On Reading… and Fear
On Reading… and Fear Here is a thought to consider: we buy and read books not in a hope we will learn something new, but in fear we will not learn something new and useful otherwise. We check what others are reading, a…
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Effect of Typical Variation of a Test on Confidence Interval
Confidence intervals gives us the range of a given statistic when generalizing from a sample to a population. The simplest example could be mean of a sample (e.g. average height) – what we are interested in are the gen…
Best of Complementary Training in 2014
Best of Complementary Training in 2014 2014… This has been the greatest year for me so far – I’ve got married to the best girl in the world and we got our first child. What could one possible ask for more? Sometime…
FREE E-book: “Triphasic Training – A High School Strength and Conditioning Manual”
Free Triphasic Training PDF Book: A High School Strength and Conditioning Manual Cal Dietz and Matt Van Dyke released a Triphasic Training pdf book “A High School Strength and Conditioning Manual”. This is a move tha…
Great Videos by Fusion Sport on Smartabase and Monitoring
Fusion sport has posted great videos on training monitoring on their YouTube channel. Some of the videos are from ASCA conference and some are from the latest international SMARTABASE user conference. I highly suggest yo…
The single most important thing to improve your “gainz” in the gym
Apparently people love clicking on posts entitled like this one: “The best exercises you are not doing”, “Five ways to beach body”, “Six new diets to make you lean” and so forth. I just hate those dumb articl…
Interview With Rob Gathercole on Alternative CMJ Analysis and NMF
I have recently read two great papers on using alternative metrics when analyzing countermovement jump (CMJ) with the goal of evaluating both acute (neuromuscular fatigue, or NMF) and chronic training effects written by …
New start at the Aspire Academy
I have recently joined the Football Performance and Science department at Aspire Academy in Doha, Qatar, as a football physiologist. My closest colleagues and supervisors are Kenny McMillan, Warren Gregson and Hani Al-H…
Banister Impulse~Response model in R [part 3]
Here is the another ‘playbook’, but this time on my own data set during high-frequency project I did in 2013. The data set features estimated 1RM using velocity (which I measure during the lifts). I have also measure…
Banister Impulse~Response model in R [part 2]
In the previous part I’ve introduced multivariate modeling of impulse and response using Banister model. In this part I will continue with exploration of this model, mainly visualizing reaction predicted by the model o…