Dietary sugar comes from lots of different sources
Most people know that excess sugar is not good for them but not many are really aware of where dietary sugar actually comes from. It's not just the sugar we know about in things like candy, cakes, and drinks. Sugar is everywhere in our diets. In fact, it's an important part of our diet. The big misunderstanding though is thinking that as long as we don't add sugar to the things we eat and drink then we're not really getting dietary sugar. This is wrong. Read more...
Who won the Malaysia Games? Selangor, but Terengganu is the real star of the show!
The recent Malaysia Games competition (SUKMA) in Ipoh marked the first time that the winner of a multi-sport competition changed depending on which scoring method was used. In all of our previous analyses the team with the most gold medals won. Whether the popular gold medal count or the USSA Malaysia 5-3-1 point system was used the result was the same, until the recent SUKMA that is. This is the first time the team with the most gold medals and the team with the most points were different. Read more...
Deliberate practice vs. late specialization
Sport development gurus familiar with the growing mountain of research surrounding athletic expertise have a hard time reconciling the time necessary to accumulate thousands of hours of deliberate practice with the negative effects of specializing in a single sport at too early an age. The literature largely ignores this conflict but luckily the big brains at USSA Malaysia have considered this and we think we have a solution that resolves this problem. Read more...
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