Lizzie Fluke
@lizziefluke.bsky.social
Director I Head of Performance I previously @LC_Lionesses @Malmo_FF 🇸🇪|🇪🇺+More. The Future is Now
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My latest LinkedIn post breaks down real data from a New Zealand defender vs the USA—think 326% more high-speed running and record-breaking speeds
June 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
My latest LinkedIn post breaks down real data from a New Zealand defender vs the USA—think 326% more high-speed running and record-breaking speeds
🩺⚕️ Today, FIFPRO unveiled 12 new safety standards backed by 70 experts to protect athletes from excessive workload. Highlights: guaranteed off-season breaks, retraining periods, and mandatory rest after long-haul travel. Global standards for player welfare are long overdue.
June 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
🩺⚕️ Today, FIFPRO unveiled 12 new safety standards backed by 70 experts to protect athletes from excessive workload. Highlights: guaranteed off-season breaks, retraining periods, and mandatory rest after long-haul travel. Global standards for player welfare are long overdue.
📌⚽ How do international match loads compare to club Elite professional football in the lead up to #WEURO2025?
Click on the link here👇🏻
linkedin.com/posts/asccli...
Click on the link here👇🏻
linkedin.com/posts/asccli...
June 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
📌⚽ How do international match loads compare to club Elite professional football in the lead up to #WEURO2025?
Click on the link here👇🏻
linkedin.com/posts/asccli...
Click on the link here👇🏻
linkedin.com/posts/asccli...
May 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Early download: My GPS-Guided Hamstring Rehab Reference Guide is available now on LinkedIn-before it appears on my website/blog!
✅ For sports med (SEM's), S&C, rehab, and team sport practitioners
✅ Practical tables, PRM flow, GPS metrics, and evidence-based references
✅ For sports med (SEM's), S&C, rehab, and team sport practitioners
✅ Practical tables, PRM flow, GPS metrics, and evidence-based references
May 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Early download: My GPS-Guided Hamstring Rehab Reference Guide is available now on LinkedIn-before it appears on my website/blog!
✅ For sports med (SEM's), S&C, rehab, and team sport practitioners
✅ Practical tables, PRM flow, GPS metrics, and evidence-based references
✅ For sports med (SEM's), S&C, rehab, and team sport practitioners
✅ Practical tables, PRM flow, GPS metrics, and evidence-based references
📌 Unlock the details behind my 8-stage #HamstringRehab GPS framework:
🟢 GPS metrics
🟢 Pain-controlled progression (PRM)
🟢 Clear reference tables, easy to use & evidence-based guidance
🟢 GPS metrics
🟢 Pain-controlled progression (PRM)
🟢 Clear reference tables, easy to use & evidence-based guidance
May 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
📌 Unlock the details behind my 8-stage #HamstringRehab GPS framework:
🟢 GPS metrics
🟢 Pain-controlled progression (PRM)
🟢 Clear reference tables, easy to use & evidence-based guidance
🟢 GPS metrics
🟢 Pain-controlled progression (PRM)
🟢 Clear reference tables, easy to use & evidence-based guidance
🔥 Player Speed
Faster players → More sprints, more fatigue → I.e. Central nervous system - brain and muscle
Age & Fitness Older/less fit → Longer recovery
Individualised Recovery: Durability
How well do the team and Individuals recover. 1,2,3 days?
Faster players → More sprints, more fatigue → I.e. Central nervous system - brain and muscle
Age & Fitness Older/less fit → Longer recovery
Individualised Recovery: Durability
How well do the team and Individuals recover. 1,2,3 days?
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🔥 Player Speed
Faster players → More sprints, more fatigue → I.e. Central nervous system - brain and muscle
Age & Fitness Older/less fit → Longer recovery
Individualised Recovery: Durability
How well do the team and Individuals recover. 1,2,3 days?
Faster players → More sprints, more fatigue → I.e. Central nervous system - brain and muscle
Age & Fitness Older/less fit → Longer recovery
Individualised Recovery: Durability
How well do the team and Individuals recover. 1,2,3 days?
