An Individualized Intervention Increases Sleep Duration in Professional Athletes.

Sargent, C, Lastella, M, Schwerdt, S, and Roach, GD. An individualized intervention increases sleep duration in professional athletes. J Strength Cond Res 35(12): 3407-3413, 2021-Athletes typically obtain less sleep than is generally recommended for healthy adults.

Accelerometer detected lateral sway during a submaximal running test correlates with endurance exercise performance in elite Australian male cricket players.

Objective: To identify whether movement patterns during a standardized submaximal running test (SSRT), assessed by accelerometry, were associated with improvements in endurance exercise performance.

Design: A retrospective analysis of data collected from the 2018-2019 Australian cricket preseason.

Methods: Thirty-nine high-performance male cricket players were studied (25±3 years, 82±6kg, 183±6cm).

External and internal workload demands of women's twenty 20 cricket competition.

Objective: To quantify the external and internal workloads of women's Twenty-Twenty (T20) cricket and compare match demands between International, National and Youth level cricket players.

Design: A retrospective analysis of data collected form T20 matches played by Australian teams (International level, n = 3; National level, n = 12; Youth level, n = 4) during the 2016-17 Australian cricket season.

Method: Thirty-four women's T20 cricket players playing for the Australian (International; n = 10), South Australian (National; n = 11) and South Australian Youth (Youth; n = 13) teams participated in the study.