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Every well-rounded strength and conditioning program has two distinct elements.

At Power Athlete H.Q, we refer to those experiences as science class and birthday party.

Enter Jay Daw's PhD, the ultimate combination. Here how the vice president of the NSA meandered through his career educating himself

and in turn his athletes. He is now the coordinator of athletic performance at the University of

Colorado at Colorado Springs and has the performance

industry leaders on speed dial. Today we get an inside look at what it's like creating studies,

sifting through the research findings, and maybe or maybe not, getting published. Like any

labor of love, the science of performance is a long road with its unique challenges. Here how Jay maintains

the integrity of his research through ethical practices like communicating his expertise to the

coaches involved. Dawes believes that it's more important to save an athlete from a foreseeable

injury than obtaining a completely uninterrupted study. If you're an aspiring performance academic, this interview with Jay is a must listen.

This is episode 172.

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podcast in strength and conditioning.

Same again, Luke.

The premier podcast in strength and conditioning.

Honestly, many have likened us to what Dippendots is to ice cream, the ice cream of the future. What are D and dots? You don't know what dip and dots? It's because it's the ice cream in the future. They're little frozen pellets of ice cream. Dude, well, I'll get you some dipping dots and blow your mind. It seems like a lot of work for this ice cream. That's the point. This is a lot of work to bring this information to our audience. Was that hyper?

Yes. I thought it was a hyperbowl. Oh. Hyperbowl. No? I'm clearly the idiot in the room.

Well, you're on the computer science major. But, all right, people, quick public service announcement before we get going.

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Yeah, and John keeps trying to open it like,

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