Performance
Wearables in Elite Sport: The Promise and the Noise
Catapult vests, recovery bands and glucose sensors promise to quantify the athlete completely. The data is real, but separating signal from noise is the hard part.
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Performance
Training science, biomechanics, fueling and the wearables and data driving elite human performance.
Performance
Sleep: The Most Underrated Tool in Sport
No supplement or recovery gadget comes close to the performance return of a few extra hours of sleep, yet it is the variable athletes neglect most.
Performance
Fueling for the Work Required: The New Science of Sports Nutrition
The old wisdom of eating less to get leaner is giving way to a more demanding idea: feed the training you are actually doing, and feed it properly.
Performance
Force Plates and the Data Revolution in Strength Training
Velocity sensors and force plates have turned the weight room into a measurement lab. The promise is real, but reading the numbers well is still a coaching skill.
Performance
VO2 Max: The Science of Endurance's Most Important Number
It is the single most cited figure in endurance physiology, but the science of how to raise it, and what it really predicts, is more interesting than the number alone.