Pieter Van den Berghe
@pieterveedeebee.bsky.social
Digital and social media Editor | driving engagement in sports medicine & exercise Science Journals (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Journal of Sports Sciences)
🆕 Factors influencing the invitation for national squad selection in youth basketball: The role of relative age, maturity, and birthplace www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🆕 Does match phase affect high-speed running and sprinting peak period performance and recovery kinetics in professional male football players? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🆕 The give and take of social support in professional athlete career pathways www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🆕 The effects of isothermic heat acclimation on simple and complex cognitive performance in the heat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🆕 See how they run: Characteristics of 114,324 runs from 227 runners with and without a history of knee surgery www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🆕 The impact of cognitive load on lower limb biomechanics during the take-off phase before service in tennis players of different levels www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🆕 Does technology assist physical activity engagement in adolescent girls and young women? Repeated cross-sectional analysis
🆕 The role of psychological and environmental characteristics in talent development in sport: A mixed methods study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🆕 “I literally played seven minutes and then got scouted for England”: Player experiences of talent identification and development in women’s blind football www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🆕 What are the demands of volleyball match-play? A systematic review of the external and internal loads encountered according to playing position, number of sets, and player sex. Including Open Data and Open Materials. Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10....
🆕 Expanding our understanding of talent development environments in English female youth football: Player, parent and coach perspectives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Journal of Sports Sciences has just published its first Registered Report since introducing this article type in 2021! Here, the introduction & methods were peer-reviewed before receiving the data. We look forward to receiving more of these articles. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Journal of Sports Sciences publishes research on various aspects of the sports and exercise sciences. So which research has been resonating strongly with the sports science community in the past year? The articles 👇 have been downloaded >100,000 times in 2025 alone!
Twenty-Four-Hour Low Energy Availability Induced by Diet or Exercise Exhibits Divergent Influences on Sleep and Recovery Indices among Female and Male Cyclists journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab...
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American College of Sports Medicine Expert Consensus Statement: Blood Doping in Sport journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...
A massive team effort to produce this joint ESSA & ACSM expert statement on “Physical Activity and Exercise Intensity Terminology”, which has been published in both JSaMS www.jsams.org/article/S144... & journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu... Thread 🧵👇🏽
New in MSSE: Adding blood flow restriction (BFR) during rest intervals of HIIT significantly boosts endurance performance — bigger gains in max power, time to exhaustion & faster 20 km trial times — without extra sprint or strength benefits. journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...
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Study by Department of Human Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan on Changes in Knowledge and Compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations Among Youth Baseball Coaches: A Cross-Sectional Comparison at Two Time Points www.dovepress.com/changes-in-k...
Changes in Knowledge and Compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations A | OAJSM
Examining how such changes have influence coaches’ knowledge and compliance with Pitch Count Recommendations Among Youth Baseball Coaches
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'Coach–athlete interaction in Muay Thai: A microethnographic analysis of skill learning in a real-world combat sport' - open access in Journal of Sports Sciences: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Coach–athlete interaction in Muay Thai: A microethnographic analysis of skill learning in a real-world combat sport
Coach–athlete interaction is a central component of skill learning in sports. When done well, interventions by a coach can shape an athlete’s perceptual, motivational, and physical capacities and d...
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For those skeptical short sprints could be so effective, many studies. See: ~12-16 min of intensity > 45 min of long slow distance: “High-intensity aerobic interval training resulted in significantly increased VO2max compared with long slow distance… (P < 0.01).” journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fu...
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
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david ginola, former professional soccer player, attending a motion capture session for fifa soccer 97 (1996) archive.org/details/play...
New US research: Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation after Sub-Maximal Exercise in Individuals with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab... #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #LongCovid #PostExertionalMalaise
Ai niin, julkaisu-uutisia! Mun eka ykklskirjoittama huippulehdessä julkaistu juttu on nähnyt päivänvalon 🥳🎉 💡Metabolisen terveyden näkökulmasta kannattaa liikkua läpi aikuisuuden ja treenata lihaskuntoa 💪 Tulossa avoimeksi, sitten tarkemmin löydöksistä. Thx @eerohaapala.bsky.social 💎
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After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
New study exploring a potential strategy for increasing affective responses during exercise while emphasizing the need to rigorously test related auxiliary assumptions and determine an SESOI for confirmatory research: doi.org/10.1080/0264...
Making the exercise experience more pleasurable: Exploring the psychological effect of allowing intensity adjustments during exercise
Feeling good during exercise is a key predictor of whether people stay active. One factor thought to influence this is whether exercisers perceive control over their training intensity. A meta-anal...
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