Tim Gabbett, PhD
Dr Tim Gabbett has 20 years experience working as an applied sport scientist with athletes and coaches from a wide range of sports. He holds a PhD in Human Physiology (2000) and has completed a second PhD in the Applied Science of Professional Football (2011) , with special reference to physical demands, injury prevention, and skill acquisition. Tim has worked with elite international athletes over several Commonwealth Games (2002 and 2006) and Olympic Games (2000, 2004, and 2008) cycles. He continues to work as a sport science and coaching consultant for several high performance teams around the world. Tim has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and has presented at over 200 national and international conferences. He is committed to performing world-leading research that can be applied in the ‘real world’ to benefit high performance coaches and athletes.
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Dr. Tim Gabbett, an authority in the world of sport science, will join co-hosts Jared Maynard and John Flagg for a discussion of a very hot topic: training workloads and their relationship to athletic injuries. The discussion will focus on a review of the existing literature and touch on:
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Where the concept of acute:chronic workload ratio came from, and what need it was meant to address for clinicians and coaches?
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Whether the ACWR seems to be a viable and useful injury prediction tool?
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Whether athletes are being held back in an effort to avoid high workload ratios?
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What weaknesses might exist in the workload research at the moment?
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What do people misinterpret or misconstrue about ACWR?
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What could be done to make this concept more useful? What future research is in the works now?