Mark Russell - Research-Active Staff

Mark’s research interests focus mainly on the physiology of intermittent exercise and interventions to promote improvements in performance in team-sports athletes. As a result of this research, Mark has worked with a range of professional rugby and football teams, including: the Welsh National Rugby Union Squad and as a sports scientist with Swansea City Association Football Club. Mark has a PhD in exercise physiology that focused on investigating the development and use of a new football match simulation that incorporated technical actions throughout simulated exercise and he has also published peer-reviewed journals relating to the fields of sports nutrition and supplementation, applied strength and conditioning and the physiology of team sports.

Refereed academic journal papers.

• Russell, M. and Tooley, E. (In press). Anthropometric and performance characteristics of young male soccer players competing in the UK. Serbian Journal of Sports Sciences.
• Russell, M., Rees, G., Kingsley, M. and Benton, D. (2011). An exercise protocol that replicates soccer match-play. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 32, 511-518.
• Russell, M. and Pennock, A. (2011). Dietary analysis of young professional soccer players in one week during the competitive season. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25, 1816-1823.
• Russell, M., Kingsley, M. and Benton, D. (2011). The effects of fatigue on soccer skills performed during a soccer match simulation. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 6, 221-233.
• Russell, M. and Kingsley, M. (2011). Influence of exercise on skill proficiency in soccer: a review. Sports Medicine, 41, 523-539.
• Russell, M., Kingsley, M. and Benton, D. (2010). Reliability and construct validity of soccer skills tests that measure passing, shooting and dribbling. Journal of Sports Sciences, 28, 1399-1408.

Refereed abstracts/conference communications

• Russell, M. (2011). Dietary analysis of semi-professional soccer players. BASES Annual Conference, University of Essex
• Russell, M., Benton, D. and Kingsley (2009). A repeatable soccer-match-simulation that incorporates intermittent exercise and skills. BASES Annual Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University
• Russell, M., Kingsley, M. and Benton, D. (2008). Reliability of a new soccer skills test. Journal of Sports Sciences, 26, S142.
• Kilduff, L.P., Bevan, H., Owen, N., Kingsley, M.I.C., West, D., Blewett, D., Russell, M. and Cunningham, D. (2007). Optimal recovery for the utilization of postactivation potentiation in professional rugby players. Journal of Sports Sciences, 25, S82.

• Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (National Strength and Conditioning Association)
• Institute for Learning
• British Association of Sport and Exercise Scientists (BASES)

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