NOTABLE BOOKS & RESEARCH GUIDING OUR COACHING

BOOKS

Science and practice of strength training 3rd edition. Zatsiorsky, Kraemer, Fry.

Special strength training manual for coaches. Y Verkhoshansky & N Verkoshansky.

Explosive power and jumping ability for all sports. Starzynski & Sozanski.

Olympic weightlifitng 2nd edition. Everett.

Scientific training for endurance athletes. Skiba.

How bad do you want it? Fitzgerald.

RESEARCH

General physical activity for health

Canada’s dietary guidelines. https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/guidelines/.

Canadian 24 hour movement guidelines. https://csepguidelines.ca/.

Physical activity guidelines for americans, 2nd edition. https://odphp.health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/Physical_Activity_Guidelines_2nd_edition.pdf.

Association of daily step count and step intensity with mortality among US adults. Saint-Maurice et al (2020). 

Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis. Ding ding et al (2025).

Association of cardiorespiratory fitness with long-term mortality among adults undergoing exercise treadmill testing. Mandsager et al (2018).

Resistance training

Muscle Mass and Strength Gains Following Resistance Exercise Training in Older Adults 65–75 Years and Older Adults Above 85 Years. Marzuca-Nassr et al (2024).

Bridging the gap between strength-span and lifespan. Faigenbaum et al (2024).

Longitudinal analysis of physical function in older adults: The effects of physical inactivity and exercise training. Manning et al (2023).

Association of Muscle Strength With All-Cause Mortality in the Oldest Old: Prospective Cohort Study From 28 Countries. Andersen et al (2024).

Heavy resistance training at retirement age induces 4-year lasting beneficial effects in muscle strength: a long-term follow-up of an RCT. Bloch-Ibenfeldt et al (2024).

Using Powerlifting Athletes to Determine Strength Adaptations Across Ages in Males and Females: A Longitudinal Growth Modelling Approach. Latella et al (2024).

High-Intensity Resistance and Impact Training Improves Bone Mineral Density and Physical Function in Postmenopausal Women With Osteopenia and Osteoporosis: The LIFTMOR Randomized Controlled Trial. Watson et al (2018).

Exploring the Dose-Response Relationship Between Estimated Resistance Training Proximity to Failure, Strength Gain, and Muscle Hypertrophy: A Series of Meta-Regressions. Robinson et al (2023). 

Partial Vs Full Range of Motion Resistance Training: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Wolf et al (2023).

May the Force Be with Youth: Foundational Strength for Lifelong Development. Feigenbaum et al (2023).

Influence of Strength Training Variables on Neuromuscular and Morphological Adaptations in Prepubertal Children: A Systematic Review. Pastor et al (2023).

Resistance Training For Children and Adolescents. Stricker et al (2020).

Endurance training

The intensity of motivation. Brehm & Self (1989).

Perception of effort during exercise is independent of afferent feedback from skeletal muscles, heart, and lungs. Marcora 2009.

The Psychobiological Model of Endurance Performance: An Effort-Based Decision-Making Theory to Explain Self-Paced Endurance Performance. Pageaux 2014. 

Translating fatigue to human performance. Enoka & Duchateau (2016).

Performance Fatiguability Is Not Regulated to A Peripheral Critical Threshold. Thomas et al (2018).

Oxygen Uptake Kinetics. Poole & Jones (2011).

The Power-Duration Relationship: Physiology, fatigue, and the limits of human performance. Burnley & Jones (2016).

The ‘Critical Power’ Concept: Applications to Sports Performance with a Focus on Intermittent High-Intensity Exercise. Jones & Vanhatalo (2017).

Concurrent exercise training: do opposites attract? Coffey & Hawley (2017). 

Variability in exercise tolerance and physiological responses to exercise prescribed relative to physiological thresholds and to maximum oxygen uptake. Meyler et al (2022).

Critical power and work-prime account for variability in endurance training adaptations not captured by VO2max. Collins et al. (2022).

Exercise Prescription When There Is No Exercise Test: The Talk Test. Foster et al (2018).

Simple Approach to Defining Training Intensity in Endurance Runners. Foster et al (2022).

The fourth dimension: physiological resilience as an independent determinant of endurance exercise performance. Jones (2024).

Programming Interval Training to Optimize Time-Trial Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Rosenblat et al (2021).

Planning & periodization

Scientific Bases for Precompetition Tapering Strategies. Mujika & Padilla (2003).

Periodization theory: confronting an inconvenient truth. (Kiely 2018).

Planning for physical performance: the individual perspective. (Kiely 2011).

Nutrition

Nutrition and athletic performance. American college of sports medicine (2016).

A randomized trial to assess the potential of different beverages to affect hydration status: development of a beverage hydration index. Maughan et al (2016).

Metabolic adaptions to weight loss: implications for the athlete. Trexler et al (2014).

A review of the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity. Hall (2017).

Timing matters? The effects of two different timing of high protein diets on body composition, muscular performance, and biochemical markers in resistance-trained males. Lak et al (2024).