
The Pillars of Athlete Monitoring with Don Moxley
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Episode Guest
Don Moxley
Exercise Physiologist, Sport Scientist, Project Manager, and Consultant
Current: Ohio State University, Athletic Department
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Episode Resources and Links
- Functional Movement Screening – https://www.functionalmovement.com/
In This Episode
- Body composition – weight, body fat, DEXA
- Physical output – strength, power, Functional Movement Screen (FMS)
- Cardiovascular testing – tests that replace VO2 max testing
- READINESS – Heart Rate Variability (HRV), specifically RMSSD
- 3:15 – A journey going from athlete to successful Exercise Scientist
- 6:00 – Analyzing the data of world champions
- 7:00 – Key performance metrics for world class wrestling
- 9:00 – Alternatives to VO2 max testing used by national champs
- 12:00 – Using FMS (Functional Movement Screen) with elite athletes
- 12:30 – Athlete monitoring: What to look for in the data
- 13:20 – Money Ball for wrestling and Signal vs Noise
- 16:00 – Force plates and power output: What champion wrestlers look for
- 18:00 – Organizing your athletes into groups for better data analysis
- 18:20 – Predicting competition performance based on prior data collection
- 19:15 – Physical prep is the biggest contributor to competition performance in talented athletes
- 20:20 – HRV balance as a predictor of performance in elite athletes
- 24:20 – How world champ athletes use RSA breathing, float tanks, mindfulness, and aggressive recovery modalities
- 26:00 – How psychological life stress really impacts performance, the results show
- 28:00 – When the numbers suddenly drop: What to do with red flag situations for athletes
- 29:00 – The numbers show why you can’t train through life stress and expect good results
- 31:00 – The hidden 4th event in triathlon that most people fail to train for: RECOVERY.
- 32:00 – How the HRV parameter RMSSD correlates to gold medals and championship titles
- 32:00 – “Readiness, based on HRV (Heart Rate Variability), predicts the success of my top athletes”
- 34:00 – Case study: Reducing an elite athlete’s training load leads to increased performance
- 34:00 – What to do if RMSSD (Heart Rate Variability) is too low for an athlete
- 41:00 – Narrowing down data types to make effective training decisions without wasting time
- 44:00 – Minimum Effective Dose (MED): The evolution of athlete monitoring
- 46:00 – Genetic differentiation in athletes: How smart quantification can get each person the best results