Tag: athlete monitoring
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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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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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Daily readiness
Daily readiness — asking an athlete how they feel before training — is one of the cheapest pieces of monitoring infrastructure in elite sport. According to thirty years of evidence, also one of the most informative. A history from Hooper’s 1995 swimmers to the 2016 review that surprised the field, plus notes on how readiness…