School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Kent

SUMMER EXAMS ARE FAST APPROACHING🚨🚨🚨 HERE ARE SOME TIPS AND TRICKS TO HELP KEEP ON TOP OF REVISION WORKLOAD!!!! GOOD LUCK🍀🍀

Been a BUSY week this week for the SERS team and students!
On Thursday, our final year undergraduate students presented their dissertation projects in the Student Thesis Conference to members of staff, and fellow first and second year undergraduate students!

Alongside student presentations, we had excellent key note talks from Ryan Carty and Stuart Williams, plus a super engaging employability fair in the afternoon with local sports businesses and teams chatting to students! Always a great day, plus pizza from Hut8 for lunch is always a bonus 🤩

Well done, and thank you to everyone involved!

Team Row4Cancer are the winners of the World’s Toughest Row 2024! 🎉🎉

After 37 days, 13 hours and 20 minutes at sea – a new world record almost two days ahead of the second placed crew – the four-man Dutch team arrived at Nelson’s Dockyard on 17 January, having produced an estimated 1.5 million oar strokes, with the individual members burning in excess of 5000 calories per day.

Congratulations to the team, and well done to SERS staff John, James, Megan, Chris, Alastair and Harry!

For more details on the race: https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/uncategorized/36022

Music Performance Scholar Heather is a unique student, balancing her studies with performing and teaching folk music, as well as excelling in hockey and other sports 🎵 🏑

A perhaps unlikely pairing of passions, but she makes it work harmoniously! Hear from Stand-out Scholar Heather: https://bit.ly/4fTIZ4H

Good Luck to Team Row4Cancer as they embark on their epic journey in the Worlds Toughest Row!

For the past two years, our incredible performance clinic has been supporting them with top-tier fitness assessments and a rigorous training regime, making sure they’re ready to compete!

They’ll be rowing 4,800km from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua & Barbuda — braving 20ft waves and burning 5,000 calories a day in the world’s toughest race.

We’ll be cheering the on every stroke of the way! 💪

✨FACILITIES TOUR✨
If you haven’t visited us yet why haven’t you?! Here’s a little taster of all the brilliant facilities and equipment we have in our dedicated Sport Science Spaces!

1. Students using our Alter-G treadmill in the Rehab Gym for injury support
2. Our BRAND NEW and BESPOKE Strength and Conditioning suite 😍
3. Our state of the art isokinetic dynamometer in our neuromuscular lab
4. Students dissertation testing in the physiology lab
5. State of the art treadmill with set-up for VO2 Max testing
6. One of our therapy and sport massage suites with massage couches
7. Our second physiology lab with start of the art treadmill set up
8. Our bespoke Biomechanics lab with a rigged 3D camera system (would you’ll also believe an old squash court!)
9. Our newly finished Environmental chamber, which allows athletes to exercise in extreme conditions, such as extreme heat or high altitudes

Want to see more? If you have applied to study with us, make sure you visit us on an upcoming applicant day 🤩

Ever wondered wondered what it's like to work with elite football players? 🤔 ⚽

Meet Kent PhD Student in Sport and Exercise Science, Zacharias (Zachi) Flore, who has spent the last few years of his PhD working with Bundesliga clubs Werder Bremen Frauenfußball and Hamburg1887.

Driven by a passion for athlete recovery, Zachi noticed a gap in evidence-based rehab protocols for players with lateral ankle sprains. So, he developed his own rehabilitation algorithm for use in professional clubs, which needed to be tested on a large scale, which is where his PhD comes in!

Read as Zachi shares more about his time in elite football so far ➡️ https://bit.ly/4fqkDiX

📸 Physiotherapist Zacharias Flore (left), helps Hamburg SV football player Stephan Ambrosius (centre) off the pitch alongside Physiotherapist Mario Reichert (right) - Wittens GbmH