Tag: sports science
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Gunnar Borg
Gunnar Borg built the instrument exercise science uses to ask people how hard they are working. A history from the 6–20 scale in 1962 to the CR10 in 1982 to Foster’s session RPE in 2001, plus notes on how RPE sits inside Afitpilot — and why the acute:chronic workload ratio is shown but deliberately not…
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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…
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William Sheldon
William Sheldon coined the term “somatotype” and named its three components — endomorph, mesomorph, ectomorph. He also produced personality theories and a photographic methodology that did not survive scrutiny.
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Adolphe Quetelet
Adolphe Quetelet founded modern anthropometry in 19th-century Brussels. He also designed the formula now misused as BMI. A short profile of his work and its limits.
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The somatotype experiment
The Afitpilot logo came from a sports science textbook — specifically, the somatochart on the cover of Carter and Heath’s Somatotyping: Development and Applications. Here’s how it became the brand mark.
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RPE: from a kiosk to Afitpilot
Three years ago I set up an RPE kiosk at a CrossFit box: an iPad on a stand near the exit, copied from the format you tap on the way out of an airport. After each WOD, athletes tapped a number from 1 to 10. This post covers what RPE is, what the kiosk actually…
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