DR. SHAWN ARENT | Optimizing Performance with Sensible Training

Dr. Shawn Arent is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Exercise Science at University of South Carolina Sport Science Lab. Shawn has worked with a multitude of teams, coaches and athletes including professional baseball, hockey and soccer players. In this episode Meg and Dr. G learn about proper training methods, as well as what crafting a scientific hypothesis and experiment for athletes looks like. Dr. Arent describes how using science can be a way to discover new avenues of performance and how it can be used to recontextualize the information that coaches use in order to prove a more nuanced understanding of their athletes.