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'fourth sucks'...a guest-post from Jeremiah Barnert
Google 'fourth place finish', and you will find a myriad of quotes from athletes. Most make reference to it being the hardest place to finish - so close to a medal, you can taste it...but not quite...
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random thoughts from Sochi...
The Games have been over for a few days now - my plan was always to give a pretty thorough debrief of my experience - alas, the sport got in the way, and I was unable to write as much as I could....
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how to win more medals...a guest-post from Matt Jordan
This is another guest-post from my Canadian Sport Scientist and Strength Coach Matt Jordan. He last wrote a couple of weeks back, and his thoughts on sport science were very well-received. This post...
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doped...or duped?
This past week, I was quoted both in the Guardian and in Sports Illustrated by journalists Sean Ingle and David Epstein, respectively. The topic: doping. And specifically the latest controversy...
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how do we eliminate doping in sport?
I wrote the following post as a guest-post for journalist Ollie Wiliams' great site Frontier Sports last year. I thought I might update it based on the recent controversies surrounding bans for...
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lessons from Jiro...
In the basement of a nondescript building opposite the Ginza metro station in Tokyo, sits one of the world’s most exclusive restaurants. With only 10 seats, no menu, a three month waiting list, and a...
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random ramblings pt II...
It’s ALL connected!Science is concerned with analysis - the process of reducing a complex system into its constituent parts and dealing with those parts in isolation. Philosophy is concerned with...
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Best Books of 2014
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them”- Mark Twain2014 wasn’t a great reading year for me - I’m not sure how many books I got through, but it was...
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standing on the shoulders of giants...
if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants...- Sir Isaac NewtonA few months ago now, sprint coach Kebba Tolbert recommended a new album. Available for free on-line, Q Tip -...
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a coaches' guide to strength development: PART I
I’ve been meaning to write this post for about a decade or soNo - I’m not a procrastinator at allWhen I was young, things were easy.The young strength coach in the early 90s had a few journals they...
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a coaches' guide to strength development: PART II
Thank you for coming back for section II. This will be much lighter on the science - as well as a little shorter. We felt it was imperative that readers had a good understanding of the basics of the...
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a coaches' guide to strength development: PART III
Thanks for sticking with us.When organizing the outline for this series, I asked myself what would make the biggest difference for a coach TODAY? But more than that - what information do coaches need...
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a coaches' guide to strength development: PART IV: first principles on...
“It’s tough to make predictions - especially about the future”- Yogi BerraIf you have ever bought a mutual fund, you may have noticed the small print in the advertising reading “past performance is no...
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a coaches' guide to strength development: PART V: is history a good predictor...
I’ve been listening to a lot of Dan Carlin podcasts lately (he hosts two series’: Common Sense, and the awesome Hardcore History). A recent one - Past Performance and Future Results - suggested an...
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a coaches' guide to strength development: PART VI - awareness & data collection
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance … do not trust anyone—including yourself—to tell you how much you...
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on doping...a guest-post from Brad Walker
Obviously a lot of talk about doping this past week. And it’s a shame, because in a season including the amazing performances at NCAA Trials and USA National Championships in the United States, the...
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a conversation with Aries Merritt and Andreas Behm...
For the past month, we have been basing ourselves in Monaco. The guys at the track have been really helpful - basically giving us full run of the stadium - which houses 24 National Teams, including...
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on doping - part II...a guest-post from Brad Walker
If you haven't already, check out Brad Walker's first guest-post a couple of weeks ago on doping. While training in Monaco recently, we spent quite a bit of time discussing the recent positives, and I...
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The Big Dupe...a guest-post from Matt Jordan
The following short guest-post was inspired by this ridiculous research that was published last week. Regretfully, this garbage is about the general norm of the industry right now. Stupid research...
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Getting called up to the majors...
In March of 2010, I moved to the UK to work with sprinters, jumpers, and throwers at one of two High Performance Training Centers (Hi-PAC) that were a part of UK Athletics new two-Center...
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