| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football 09:51 - Sep 22 with 2912 views | Northernr |
Most of it complete bolox, shock.
Interesting article.
https://www.theguardian.com/fo |  | | |  |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 09:40 - Sep 23 with 547 views | robith |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 16:52 - Sep 22 by NewcastleHoop |
Research is all well and good, but people come to faulty conclusions all the time, and it's more often because the people collecting the data for the experts have no idea what they're doing, than because the experts are bad experts. Be ten times as sceptical of data as you are of science. |
That's why the Scientific Method ends with publishing findings so they can be peer reviewed |  | | |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 11:40 - Sep 23 with 377 views | Beckenhamhoop |
I did raise the issue of sleep monitoring by the club on here some months ago. In my unscientific, humble opinion sleep is one of the main factors in physical performance. I’m basing this entirely on the fact that after a bad nights sleep I am very much sub optimal and slightly grumpy After two nights bad sleep I can barely function and after three nights bad sleep (thankfully a very rare occurrence) I am like an extra from Dawn of the Dead.
I can’t help but think that to a degree, this army of coaches stood at the sidelines lecturing an oncoming substitute with an iPad about what he should be doing is also, largely, bollox and simply an exercise in justifying their own employment. [Post edited 23 Sep 11:45]
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| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 12:04 - Sep 23 with 330 views | kernowhoop |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 14:45 - Sep 22 by KensalT |
That was an interesting read.
Who knew that footballers are gullible!?
Made me all nostalgic for nasal strips. Whatever happened to them 
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I wear one from time to time - at night - but never felt the need to do so when I played football.  | | | |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 12:43 - Sep 23 with 270 views | Northernr |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 11:40 - Sep 23 by Beckenhamhoop |
I did raise the issue of sleep monitoring by the club on here some months ago. In my unscientific, humble opinion sleep is one of the main factors in physical performance. I’m basing this entirely on the fact that after a bad nights sleep I am very much sub optimal and slightly grumpy After two nights bad sleep I can barely function and after three nights bad sleep (thankfully a very rare occurrence) I am like an extra from Dawn of the Dead.
I can’t help but think that to a degree, this army of coaches stood at the sidelines lecturing an oncoming substitute with an iPad about what he should be doing is also, largely, bollox and simply an exercise in justifying their own employment. [Post edited 23 Sep 11:45]
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Footballers and sleep have a tricky relationship anyway (and not just because of all the shagging). Travel, late night games, stress, caffein tablets, Red Bull/Monster etc etc. A quarter of professionals don't even manage six hours a night...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a | | | |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 13:34 - Sep 23 with 191 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 12:43 - Sep 23 by Northernr |
Footballers and sleep have a tricky relationship anyway (and not just because of all the shagging). Travel, late night games, stress, caffein tablets, Red Bull/Monster etc etc. A quarter of professionals don't even manage six hours a night...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a |
Thatcher used to brag she only needed four hours sleep a night, QED |  | | |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 13:45 - Sep 23 with 171 views | Spaceman_P |
Sometimes it feels they get too anal about stuff.
Look here is ball... ball goes in net.
I miss when they actually played harder now everyone is a hamstring away from retirement |  | | |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 13:53 - Sep 23 with 144 views | KensalT |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 12:43 - Sep 23 by Northernr |
Footballers and sleep have a tricky relationship anyway (and not just because of all the shagging). Travel, late night games, stress, caffein tablets, Red Bull/Monster etc etc. A quarter of professionals don't even manage six hours a night...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a |
That's an interesting find.
However, I read it a bit differently than you - and I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
It does say that 135 (22.5%) of male footballers in the survey experience less than six hours sleep.
But when you drill down it's mostly the retired footballers who are experiencing short sleep.
Of the 135 men experiencing short sleep, 14 are current players and 121 are retired.
Overall the average sleep for current male players is 7.93 hours. Which is a lot more than I get!
I've taken those numbers from this table:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a
And if I'm reading it wrong then please tell me. |  | | |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 13:56 - Sep 23 with 132 views | KensalT |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 12:04 - Sep 23 by kernowhoop |
I wear one from time to time - at night - but never felt the need to do so when I played football. |
You'd need a roll of gaffer tape to stop my snoring! | | | |
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| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 13:56 - Sep 23 with 131 views | Northernr |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 13:34 - Sep 23 by nick_hammersmith |
Thatcher used to brag she only needed four hours sleep a night, QED |
Probably explains a lot. | | | |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 14:02 - Sep 23 with 114 views | R_from_afar |
| Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football on 12:04 - Sep 23 by kernowhoop |
I wear one from time to time - at night - but never felt the need to do so when I played football. |
The Visma/Lease a bike pro cycling team, which includes Jonas Vingegaard, use nasal strips:
https://histrips.com/blogs/new
I'm not sure whether it counts as pseudoscience, an eccentricity or good oral health - bear with me on this  - but when I used to play 8 a side football, I would floss just before kick-off.
The thing was, I used to eat a cereal bar for energy on the way to the match and always felt I wouldn't be able to concentrate on the game fully if I was trying to extract chewed up oats from between my teeth while attempting to close down a pacy winger  . |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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