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2014-2015 NBA MVP (Canadian)
A little over a week ago I posted some analysis of the three players currently in the running for MVP of the 2014-2015 NBA season – Curry, Westbrook, and Harden. This week, I wanted to look at the...
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Interview on the Pacey Performance Podcast
A few weeks ago I was invited to be a guest on the Pacey Performance Podcast. We talked about a number of topics regarding training, training philosophy, and sports science. The podcast interview can...
View ArticleThe Ebb & Flow of a Strength & Conditioning Program
I’ve talked a lot about training stress and adaptation in the blog over the years. As simple as it sounds, training really comes down to two things: Stress the body Recover and adapt That’s it! How you...
View ArticleBook Review: Special Strength Development For All Sports by Louie Simmons
I just finished reading Louie Simmons’ new book, Special Strength Development For All Sports. I don’t know if there is a person that has influenced strength training in the United States more than...
View ArticleInterview on the Physical Preparation Podcast
Mike Robertson was kind enough to have me on the Physical Preparation Podcast. We covered a number of topics such as: My journey in the field of strength and conditioning Soft tissue therpay Sports...
View ArticleThree things a high performance team can learn from The Profit
One of my favorite shows at the moment is CNBC’s, The Profit. The basic premise of the show is that millionaire investor, Marcus Lemonis, finds failing businesses, evaluates them, and then provided he...
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Daily Undulating Periodization & Performance Improvements in Powerlifters
Dr. Mike Zourdos and colleagues just published a new paper on Daily Undulating Periodization (Zourdos MC, et al. Modified Daily Undulating Periodization Model Produces Greater Performance Than a...
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2016 NBA Draft – How do you put together a winning team?
The 2015-2016 NBA playoffs have just begun meaning 16 fortunate teams are still playing ball while 14 others are preparing for the 2016 Draft and beginning to set up the structure of their team for...
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Functional Range Release & Developing Your Own System
This weekend I had the pleasure of once again learning from Dr. Andreo Spina at the Functional Range Conditioning Course. The course was assisted by Dewey Nielsen and Hunter Cook. For those who have...
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Concurrent Training – The Effect of Intensity Distribution
Periodization and planning of training is a topic that fascinates me as I enjoy studying how good coaches structure training and develop athletes. Lots of thoughts exist regarding the best...
View ArticleTwo New Podcast Interviews
I had the pleasure of being invited onto two great podcasts in the past few weeks and both just got published today. Historic Performance Podcast The first podcast was with James Darley on his Historic...
View ArticleBack to Blogging!
I’m generally not a fan of new year’s resolutions, but I decided to make one this year: get back to blogging. It’s been a while (a few years, actually!), and I’m excited to put some content down on...
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A Simple Approach to Analyzing Athlete Data in Applied Sports Science
Intro Evaluating whether an athlete has or has not improved in some key performance indicator is critical to understanding the success of a prescribed training or rehabilitation program. In the applied...
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Estimating Performance
When looking at sports statistics it’s important to keep in mind that performance is a blend of both skill and luck. As such, recognizing that all athletes exhibit some level of regression to the mean...
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Python Pivot Tables
Feedback from the last two blog entries suggests that people seem to enjoy the “how to” nature of them. Walking through how to do some basic coding steps while exploring, summarizing, visualizing, and...
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TidyTuesday — Powerlifting Performance & Age
TidyTuesday is a really neat project where every week a new data set is provided (for free) and anyone can download the data and share their findings. The basic idea was to get people to trade ideas on...
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Creating A Data Dictionary Function in R
In my previous post, I did a bit of impromptu analysis on some Powerlifting data provided from the TidyTusday project. When sitting down to work with a new data set it is important to familiarize...
View ArticleTidyX: Episode 1
Just started a fun project with my friend, Ellis Hughes, called TidyX. TidyX is a screen cast where we select a person’s code from the TidyTuesday project and go through their code line-by-line,...
View ArticleTidyX: Episode 2 — Sentiment Analysis & Word Clouds
In Episode 2 of TidyX, Ellis Hughes and I breakdown the code submission from Robin Sifre, who did some sentiment analysis of the transcripts from the popular TV show, The Office. The data for the...
View ArticleTidyX Episode 3: Polar Plots and an NBA Shiny Dashboard
In Episode 3 of TidyX, Ellis Hughes and I go over the polar plot code that Raniere Silva did for the latest TidyTuesday Project data set on traumatic brain injury. We then take the concept of polar...
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