{"id":564,"date":"2022-12-19T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T10:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=564"},"modified":"2022-12-19T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:08:42","slug":"new-publication-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"New Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dr Ben Langdown<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching with #TeamOUsport<\/a>, recently had an Open Access paper published for a project that he and his co-author Dr Alex Ehlert ran during the COVID-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n

The paper, titled \u2018An investigation into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon golfers\u2019 strength and conditioning and golf practice<\/a>\u2019 has been published in the International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe COVID-19 restrictions very quickly turned golfers\u2019 routines on their head and forced them to adapt to different practice and training environments and ways of interacting with their strength and conditioning coach. This mixed-methods study surveyed amateur and professional golfers (n\u2009=\u2009107), to examine the applied impact of the pandemic on their strength and conditioning, golf practice, tournament engagement, levels of stress and motivation and the impact upon diet and sleep.<\/p>\n

The research highlighted that, although training and practice continued to some extent, there were increased levels of stress and disturbed sleep. The lack of equipment reported by over 71% of the participants led to perceptions of reduced physical gains from training during this period where maintaining \u2018progressive overload\u2019 was challenging (i.e. with a lack of weights to lift at home). Furthermore, the research highlighted that coming out of lockdown posed a potential for increased risk of injury when normal practice and training resumed. Coaches were advised to monitor workload carefully, especially in future situations similar to the stay-at-home orders (e.g. when golfers are travelling for an extended period with restricted access to training \/ practice facilities).<\/p>\n

This project also involved surveying strength and conditioning coaches during the same period and Ben and Alex hope this will be published soon too.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Ben and his co-author Alex!<\/p>\n

Langdown, Ben<\/a> and Ehlert, Alex (2022). An investigation into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon golfers\u2019 strength and conditioning and golf practice. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching<\/i> (Early Access).<\/p>\n

DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/17479541221140016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Ben Langdown, Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching with #TeamOUsport, recently had an Open Access paper published for a project that he and his co-author Dr Alex Ehlert ran during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The paper, titled \u2018An investigation into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon golfers\u2019 strength and conditioning and golf practice\u2019 has been … Continue reading New Publication<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,3],"tags":[34,28,35,30],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-paper","category-publications","category-research","tag-covid-19","tag-golf","tag-online-coaching","tag-strength-and-conditioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}