Sports Science

How The Craft Of Air Guitar Evolved Into A Sport

Advertised as the “greatest thing you’ve never seen,” the 2019 U.S. Air Guitar Championships will take place this summer. Competitors from around the country will don elaborate costumes, construct fantastical personas and perform comedic pantomimes of fam ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2019 - 9:12am

Mind-Muscle Connection: Thinking About Weights Is As Important As Lifting Them?

The 'mind-muscle connection'. Ancient lore for bodybuilders, latest buzz for Instragram fitness followers, or more for aesthetes than athletes? A new analysis in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living suggests that to lift heavier, or longer, it ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2019 - 9:44am

The Secret To Great Volleyball Is Sneaky Float Serves, Finds Aerodynamic Analysis

Wind tunnel experiments to determine the role of asymmetry caused by the orientation of a volleyball on its aerodynamic characteristics found that it would be easy to make a volleyball more predictable; with a hexagonal or dimpled pattern instead of six pa ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2019 - 9:30am

An Argument For Exercising Before Breakfast

Exercise is recommended for people who are overweight or obese as a way to reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. But people don’t always have time to exercise as much as they would like, so finding ways to increase th ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 6 2019 - 5:00am

Don't Be Intimidated By Lunks Or Master Athletes, Exercise Helps All Equally

Any time is a good time to start exercising but a great time to start exercising is today. Share this article on Facebook first, though.  Don't be intimidated by those people who hiss about Crossfit or their Peloton, a new study shows you have the sam ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2019 - 11:03am

Baseball Pitchers, Can You Out-throw A Chimp?

If you can scorch a baseball over the mound, you can thank extinct ancestors. That's not to say that, despite what an evolutionary psychologist might contend, our ability to throw fast and accurately evolved so our ancestors could play ball better an ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2020 - 11:26am

Baseball Blasphemy? Pitching Is Only 25 Percent Of Team Success

Cornelius McGillicuddy, Sr., better known as Connie Mack, once said that pitching is 75 percent of baseball.  He was speaking from experience, not data, and looks can be deceiving, as people who think a curve ball move two feet can attest, but science is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 28 2020 - 11:44am

Modern Snack Culture After Games Could Be Undermining The Benefits Of Sports For Kids

On most comedy television shows with episodes dealing with kids and sports, there is likely to be a joke about snack culture; it has to be organic, free-range juice boxes, etc. The jokes are there because for the script writers, snack culture wasn't a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 2 2020 - 11:38am

Improve Your NCAA Basketball March Madness Picks By Doing This

March is the time of year when even people who aren't college basketball fans get involved- because of March Madness pools, online or in the office.  Most, even experts will fail, because they do one thing wrong- they start in the beginning, which thi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 4 2020 - 6:01pm

V5: How To Hit A 90 MPH Baseball, The Neuroscience Way

If you are not an experienced baseball player, a ball coming at you 40 or 50 miles per hour is fast. You are almost certain to swing too late and then, when you realize that is fast, you will swing too early. You are almost as certain to miss. So how can ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2020 - 1:42pm