Factors Affecting Recovery in Football Players
🧠 Brain, Lungs and Legs
🔥 Match Intensity
Higher intensity → Longer recovery needed
🦵🏻 Muscle Mass
More muscle (I.e. Quads/thighs) → Greater muscle damage, → longer recovery
🛞 Particularly braking/decels, change of direction (COD)
🧠 Brain, Lungs and Legs
🔥 Match Intensity
Higher intensity → Longer recovery needed
🦵🏻 Muscle Mass
More muscle (I.e. Quads/thighs) → Greater muscle damage, → longer recovery
🛞 Particularly braking/decels, change of direction (COD)
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Factors Affecting Recovery in Football Players
🧠 Brain, Lungs and Legs
🔥 Match Intensity
Higher intensity → Longer recovery needed
🦵🏻 Muscle Mass
More muscle (I.e. Quads/thighs) → Greater muscle damage, → longer recovery
🛞 Particularly braking/decels, change of direction (COD)
🧠 Brain, Lungs and Legs
🔥 Match Intensity
Higher intensity → Longer recovery needed
🦵🏻 Muscle Mass
More muscle (I.e. Quads/thighs) → Greater muscle damage, → longer recovery
🛞 Particularly braking/decels, change of direction (COD)
🚔 ⚕️Policing, Health,and Community Safety
Policing: President of the National Black Police Association, Mr Andy George. Chief Inspector in the police service in Northern Ireland.
Policing: President of the National Black Police Association, Mr Andy George. Chief Inspector in the police service in Northern Ireland.
April 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
🚔 ⚕️Policing, Health,and Community Safety
Policing: President of the National Black Police Association, Mr Andy George. Chief Inspector in the police service in Northern Ireland.
Policing: President of the National Black Police Association, Mr Andy George. Chief Inspector in the police service in Northern Ireland.
Excellent day at UEL, hosted by Lawrence Davies, CEO of Equal Justice solicitors, a relentless advocate. Exciting times ahead.
April 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Excellent day at UEL, hosted by Lawrence Davies, CEO of Equal Justice solicitors, a relentless advocate. Exciting times ahead.
📌 Exercise Videos: Demonstrations with professional athletes for practical application via YouTube, see comments. Plus see coaching cues for the professional football athlete live. This part of ACL knee rehabilitation
Men's Swedish Professional League (Allsvenskan)
Men's Swedish Professional League (Allsvenskan)
April 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
📌 Exercise Videos: Demonstrations with professional athletes for practical application via YouTube, see comments. Plus see coaching cues for the professional football athlete live. This part of ACL knee rehabilitation
Men's Swedish Professional League (Allsvenskan)
Men's Swedish Professional League (Allsvenskan)
📌 Hamstring Strength Framework, 8 Stages+: Rehab and Performance.
1️⃣ Following on from my last post, here’s the full framework—an applied system structured to increase hamstring strength, speed, power, robustness, and durability.
👉🏼 Click on link ⤵️
www.linkedin.com/posts/asccli...
1️⃣ Following on from my last post, here’s the full framework—an applied system structured to increase hamstring strength, speed, power, robustness, and durability.
👉🏼 Click on link ⤵️
www.linkedin.com/posts/asccli...
April 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
📌 Hamstring Strength Framework, 8 Stages+: Rehab and Performance.
1️⃣ Following on from my last post, here’s the full framework—an applied system structured to increase hamstring strength, speed, power, robustness, and durability.
👉🏼 Click on link ⤵️
www.linkedin.com/posts/asccli...
1️⃣ Following on from my last post, here’s the full framework—an applied system structured to increase hamstring strength, speed, power, robustness, and durability.
👉🏼 Click on link ⤵️
www.linkedin.com/posts/asccli...
April 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
10. Isometric Training: Isometric training can offer specific benefits, such as:
Developing muscle-tendon unit specificity, which is relevant to the isometric condition of the hamstrings during the end swing phase of sprinting.
Third Hamstring - Groin / Adductors
Developing muscle-tendon unit specificity, which is relevant to the isometric condition of the hamstrings during the end swing phase of sprinting.
Third Hamstring - Groin / Adductors
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
10. Isometric Training: Isometric training can offer specific benefits, such as:
Developing muscle-tendon unit specificity, which is relevant to the isometric condition of the hamstrings during the end swing phase of sprinting.
Third Hamstring - Groin / Adductors
Developing muscle-tendon unit specificity, which is relevant to the isometric condition of the hamstrings during the end swing phase of sprinting.
Third Hamstring - Groin / Adductors
9. Eccentric Training: Eccentric training is a key component of hamstring injury rehabilitation. It helps to:
Develop high eccentric force, which is crucial during the sprinting cycle.
Increase fascicle length, which may protect against future injury.
Develop high eccentric force, which is crucial during the sprinting cycle.
Increase fascicle length, which may protect against future injury.
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
9. Eccentric Training: Eccentric training is a key component of hamstring injury rehabilitation. It helps to:
Develop high eccentric force, which is crucial during the sprinting cycle.
Increase fascicle length, which may protect against future injury.
Develop high eccentric force, which is crucial during the sprinting cycle.
