A joint podcast with Dr Laurent Bannock, Institute of Performance Nutrition (www.theiopn.com), 'We do Science Podcast'. Both Laurent and I have an interest in the translation of research into practice and how practitioners, coaches and athletes can first of all access appropriate information but also how the latest research influences practice. We discuss how research findings can be difficult to interpret and therefore are easily misinterpreted and the key reasons why findings might be misinterpreted. Over the last 10 years there has been a very significant increase in research publications across all of the sport sciences and even specialist researchers find difficult to keep up thus it is even more difficult for practitioners, coaches and athletes to keep up. It is also difficult for these non-researchers to put any single research finding into context against all of the preceding research. It can also be said that practitioners and coaches have a key role in highlighting potential areas of research, ensuring that the research that is conducted attempts to answer relevant practical issues.
We suggest that accreditation of practitioners combined with a learning mindset are critical to ensure that practitioners provide evidence based practice. Researchers have a key role in communicating their findings in a way that is accessible and practical to practitioners.
We refer to two recent publications both of which outline some of the key issues.
From Paper to Podium: Quantifying the Translational Potential of Performance Nutrition Research
Close GL, Kasper AM, Morton JP
Sports Med, 2019
The Translation of Sport Science Research to the Field: A Current Opinion and Overview on the Perceptions of Practitioners, Researchers and Coaches
Fullagar HHK, McCall A, Impellizzeri FM, Favero T, Coutts AJ
Sports Med, 2019
Episode 19 - Interview with Prof Rob Lamberts - Reliability of Recovery Heart Rate Variability
Episode 18 - Atrial fibrillation in cyclists, Interview with Prof Gerry McCann
Episode 17- Interview with Prof Ron Maughan, everything nutrition
Episode 16 - Cycling into old age- Royal Academy of Octogenarian Cyclists
Episode 15- Incorporation of 30s sprints into your endurance ride, Dr Nicki Winfield Almquist interview
Episode 14: The effect of aerodynamic time-trial position on gross efficiency
Episode 13 Dr Mia Burleigh - Interactions between diet(nitrates) and oral bacteria in the regulation of human health
Episode 12 - Interview with David Smith MBE
Episode 11 - Technical Innovation 3, Another first for SRM with the X-power Pedal
Episode 10 -Technical Innovation 2 - Aero wheels re-invented
Episode 9 - Technical Innovation 1 - Shokbox bike box
Episode 8 - Investigating the best design of Interval training?
Episode 7 - Interview with Dr Shawn Bearden, Science of Ultra
Episode 6 - A successful riders perspective of Cycling Science
Episode 4 - Crash Bang
Episode 3 - Critical Power
Episode 2 - Cycling and Pollution
Episode 1- Energy Deficit
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