MAD Physiotherapy Blog

Lining up your stressors 

I get asked by younger clinicians and coaches very often about programming, particularly structuring of a weekly or similar length microcycle. For the uninitiated a microcycle is a cluster of training sessions or intervention units that are placed into a period...

You need to get your stress in order: Part 2 

Structuring any intervention requires balancing a number of competing interests. We spoke in our last article about the idea that periodisation is essentially lining up our stress units to match the needs of the individual/s and the activity that that they are taking...

You need to get your stress in order.

Periodisation can often appear complicated. For the uninitiated periodisation is the organization of training or an intervention to achieve a particular performance or characteristic within a given time frame. This makes sense for example when we plan out a return to...

That is impossible to measure.

Two weeks ago we spoke about objectivity and how using objective measurements is often helpful in establishing a clear and unbiased picture of what is occurring. But what happens when the objective data doesn't provide the full picture?  A recent article by Lluc...

The false economy of health, performance and physical training. 

‘You must look at the fundamentals’. You hear this phrase often in finance circles. And for the most part it has been an accurate principle to live by. But as we have shifted into the information age, the age of fake news, the age of hype and bs, we have seen things...

Objectivity

We have spoken a number of times about our perception of reality and how this changes the way we view the world and act in accordance with this world view. In a previous discussion the idea of predictive coding was highlighted. That is the idea that our prediction of...

Outsmarting your brain. 

In our last article we spoke about the impact that mental fatigue has on physical performance and particularly on endurance capability. And with general life and performance stress high in elite and semi elite sport environments the reality is that mental fatigue is...

Your brain is tired.

Following on from last weeks article. I started to look at some of the discussions that may shed light on why periods of high stress (academic or otherwise) can lead to increased injury risk. Now there are a number of physiological mechanisms that change when we are...

When you can’t outrun the noise.

In the last few months we have had a number of discussions surrounding life stress and the impact that this has had on the development of injury. Now for many of you that worked through the periods of lockdown I am sure that you noticed a similar pattern. To me it was...