Increase fascicle length, which may protect against future injury.
8. Importance of Movement Patterns: Restoring normal movement patterns through progressive running drills is essential. These drills help load the hamstring functionally, increasing velocity and muscle lengthening gradually.
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
8. Importance of Movement Patterns: Restoring normal movement patterns through progressive running drills is essential. These drills help load the hamstring functionally, increasing velocity and muscle lengthening gradually.
7. Targeted Exercise Prescription: Exercise prescription should target the injured muscle's specific functional roles. Biceps femoris (BF) is subject to the largest strain, semitendinosus (ST) to the greatest lengthening velocities, and semimembranosus (SM) acts predominantly as a force producer.
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
7. Targeted Exercise Prescription: Exercise prescription should target the injured muscle's specific functional roles. Biceps femoris (BF) is subject to the largest strain, semitendinosus (ST) to the greatest lengthening velocities, and semimembranosus (SM) acts predominantly as a force producer.
6. Shared Decision-Making: The coach and athlete should be involved in a shared decision-making process, considering the risks and benefits of management strategies. The goal is to maximize the athlete's availability for full training while minimizing the risk of re-injury.
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
6. Shared Decision-Making: The coach and athlete should be involved in a shared decision-making process, considering the risks and benefits of management strategies. The goal is to maximize the athlete's availability for full training while minimizing the risk of re-injury.
5. This includes aligning roles and responsibilities to optimize the rehabilitation process, with targeted strategies like nutrition and pain management based on the BAMIC classification.
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
5. This includes aligning roles and responsibilities to optimize the rehabilitation process, with targeted strategies like nutrition and pain management based on the BAMIC classification.
Detecting intra-tendon injuries is particularly important due to their impact on return to training and re-injury rates
4. Collaborative Approach: The British Athletics sports science and medicine team collaborate within an integrated health and performance model.
4. Collaborative Approach: The British Athletics sports science and medicine team collaborate within an integrated health and performance model.
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Detecting intra-tendon injuries is particularly important due to their impact on return to training and re-injury rates
4. Collaborative Approach: The British Athletics sports science and medicine team collaborate within an integrated health and performance model.
4. Collaborative Approach: The British Athletics sports science and medicine team collaborate within an integrated health and performance model.
BAMIC helps clinicians manage elite track and field athletes with hamstring injuries.
3. Importance of Accurate Diagnosis: Early and accurate structural diagnosis using clinical assessment, ultrasound, and MRI within 72 hours of injury is crucial. .
3. Importance of Accurate Diagnosis: Early and accurate structural diagnosis using clinical assessment, ultrasound, and MRI within 72 hours of injury is crucial. .
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
BAMIC helps clinicians manage elite track and field athletes with hamstring injuries.
3. Importance of Accurate Diagnosis: Early and accurate structural diagnosis using clinical assessment, ultrasound, and MRI within 72 hours of injury is crucial. .
3. Importance of Accurate Diagnosis: Early and accurate structural diagnosis using clinical assessment, ultrasound, and MRI within 72 hours of injury is crucial. .
2. British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification (BAMIC): The study emphasizes using the BAMIC system, which classifies hamstring injuries based on the anatomical site (myofascial, muscle-tendon junction, or in-tratendinous) and the extent of the injury (graded 0-4).
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
2. British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification (BAMIC): The study emphasizes using the BAMIC system, which classifies hamstring injuries based on the anatomical site (myofascial, muscle-tendon junction, or in-tratendinous) and the extent of the injury (graded 0-4).
Part 2: 🤼♀️Expanding the Wrestling Resource Collection
Papers, journals and resources that explore diverse aspects of wrestling science & training. 🤼♀️
All are downloadable on my website blog, click on the link below ⤵️ 🤼♀️🥉
www.lizziefitness.com/lizzie-fluke...
Papers, journals and resources that explore diverse aspects of wrestling science & training. 🤼♀️
All are downloadable on my website blog, click on the link below ⤵️ 🤼♀️🥉
www.lizziefitness.com/lizzie-fluke...
April 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Part 2: 🤼♀️Expanding the Wrestling Resource Collection
Papers, journals and resources that explore diverse aspects of wrestling science & training. 🤼♀️
All are downloadable on my website blog, click on the link below ⤵️ 🤼♀️🥉
www.lizziefitness.com/lizzie-fluke...
Papers, journals and resources that explore diverse aspects of wrestling science & training. 🤼♀️
All are downloadable on my website blog, click on the link below ⤵️ 🤼♀️🥉
www.lizziefitness.com/lizzie-fluke...