Ben Matthews

Touring the United Kingdom checking out the world of Sport Science practice in other parts of the world!

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Incredible tour with amazing leaders, students and experiences ! Big thank you to @MeganTeychenne @cs_shaw & @RyanP1709 for your effort putting this experience together! Catch you all back in Melbourne in the new year! #HSE360

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Wow! @Wimbledon what a place full of culture, tradition and amazing sporting facilities for athletes and fans.
3 things to remember when thinking about Wimbledon
-tennis
-grass
-white
#HSE360

[Samuel Padarcic @SamuelPtheAEP]

Interesting talk with Ian Jeffreys this morning and great tour of the amazing facilities that @UniSouthWales has to offer. It was nice to establish a greater holistic understanding of coaching and S&C developed throughout Ian’s presentation. #HSE360UK

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Incredible facilities at @UniSouthWales . Emphasis on making the relationship between education, theory and practical knowledge greater!

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Great day and one that I have been looking forward to for a while. Was great meeting @UniWorcAnalysis and @WorcsWarriors and learning heaps!

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Exciting that an academy role can expand from a a single role in full time to now a team of 4 full timers and 6 assistants. This is expected to grow for a top tier team.
Counteracted by the amount of applicants for jobs makes it extremely tough to find a full time role

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Uni of Worcester Morning Session
Mike Bateman : Performance Analysis
Effective delivery of Key Values, action variables and effective operational definitions contributing to the learning of the actual game performance of the player.

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Stats telling us what happened.
Video telling us why.
Linking the two to improve the learning process of each and every player in review.

[Meribel Brayshaw @Meribel_IPSSUK]

Another fascinating day at @unibirmingham learning all things Doping in sport and motivational psychology #HSE360UK @JoanDuda @mdsportex

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Empowering climate ➡️ Highly associated with Autonomous motivation ➡️Less likely to drop out.
Does the way we coach kids at the early adolescence effect the pathways of kids into higher level sport?
Should there be an intervention in Grassroots sport?

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Uni of Birmingham Afternoon Session:
Prof Joan Duda - "Motivational Psychologist"
- Physical activity motivation in Children: The benefits of empowering kids to be physically active are easier to translate into an older age.

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Task-involving motivation is crucial to succeeding at elite level sport. From my experience at Cats, this is evident in all their practices in their review and training processes

[Megan Teychenne @MeganTeychenne]

@JoanDuda talks to our #HSE360UK team at @unibirmingham about the good, the bad & the ugly of motivation in sport using self-determination theory: “Quality motivation & wellbeing promoted when environment is autonomy & socially supportive, & controlling behaviours minimised”

[Samuel Padarcic @SamuelPtheAEP]

Thank you @MeganTeychenne for your talk about mental health & PA.

KEY TAKE AWAYS:
- Mod to Vig PA is effective for managing depression
- Domain of PA is vital
- Screen based sedentary behaviour is linked to poorer mental health
- Type of PA?
- Limited evidence
#IPAN #HSE360UK

[Samuel Padarcic @SamuelPtheAEP]

Intriguing talk about exercise metabolism conducted by @cs_shaw today.

My take aways included:
- Autophagy becomes active from exercise
- It may be important for chronic adaptation
- There are fibre type dependant responses after acute exercise
#IPAN #HSE360UK @Deakin_ExSc

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Thanks @mdsportex for your insightful discussion!
I think doping in sport has a long way to go in ways that we can determine the management of athletes and their performance enhancement strategies!

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Uni of Birmingham Day 2 Morning Session
Dr Ian Broadley @mdsportex : Doping Issues in Coaching.
- If athletes dont see the detrimental effects on doping, they are more inclined to use it

[Ben Matthews @BenIPSSuk]

Interesting that the 3 strikes policy in elite sport surrounding recreational drugs is relevant to the law of that country, but yet still allows the athlete to use that drug on 2 seperate occasions before any intervention is made by the club or support services of the athlete

[Samuel Padarcic @SamuelPtheAEP]

KEY TAKE AWAY
If doping was to be permitted in competitive sport this would explicitly pressure drug use for athletes who wish to compete clean, which is detrimental to the spirt of the sport.

More funding & commitment to current anti-doping protocols is recommended #HSE360UK