Today and Tuesday saw the Academy football players at Bolton Wanderers come to the Athlete Development Centre for isokinetics testing. This basically looks at muscle output for their quadriceps and hamstrings at different speeds, as well as the balance between these important muscle groups, their fatigue rate and highlighting any bilateral imbalances. This allows the medical and conditioning staff to address specific player needs and personalise their training programmes to help prevent injury and assist the players development at this important time in their career.
About Us
- Bolton Sports Staff
- University of Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom
- We are lecturers and practicing professionals in Sports Science and Rehabilitation. Our undergraduate BSc/BA (Hons) Sports programmes are dynamic vocational degrees delivered with the physically active in mind, whether that is within the local community, the recreational or professional athlete. Our experience and expertise in professional sport and private industry allows the sports student to gain first hand and current knowledge in the field of sports medicine, exercise and training. We maintain strong links in industry, which provides our students opportunities for excellent work experience placements. Community events also allow students to voluntarily offer their skills to assist the competitor, which further strengthens the role and credibility that our sports students play within the health and exercise medicine spectrum. Our in-house Sports & Spinal Injuries Clinic and Athlete Development Centre also provide our means of actual practice and teaching where we welcome anyone wishing to have their injury managed, or fitness tested, advised and monitored to the highest standards using recent and researched methods to access our facility in Bolton One.
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Bury FC pre-season testing in the Athlete Development Centre
Bury FC's head sports physio Tom Walsh brought the first team squad in for their pre-season fitness testing session this morning. This included isokinetics, sprint times, body composition and VO2max tests. A big thanks to Dave Morris, year 3 sport science student for directing the VO2 tests!
Monday, 1 July 2013
Cryotherapy and Warrington Wolves come to the University of Bolton!
The sports research team have been progressing their cryotherapy research with Warrington Wolves Rugby League Club, with the cryo unit coming to Bolton One for everyone to see! Paste the link below to see the
full article on the University of Bolton's website.
With temperatures as low as -130 degrees celcius, it was well worth getting Adam from the research team
and a Northwest Tonight reporter thrown in to feel the effects!
Friday, 28 June 2013
Bolton Wanderers FC pre-season testing in the ADC
Bolton Wanderers FC first team squad came in the Athlete Development Centre for over the last 2 days for Isokinetics, Jump Power and VO2max testing. Good to see our students getting some hands-on with professional athletes.
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Oldham Athletic FC pre-season testing in the ADC
Over the next 2 days, we are having Oldham Athletic FC first team squad come in to the Athlete Development Centre in Bolton One for a range of pre-season fitness tests including isokinetics, sprint time, jump power, VO2max and body composition tests. This should set some standards for the coaching and medical staff to work from through the pre-season period! Thanks to all assisting sport rehab and science students for making the session run smoothly!
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Barnsley FC pre-season testing in the Athlete Development Centre
Bolton Sport Rehab graduate John Lucas brought the Barnsley FC first team squad into our Athlete Development Centre in Bolton One for some pre-season fitness screening, covering isokinetics, sprint times, body composition and VO2max tests amongst other measures with the assistance from our sport rehab and science students. This is the first of several teams to attend our fantastic facility and benefit from the 'one-stop shop' of being able to collate all necesary data for setting up a pre-season schedule.
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Warrington Wolves Fitness Testing in the ADC
Today saw a punishing set of fitness tests on elite rugby league side Warrington Wolves. An inclining VO2max treadmill test to exhaustion followed by a wingate power test put the lads through their paces in our Athlete Development Centre in Bolton One.
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