The final post reporting on the inaugural Orreco Science Summit will concentrate on the area of data science. The previous posts focused on the presentations delivered at Glenlo Abbey Hotel, Galway covering sports science and medicine and applied sports science aspects of...

This month, Orreco, the Irish company that specialise in providing biomarker and data analytics solutions for high performing sports organisations and athletes, hosted their inaugural Sports Science Summit.

Over the last couple of years, a start-up out of Ireland have been making waves in the field of biomarkers and analytics. In particular, the work that Orreco undertakes, has been used to provide athletes, including those that I have been responsible for, with physiological...

After kindly being asked to contribute to the two-year anniversary celebrations for Crossfit Nickel City’s incarnation, I was delighted to be warmly welcomed by a group of enthusiastic amateur athletes. The topic of the day was recovery and I presented a short introduction...

In my previous blog, I had started to review Matthew Syed's latest book, "Black Box Thinking". I had looked at the concepts of "Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset" cultures and "Cognitive Dissonance", considering how these behaviours affect our ability to learn from error...

Occasionally, along comes a book that you struggle to put down once you’ve picked it up; dominates all book recommendations to your friends for months on end; you end up buying for people that you think would benefit from reading it; and it fundamentally changes your outlook...

In September 2015, CONQA Sport, the South African sports event management and consulting group, launched their sports performance symposium. The event brought together 320 talented, progressive and like minded sports practitioners from around the world, to unearth challenges...

After reading more about the performance culture that has been developed over recent years by the management, coaching and playing personnel at the New Zealand All Blacks, I wanted to learn more about the environment that has been created at cycling’s Team Sky.

When I first decided to start writing my blog, the idea was never to do anything other than give myself a platform that would keep a record of my learning and personal development. By making it public, my thought was that it would help keep me accountable to ‘someone’ other...

In my working life, I am extremely fortunate to be introduced to & work with some fascinating people & organisations around the world. As such, I have built an incredible network of field leaders, expert practitioners & illustrious academics. It’s not unusual for these...