shows ** and ***. Legend identifies open bars as VO₂max and filled bars as stroke volume.
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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david ginola, former professional soccer player, attending a motion capture session for fifa soccer 97 (1996) archive.org/details/play...
david ginola, sitting, shirtless, smiling, wearing motion capture gear/dots. david ginola, white singlet, blue jeans, dark cap, looking at a crt monitor along with 2 other dudes and 1 woman. david ginola, sitting at a computer in a cluttered space.
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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New US research:

Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation after Sub-Maximal Exercise in Individuals with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19

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#ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #LongCovid #PostExertionalMalaise
Purpose: In individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), physical activity can exacerbate symptoms for days-to-weeks, referred to as post-exertional symptom exacerbation (PESE). This study characterized the trajectory of PESE symptoms before and for 7 days after a sub-maximal exercise task in individuals with ME/CFS or PASC. Methods: Individuals with ME/CFS (n=30) or PASC (n=30) and matched controls (n=30) were recruited from a university hospital and the community setting. Participants completed a 25-minute moderate intensity exercise on a whole-body cycle ergometer. The trajectory of 8 commonly reported PESE symptoms (physical fatigue, mental fatigue, pain, physical function, flu-like symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms, sleep dysfunction, anxiety) before and for 7 days after exercise. Results: There was variability in the proportion of those who experienced increased symptoms ranging from 46/60 reporting physical fatigue to only 18/30 reporting anxiety. There was no change in any of the symptoms across the 7-day period when analyzed individually. An aggregate score of 4-5 symptoms that includes physical fatigue, mental fatigue, physical function and flu-like symptoms, with or without pain, was more comprehensive in capturing maximal changes in PESE. Changes were greatest during the 72h post-exercise and for those with ME/CFS. The aggregate score shows 8/30 of individuals with ME/CFS and 12/30 with PASC show minimal-to-no increase in PESE, while 6-7/30 show increases greater than 3/10 points. Conclusions: PESE to a clinically relevant exercise task is variable in individuals with ME/CFS and PASC as submaximal exercise does not exacerbate symptoms for some, while modifications of intensity may be necessary to minimize PESE in others.
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Ai niin, julkaisu-uutisia!

Mun eka ykklskirjoittama huippulehdessä julkaistu juttu on nähnyt päivänvalon 🥳🎉

💡Metabolisen terveyden näkökulmasta kannattaa liikkua läpi aikuisuuden ja treenata lihaskuntoa 💪

Tulossa avoimeksi, sitten tarkemmin löydöksistä.

Thx @eerohaapala.bsky.social 💎
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November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Nog 113 dagen tot de Omloop.
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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New study exploring a potential strategy for increasing affective responses during exercise while emphasizing the need to rigorously test related auxiliary assumptions and determine an SESOI for confirmatory research:
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Making the exercise experience more pleasurable: Exploring the psychological effect of allowing intensity adjustments during exercise
Feeling good during exercise is a key predictor of whether people stay active. One factor thought to influence this is whether exercisers perceive control over their training intensity. A meta-anal...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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7/7

This highlights the importance of training specificity (i.e. long runs) and higher mileage for sustaining economy during prolonged exercise – key for events from 10k to marathon.

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Regular Long Runs and Higher Training Volumes are... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
rences in RE durability. Therefore, this study aimed to compare RE durability during a 90 min run and the decrements in neuromuscular capabilities, between athletes that did, or did not, practice regu...
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August 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Hot But Not Cold Water Immersion Mitigates the Decline in Rate of Force Development Following Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage
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Hot But Not Cold Water Immersion Mitigates the Decline in... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
mage (EIMD) is lacking. Methods Thirty physically active males completed an individualized and tailored EIMD protocol immediately followed by one of the following recovery interventions: cold water...
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November 17, 2024 at 10:15 PM