{"id":700,"date":"2020-04-15T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/?p=700"},"modified":"2020-04-15T09:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:47:34","slug":"keeping-your-brain-active-in-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/2020\/04\/15\/keeping-your-brain-active-in-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping your brain active in isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Our team at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences have come up with some great suggestions for some sports series and books to keep you occupied and educated while in isolation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/John-Dickenson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/John-Dickenson-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/John-Dickenson-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/John-Dickenson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/John-Dickenson.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sport-sciences\/people\/333\/dickinson-john\"><strong>Dr John Dickinson, Reader<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John recommends watching the documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Andy-Murray-Resurfacing\/dp\/B081Z731N2\">Andy Murray: Resurfacing<\/a> on Amazon Prime. The film follows the Wimbledon winner\u2019s experience of injury from 2017 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>John also recommends watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/title\/80244928\">The English Game<\/a> on Netflix, a historical drama about the beginnings of English football.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/James-Hopker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-672\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/James-Hopker-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/James-Hopker-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/James-Hopker-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/James-Hopker.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sport-sciences\/people\/2184\/hopker-james\">Dr James Hopker, Head of School<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are interested in getting an insight into what it is like to be involved in the world of elite sport I recommend you watching \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/title\/81130094\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">The Least Expected Day<\/a>\u201d on Netflix which follows the Spanish Movistar Professional cycling team during the 2019 professional cycling season. Alternatively if you are interested in sports nutrition in elite sport, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Eat-Race-Win-Season-1\/dp\/B07DX8BML1\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Eat, Race, Win<\/a>\u201d on Amazon Prime follows the work of a performance nutritionalist working with a professional cycling team during the Tour de France. Both documentaries support the physiology, training and nutrition modules on the sport and exercise science degree, and will be of interest to anyone who is keen on\u00a0pursuing a career in elite sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A good book to read is Bounce by Matthew Syed and James also recommends listening to the Science of Sport podcast<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/Chris-Fullerton.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-673\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/Chris-Fullerton-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/Chris-Fullerton-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/Chris-Fullerton-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/Chris-Fullerton.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sport-sciences\/people\/335\/fullerton-chris\">Dr Chris Fullerton, Lecturer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chris recommends reading Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/C.O-Malley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-670\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/C.O-Malley-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/C.O-Malley-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/files\/2020\/04\/C.O-Malley.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Callum A. O\u2019Malley, PhD student, Graduate Teaching Assistant<br \/>\n<\/strong><b><br \/>\n<\/b>Callum recommends the following books to read:<br \/>\nWork Physiology Physiological Bases of Exercise\u00a0\u00c5strand et al. (any edition is a good edition)<br \/>\nEndurance Performance in Sport: Psychological Theory and Interventions &#8211; by Carla Meijen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our team at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences have come up with some great suggestions for some sports series and books to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/2020\/04\/15\/keeping-your-brain-active-in-isolation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63668,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}