Wouter Timmerman

PhD candidate @EdithCowanUni on athlete monitoring and coach decision-making | Tri & cycling coach

[Sam Impey PhD @SamImpey_]

@timmermanwouter delivering a fascinating talk on the decision making around training modifications - highlighting the value of the qualitative data!

[Sports Tech Research Network (STRN) @STRN_SportsTech]

FULL PROGRAM of the Sports Tech Research & Innovation Summit 2024 is now live! 🙌

🔥 We couldn't be more excited about all these speakers and organizations coming together!

🫵 Which panel or speaker are you most looking forward to seeing?

🎟️ Tickets at https://t.co/FV4RGRiqeE

[Sports Tech Research Network (STRN) @STRN_SportsTech]

🎤👤 WHO? @IneVanCaekenber, Ben Smith, @timmermanwouter, and @PeterDuking

💬💥 WHAT? A Co-creation session about kicking up the end-user's voice in sports innovation and implementation processes

📆📍 WHEN? Friday 20 September 2:45 PM (STRN Summit day 2)

#STRNSummit2024

[Alana Leabeater @alana_leabeater]

PSA: the current minimum Australian RTP stipend is $11,771 below the national minimum wage, with no superannuation entitlement and no ability to pay off (rapidly indexed) HECS loans.

If you care about PhD students in Aus, please sign the petition: https://t.co/R05rzykoJ6

[Kristof De Mey @krdemey]

"Athlete monitoring perspectives of sports coaches and support staff: A scoping review" https://t.co/YxPvvdvAao More about this and related topics during the upcoming @STRN_SportsTech Summit in September!

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

@DrSianAllen @YLMSportScience, this content might potentially be suitable for an infographic. If it would be deemed suitable, I'm definitely keen to assist.

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

@DrSianAllen Thanks for this post @DrSianAllen, it's great to see the engagement with this topic!

[Sian Allen @DrSianAllen]

The more things we monitor, the more value we get... right?

Conclusions from this review of how Sport Scientists & Coaches perceive athlete monitoring:

"While athlete monitoring has generally been seen as valuable, coaches and support staff tended to expect the effectiveness to be higher"

Proposed reasons for this gap:

🔹 A lack of time, expertise, and resources
🔹 Having to obtain athlete buy-in, adherence and compliance
🔹 Ensuring valid and reliable data collection and accurate interpretation
🔹 Over-hyped marketing claims of athlete monitoring technologies
🔹 Over-simplification of the relationships between monitoring variables and sports performance / injury

[Gil Pla @gildevic]

From my experience, this scoping review is significant to support the importance of perceiving players as human-individuals (not machines) "athlete monitoring extends beyond quantitative information and encompasses non-quantified subjective information" https://t.co/0uV45kScon

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

@Sage_Publishing

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

Excited to share our paper: "Athlete Monitoring Perspectives of Sports Coaches and Support Staff: A Scoping Review"

✅🔓https://t.co/UMwvbSIdd7

@AbbissC @NathanGLawler @stanley_mandy @a_araynor @MHS_ECU @EdithCowanUni @MurdochUni

#research #sports #coach #athlete #monitor

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

➡ Central role of coaches and support staff: Amidst the rise of AI coaches and support staff will continue to have a central role within collecting, analysing and interpreting athlete monitoring data and information

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

@stanley_mandy Thanks Mandy! Looking forward to celebrate some more soon

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

@ahbossi @EdinburghNapier That's amazing news! You deserve this, congratulations

[Samuele Marcora @SamueleMarcora]

We have two PhD positions available at the University of Bologna (Italy) starting the 1st of November 2023. One is "The use of wireless dynamometers to support resistance training and strength assessment in different populations" in collaboration with Kinvent,

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

@andykirkland71 I’m not advocating to just mindlessly collecting everything and anything but to challenge the idea that data should be immediately applicable.

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

@andykirkland71 It depends, but not all data needs to be applicable immediately. Some data is only useful over time and for other data our processing methods or understanding is not good enough (yet?). But having that longitudinal data will be valuable whenever our understanding gets there

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

@bmgsport 🎉🎉🎉

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

Thanks to my supervisors @a_araynor @stanley_mandy @AbbissC @NathanGLawler for their expertise and support and @EdithCowanUni @MHS_ECU

Also a massive thanks to the world-class coaches who generously gave me their time and shared their perspectives

[Wouter Timmerman @timmermanwouter]

Already a week ago since I presented part of my PhD research on world-class endurance sports coaching at @E_C_S_S Paris and almost a month at @CRiC_SCR Liverpool

Great to catch up with friends and meet new people

If you’re interested in my research feel free to reach out