Disclosure: I write all my articles without the use of generative AI. I don’t know if that matters to you, but it does to me.
If you’re suffering from TikTok derangement syndrome and can only suffer 15 seconds of this article, let me try to deliver your fix up front.
I’ve had two liver transplants. The first was from a living donor in 2013; the second from a cadaveric donor in 2025. Getting an organ transplant is profoundly humbling—but receiving two? I consider myself one of the luckiest men on earth.
I wrote my first post in 2011. For close to 15 years, I’ve tried to answer all types of training questions—ranging from the effectiveness of beet juice to how to boost your VO₂ max.
I started writing about sports nutrition on the blog about 10 years ago, when research on carbohydrate timing was still relatively new.
When I was 17, a doctor told me I had a rare liver disease and would eventually need a transplant. How does a high school kid make sense of organ transplantation? I don’t think I ever did.
In this Journal Club we’re taking a TLDR approach to examining a new study that looked at the impact of caffeine on your sleep.
** The following is a post from our sister site over at Durable Fitness**
In our last post, we described a progressive overload strategy that combines an expectation of adding weight on future workouts coupled with a sub-maximal RPE prescription.
Today, I want to introduce you to a new coach at Data Driven Athlete, Jacob Velasco.
I started working with Jacob a little over a year ago and knew we’d hit it off when I spotted posters on his wall paying homage to iconic alternative rock bands of my youth.
I’m excited to announce a new general strength and fitness coaching project called Durable Fitness.
Durable Fitness has been on my mind for the past four years as personal health challenges have required me to invest all my training energy into making my body as durable as possible.
Since I began coaching in 2009, the general wisdom regarding “training with a power meter” has been to perform a power test every 4-6 weeks to best monitor changes in fitness.
