Spider Charts Sucks!
Spider Charts Sucks! I am openly sharing my opinion (backed up with work by Stephen Few) that spider charts sucks. It is time for the sport scientists to move away from PES (Pro Evolution Soccer; game on Sony Playstation…
Year: 2014
Interview with Matt Barr
Interview with Matt Barr When I saw Matt Barr’s keynote presentation on “Developing speed and power in contact field sport athletes” at ASCA Conference in Melbourne, Australia, I decided to interview Matt and take …
How to Analyze Movement Screen Tests?
How to Analyze Movement Screen Tests? In the recent post I shared the movement screen we designed and implemented. The question now is how to analyze the data and make real life decisions on it? What do we need to get fr…
How to Analyze Movement Screen Tests? [Addendum]
How to Analyze Movement Screen Tests? Continuing on the previous post I had an idea to make further analysis. Please note that this is only a playbook. The idea is to transpose the data, and instead of clustering the ath…
Movement Screen (We Have Used)
When I was in Hammarby IF (Stockholm, Sweden) we (myself and PT Mikael Klotz) created our own screening tool, mostly using FMS and PCA ideas (along with reading some research papers). One thing that most screening system…
FREE Annual Planner for Sports and Strength Card Builder Print Out
FREE Annual Planner for Sports and Strength Card Builder Print Out I would love to rise an awareness on the two tools for coaches. Yes, coaches – not only strength and conditioning coaches and sport scientists, but coa…
What Do You Need to Know as a Sport Scientist Besides Sport Science
There are new roles emerging in contemporary sports field: sport scientist and performance manager. To be honest I have no clue how to define them – sometimes they are just a way to break out of the normal terminology …
Welcome to the new Complementary Training website
The new Complementary Training, besides bringing the quality content from the old BLOG, will include updated state-of-the art PRODUCTS that will help you coach more and worry less on Excel, FORUM where you can participat…
No-Holds Barred Interview with Carl Valle
It is always fun and insightful to have a no-holds barred talk with Carl Valle. Hate him or love him, whatever you ask him he always provide no BS answer and for that he needs to be respected. I took the chance to ask hi…
How to (Pretend to) Be a Better Coach Using Bad Statistics
How to (Pretend to) Be a Better Coach Using Bad Statistics Here is a simple scenario from practice: Coach A uses YOYOIRL1 test and Coach B uses 30-15IFT (for more info see paper by Martin Buchheit, which also stimulated …