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From early explorers to restricted practitioners: a qualitative analysis of coaches' development, context, and practices within U.K. mixed martial arts. (2024)
Journal Article
KIRK, C., CRONIN, C., LANGAN-EVANS, C., CLARK, D.R. and MORTON, J.P. [2025]. From early explorers to restricted practitioners: a qualitative analysis of coaches' development, context, and practices within U.K. mixed martial arts. International sport coaching journal [online], Ahead-of-Print. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1123/iscj.2024-0048

Despite its growing popularity and participation rates, mixed martial arts (MMA) coaching has not been the subject of much critical scholarly analysis. Accordingly, knowledge of this activity is limited, and inadequate, as a means of understanding th... Read More about From early explorers to restricted practitioners: a qualitative analysis of coaches' development, context, and practices within U.K. mixed martial arts..

The influence of aerobic capacity on the loads and intensities of mixed martial arts sparring bouts. (2024)
Journal Article
KIRK, C., CLARK, D. and LANGAN-EVANS, C. 2024. The influence of aerobic capacity on the loads and intensities of mixed martial arts sparring bouts. Journal of sports sciences [online], 42(22), pages 2093-2102. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2024.2419239

The influence of aerobic variables on mixed martial arts (MMA) performance is currently unknown. This study aimed to compare the laboratory-measured aerobic variables of MMA participants to the external load and intensity of MMA sparring bouts to det... Read More about The influence of aerobic capacity on the loads and intensities of mixed martial arts sparring bouts..

The physical progress of a professional Scottish soccer academy over a ten-year period. (2024)
Journal Article
CRAIG, T.P., MAUGHAN, P., MCARDLE, M.P., CLARK, D.R. and REID, D. 2024. The physical progress of a professional Scottish soccer academy over a ten-year period. Open access journal of sports medicine [online], 15, pages 101-110. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2147/oajsm.s477808

Increases in high-intensity locomotor activity of match play have been recorded in elite soccer. This places an onus on academy practitioners to develop players for the future demands of the game. At an academy level, locomotor data are not available... Read More about The physical progress of a professional Scottish soccer academy over a ten-year period..

Effects of resistance exercise, collagen ingestion and circulating oestrogen concentration on collagen synthesis in a female athlete: a case report. (2024)
Journal Article
LEE, J., TANG, J.C.Y., DUTTON, J., DUNN, R., FRASER, W.D., ENRIGHT, K., CLARK, D.R., STEWART, C.E. and ERSKINE, R.M. 2024. Effects of resistance exercise, collagen ingestion and circulating oestrogen concentration on collagen synthesis in a female athlete: a case report. Experimental physiology [online], Early View. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1113/EP091897

We investigated the effects of resistance exercise (RE), hydrolysed collagen (HC) ingestion and circulating oestrogen concentration on collagen synthesis in a naturally menstruating female CrossFit athlete. In a double-blind, randomised cross-over de... Read More about Effects of resistance exercise, collagen ingestion and circulating oestrogen concentration on collagen synthesis in a female athlete: a case report..