Notes from Fergus Connolly: Performance Optimisation in Elite Team Sport – The Art of Science | Underground Athletics. Dr Fergus Connolly is a Sports Performance Consultant who has worked in elite team sports from Premiership football and International Rugby, to the NFL and NBA. He has a PhD in Computer Optimisation and specialises in the development of unique effective monitoring, training and regeneration approaches to improving results in team sport. He gave this lecture at the UK Sport and Exercise Medicine Conference (now the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine ) in 2011. This was one of the best conferences I have attended with a huge amount of high quality speakers on a wide range of topics.
My notes from Fergus’ lecture are below in bullet point format. I’m only interested in winning. Everyone is looking for a magic hammer when all they need to do is clean and tidy the tools that are already in their toolbox. Henry Ford said “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got”.