Making Sense of Wearables with Sian Allen PhD | Koopcast Episode 139

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Episode overview:

Sian spent over 10 years providing sport science support to athletes and coaches in Olympic, Paralympic and professional sports across high performance environments in Great Britain and New Zealand. She began her career working as a Physiologist with British Swimming in the lead up to the London 2012 Olympics, before obtaining an applied PhD in statistical modelling of sport performance from AUT University while working with Swimming New Zealand.

Sian then took up a strategic role as Performance Intelligence Manager with Paralympics New Zealand into the Rio 2016 Games, managing innovation projects and data analysis systems across all Paralympic sports in New Zealand. She now combines her data analytics and exercise physiology backgrounds with the latest in technology and scientific research, working as a Research Manager in the Product Innovation team at lululemon athletica on the West Coast of Canada.

Episode highlights:

(23:42) Three ways to inform training: training architecture, using past athlete data, physiology

(32:53) Raw data: how to make use of data for training

(43:55) data as confidence: you are more than your watch score, performing well with low wearable scores, getting psyched out before your race

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