The Adaptable Athlete Podcast Questioning Assumptions, Sprint Variability, and Cutting the Fluff | Cam Josse
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Oct 21, 2026 Cam Josse, Detroit Lions assistant strength coach and PhD candidate, explores how coaches can question assumptions without losing practical judgment. He discusses evidence tiers, pressure-testing research with AI, avoiding single-variable explanations, and cutting training fluff. The conversation also covers in-season variability, return-to-play preparation, and why sprint acceleration demands different solutions by position.
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Separate Evidence From Confidence
- Coaching decisions sit across empirical, anecdotal, and experimental evidence tiers, each demanding different confidence levels.
- Injuries are especially difficult to explain because multiple interacting variables create confounding effects.
Pressure Test Every Research Paper
- Read methods and results rather than accepting a peer-reviewed paper’s conclusion as truth.
- Use AI to challenge methodology and statistics, then read the original paper and verify its criticisms.
Replace FOMO With Deliberate Scrutiny
- Identify the actual problem in front of you before copying solutions from social media.
- Play devil’s advocate, acknowledge uncertainty, and remove exercises that add no clear value.