When the same signal means different things for different athletes.
Population studies describe a cohort your athlete may not resemble. The training call has to come from their own history.
Field Notes
Practical notes on the questions coaches actually ask: what to change, what to watch, when to wait, and how to give an AI coaching agent the evidence packet before it writes.
Why one recovery number can be useful context and still fail to answer what a coach should change in training.
Read the note →A plain-English guide to turning athlete exports into one defensible weekly training adjustment.
Give the agent the driver, effect, interval, sample, caveats, and claim license before it writes.
A field guide to effect modifiers, the condition under which an average training effect flips sign.
Population studies describe a cohort your athlete may not resemble. The training call has to come from their own history.
Most tools render a verdict on three data points as confidently as on three hundred. The case for withholding one.
How placebo shifts, uncertainty, and evidence gates separate a finding from a flattering fit.
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