Athlete Intelligence - by Paul Laursen (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

An authoritative guide to training in the age of AI from an exercise physiologist and coach who knows the science behind the screens.

Today's athletes have access to more data than ever before. But they still start every day with the same question: What should my workout be today?

Watches, rings, and straps present a firehose of numbers--heart rate variability, sleep score, training load, readiness, recovery. Some athletes hire a coach to extrapolate a plan from the numbers, but most athletes resort to guesswork.

Athlete Intelligence allows runners, cyclists, and triathletes to harness AI to evolve their performance. AI offers athletes tangible advantages:

• Translating the daily flood of wearable data into one clear decision.
• Locking in on the handful of metrics that actually move fitness.
• Flexing training volume and intensity to individual physiology.
• Maximizing adaptation over each session, phase, and season of training.

By learning how AI converts data into decisions, athletes can supply the context and feedback that makes the technology even more effective. AI is a gamechanger in the pursuit of human performance, imparting confidence that today's training will yield results and a personal best is within reach.

About the Author

Dr. Paul Laursen is an exercise physiologist with more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and co-author of Science and Application of HIIT (Human Kinetics, 2019). He is a contributing author to the training chapters in the forthcoming fifth edition of Tim Noakes' Lore of Running (Human Kinetics). He is co-founder and CEO of Athletica, an AI platform for endurance athletes, and an adjunct professor at Auckland University of Technology.