I arrived back in the UK on Monday night with a busy week in store. Lunch meetings with Andy & Rich, the co-founders of Headspace, as well as my former British Athletics colleague & good friend, John Rogers, were lined up. Visits to both Manchester United & Manchester...

It’s been an incredible week in California, visiting cutting edge performance centres, listening to & learning from some great minds, each asking their own questions in the performance science parameters of their fields. I didn’t stand on ceremony & as I stepped off the plane...

Data. Information. It’s the new black, the game-changer, the must have for every organisation in the sports industry. It’s everywhere. It’s available for the front office to optimise the player recruitment process, the fan to enhance participation in the game experience...

For many years, I have wanted to visit Cuba. It has been a bucket list destination, a dream & a curiosity underpinned by a colourful history of opulence, turmoil & struggle dealt out in generous measures. As other destinations on my “Top 5” list have been ticked off...

Following a recommendation (thanks Andrew Small), a few weeks ago, I registered for the CES Unveiled New York, which is hosted in the Big Apple a couple of months before the International CES event takes place in Las Vegas. For the uninitiated, the International CES is...

Over the last few days, I have been on a summer tour of research, personal development, fact-finding & introduction. It’s been an incredibly interesting & entertaining experience, meeting many new people & catching up with old friends. The tour was topped & tailed by stays...

It's a conversation topic that often rears its head at this time of year..."Would Team X from 20 whatever years ago have beaten Team Y from today?", "Would the best player from yesteryear be able to hold their own in the current sporting climate?" or have the athletes of today...

Times are changing. The world of sports science, sports physiotherapy, sports medicine & sports performance is about to get a big shake up…one that I’ve been predicting for a couple of years now. Since 2007, I have been travelling regularly to the USA to spend time with the...

So it appears that the Team GB & Team Sky cyclists are crushing the majority of opponents that dare challenge them on the road or on the track this year. Unparalleled success in this year's Tour de France saw targets exceeded ahead of schedule, whilst at the London 2012...

In a study appearing in the July issue of Sleep, Cheri Mah, a researcher in the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic & Research Laboratory, has shown that basketball players at the elite college level were able to improve their on-the-court performance by increasing their amount of to