Tom Dos'Santos

Biomechanical Determinants of Performance and Injury Risk During Change of Direction – An Optimal Technical Model to Mediate the Conflict

Balancing the Speed-Safety Tightrope in Multidirectional Sport: Mediating the Performance-Injury Conflict During Change of Direction Every time an athlete plants their foot to change direction, they enter a high-stakes negotiation…

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18 min

Biomechanical and Neuromuscular Demands of Change of Direction: Implications for Athlete Physical Preparation

Change of Direction (COD) actions are complex, multiplanar skills that frequently define decisive moments in competitive sport. Whether facilitating a match-winning evasion or occurring during an injury-inciting event, these manoeuvres…

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22 min

Developing Agile Athletes: Applying the Agility Development Framework in Practice

Agility actions—including side-steps, shuffle steps, crossover cuts, split-steps, spins, sharp turns, and decelerations—are critical manoeuvres in multidirectional sports, frequently determining match-winning moments (Dos’Santos et al., 2022; Martínez Hernández et al.,…

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16 min

Plyometric Training: Importance for Multi-directional Speed Development and Injury Prevention

Overview Plyometric is a combination of Greek words that literally means to increase measurement (plio = more; metric = measure), and plyometric training (PT) are methods which involves the stretch…

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14 min

Testing: What is it Good For?

Overview Fitness testing (i.e., testing the components of fitness related to sports performance and injury) helps drive physical preparation strategies to improve performance and mitigate injury risk (McGuigan, 2017). Fitness…

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14 min

Athletic Development

Developing Neuromuscular Power for Athletic Performance: Part 2 – Training Strategies andProgramming Solutions

In our previous blog, we have highlighted key mechanical terminology related to power development, discussed the underpinning physiology and biomechanical theories applicable to power training, and identified possible training modalities…

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10 min

Athletic Development

Developing Neuromuscular Power for Athletic Performance: Part 1 – Physiological and Biomechanical Theories

Overview Developing an athlete’s ability to generate power is the primary goal of most strength and conditioning (S&C) programmes and is usually the final phase and foci during a periodised…

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12 min

Athletic Development

Programming Resistance Training to Improve Sports Performance and Injury Resilience

In our previous blog (part 1), we discussed the importance of resistance training and force production, and the key principles of training. In this blog (part 2) we will discuss…

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11 min

Athletic Development

The Importance and Principles of Resistance Training

You have never heard a practitioner or coach state the following: “That player would be better if they were just a bit weaker.” But how do we develop our athlete’s…

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8 min

Optimising Cutting Attacking Agility Actions: Technique Guidelines

Attacking agility actions, such as side-steps, shuffle steps, crossover cutting, split-steps, spins, sharp turns, and decelerations are important manoeuvres in invasion team-sports, often linked with decisive, match winning moments. Generally,…

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Biomechanical Determinants of Performance and Injury Risk During Change of Direction – An Optimal Technical Model to Mediate the Conflict

Biomechanical and Neuromuscular Demands of Change of Direction: Implications for Athlete Physical Preparation

Developing Agile Athletes: Applying the Agility Development Framework in Practice

Plyometric Training: Importance for Multi-directional Speed Development and Injury Prevention

Testing: What is it Good For?

Developing Neuromuscular Power for Athletic Performance: Part 2 – Training Strategies andProgramming Solutions

Developing Neuromuscular Power for Athletic Performance: Part 1 – Physiological and Biomechanical Theories

Programming Resistance Training to Improve Sports Performance and Injury Resilience

The Importance and Principles of Resistance Training

Optimising Cutting Attacking Agility Actions: Technique Guidelines

Biomechanical Determinants of Performance and Injury Risk During Change of Direction – An Optimal Technical Model to Mediate the Conflict

Biomechanical and Neuromuscular Demands of Change of Direction: Implications for Athlete Physical Preparation

Developing Agile Athletes: Applying the Agility Development Framework in Practice

T-Junction Injuries of the Biceps Femoris: Anatomy, Diagnosis, and Rehabilitation Evolution

The Importance, Challenges, and Developments of Biomechanical Load Measurements in Multidirectional Sports