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Athlete Intelligence: How to Turn Data Into Decisions

Paperback, 224 pages. 80/20 Publishing. Out early 2027.

 

Your watch, ring and strap hand you more numbers than ever: heart rate variability, sleep score, training load, readiness, recovery. You still start every day with the same question. What should my workout be today?

 

Athlete Intelligence is my answer. It's written for runners, cyclists and triathletes, and it shows how AI can turn your daily wearable data into one clear training decision. I cover the few metrics that actually move your fitness, how to set volume and intensity around your own physiology, and how to get the most adaptation out of each session, each training phase and each season.

 

It also makes a case I care about. When you understand how AI turns data into decisions, you can give it better context and feedback, and the coaching you get back gets better too.

 

The book builds on my years of coaching and research, and on what my team and I have learned building Athletica.

 

Pre-order: Target | Les Libraires

 

ISBN 9798994780145

 

Cover of Athlete Intelligence: How to Turn Data Into Decisions by Paul Laursen, PhD

Science and Application of High-Intensity Interval Training

Human Kinetics, 2019. Edited with Martin Buchheit.

 

Martin and I edited this book to close the gap between the science of high-intensity interval training and the way coaches actually use it. It sets out the five types of HIIT, how to manipulate the variables that define each one, and how to fit HIIT into a program while managing fatigue and athlete health. Expert contributors then apply it to 20 individual and team sports.

 

It's also the scientific foundation Athletica is built on.

 

Get the book: HIIT Science | Amazon

 

ISBN 9781492552123

Cover of Science and Application of High-Intensity Interval Training, edited by Paul Laursen and Martin Buchheit
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