Ep 131 - Questioning Assumptions, Sprint Variability, and Cutting the Fluff | Cam Josse
Do strength coaches need to think like researchers, or just understand how researchers think?
Cam Josse is an assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Detroit Lions and a PhD candidate at Jean Monnet University. Before the NFL he coached football at Indiana and Auburn, and he is lead author of a Journal of Sports Sciences paper on sprint acceleration in Division I football players.
Topics include:
Evidence tiers: Separating empirical, anecdotal, and experimental practice so you know how confident to be
Single variable causation: Why “we did more hang cleans and our 40 got faster” rarely holds up
Reading research: How to pressure test a paper, including with AI, and why methods matter more than conclusions
Cutting the fluff: Why Cam asks what he can remove from a program instead of what he can add
In-season training: Simple output work for healthy players, and variability for return to play
Sprint acceleration by position: How linemen and skill players solve the same task differently, and why there may be no optimal technique
For coaches and practitioners who want to be clearer about what they know and what they are guessing.
Cam Josse | Detroit Lions
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