Category: Afitpilot
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Load Management at the 2026 World Cup and What It Illustrates for Coaches
The best footballers on the planet are playing the most physically demanding World Cup ever staged. The recovery problem facing their sports science departments is the same one facing a coach with fifteen clients. Here’s what elite load management teaches everyday coaching.
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Programming for Injured Clients: A Three-Phase Approach to Load Management
Most coaches treat client injury as a pause button. The research on load management and re-injury risk says it should be treated as a redirection — with a three-phase system most coaches skip entirely.
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What Elite Coaches Do Differently (And Why Most Coaches Never Figure It Out)
What separates elite coaches from everyone else isn’t experience or talent — it’s systems. Four principles from peer-reviewed research that define world-class coaching practice.
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Ozempic Is Costing Your Clients Muscle: What the Science Says About Training Through GLP-1 Weight Loss
A quarter to nearly half of the weight lost on Ozempic and Mounjaro isn’t fat — it’s lean mass. The drug creates the deficit; what clients do inside it decides whether they keep their muscle. Why GLP-1 clients need adaptive, per-session programming, and why that’s impossible to deliver at scale by hand.
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The Centaur, Not the Oracle: Why the Best AI Coach Still Needs a Human
Everyone’s racing to build the oracle: the autonomous AI that knows everything, that you just trust. In coaching, that’s the wrong bet. The information is split across the athlete, the coach, and the machine — and none can absorb the other two. The stronger architecture isn’t replacement. It’s the centaur: the machine calculates, the human…
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HRV Explained for Coaches: What It Actually Measures, When to Use It, and When to Ignore It
HRV is a genuinely useful coaching tool. It’s also widely misunderstood. Here’s what the research says about when to act on it, when to ignore it, and how to combine it with RPE for a clearer picture.
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The 12-Week Athlete: What Happens When You Let Data Override the Plan
The athletes who improve most over 12 weeks aren’t the ones who follow the plan most faithfully — they’re the ones whose coaches adjust when the data says to. Here’s what the research shows.
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My Garmin Says My VO₂max Is 52. What Does That Actually Mean?
VO₂max is the most visible number on your fitness watch — and one of the least understood. Here’s what it means, how accurate your wearable estimate really is, and why the trend matters more than the number.
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Can You Change Your Somatotype? A Constrained-System View
Somatotype gets treated as a fixed label, but the Heath-Carter equations describe a constrained system. Height and bone breadth are locked; fat, muscle, and weight aren’t. A look at which inputs can actually move, by how much, and how fast — and why ectomorphy is the axis you don’t control directly.
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Kristian Blummenfelt and the Science Behind the World’s Most Dominant Triathlete
No athlete in triathlon history has held the Olympic, World Triathlon, Ironman, and 70.3 world titles at the same time. Here’s the physiology and training science behind how Kristian Blummenfelt did it.