by Joshua Walusz | Aug 26, 2022 | What I am Reading
I recently spoke on a Panel for the Dodgers Sport Symposium and got access to the lectures. The Dodgers staff discussed the usage of water bags with their athletes and developing more robust motor patterns. The premise was to give feedback to the athletes on some...
by Joshua Walusz | Aug 26, 2022 | What I am Reading
I was recommended this book by Brandon McDaniel of the Los Angeles Dodgers. I was personally blown away by how far baseball S&C has evolved in the last decade when I attended the Dodgers Symposium in December. He cited some really good resources as to how he and...
by Joshua Walusz | Aug 26, 2022 | What I am Reading
The big take home is that humans create noise because we have bias. That bias leads to statistical variance which is called ‘Noise.’ This is important because what we do still has a lot of human decision-making, which can lead to increased noise. On the front end of...
by Joshua Walusz | Aug 26, 2022 | What I am Reading
We work in the influence business. We have to change people’s behaviors from negative to positive. An important concept that I pulled from Smith was that perspective is overwhelmingly the biggest factor. One of the areas that Smith discussed was males...
by Joshua Walusz | Aug 26, 2022 | What I am Reading
For the record, this book is more of an encyclopedia than a single subject book. This is an excellent resource for a lot of areas around performance and health. Personally, I struggle with these types of books. My general feeling is that these types of books come out...
by Joshua Walusz | Aug 26, 2022 | What I am Reading
This is an engineering book. The idea of thinking like an engineer is built upon learning how an engineer thinks. A key excerpt from this book was computer programming. Information theory is a central theme for computer science. The idea is that there is a logical...
