PERFORMANCE INTELLIGENCE
The high Performance Files
Newman HP builds individualized performance systems for professional athletes, executives, teams, and rising competitors. Whether you need a full-service program, a course, or a free tool to start, there's a path here for you.
Individualizing Cognitive Performance Training Through Neurotechnology With Arctop’s Dan Furman
Dan Furman of Arctop explains why cognitive performance training must be individualized and how neurotechnology can help measure focus, stress, recovery, and mental readiness. The conversation explores how better brain data could support more precise and responsible performance training.
James Geering and the Weight First Responders Carry
After nearly a thousand conversations with first responders, clinicians, and high performers, James Geering has learned that resilience is about more than toughness. It also requires honest conversations, better recovery, strong leadership, and a culture where people do not have to carry everything alone.
The Shoulder Is the Last Link in the Chain
Arm care is often treated as a shoulder problem, but pitching is a whole-body movement. This article explains how the lower body, trunk, workload, recovery, and deceleration all shape a pitcher’s ability to stay healthy and throw effectively.
Understanding Athletic Identity in Coaching
This podcast explores how athletic identity can drive performance, but when it becomes tied to self-worth, it can work against the athlete. Learn what coaches need to understand about supporting the person behind the performance.
The Ancore Story
Isaac Lewis shares the story behind Anchor, a portable cable machine built by challenging the way resistance training equipment has always been designed. From torsion springs and endless prototypes to launching through COVID and learning directly from customers. This is a story about innovation, persistence, and building a better solution.
SCHAEFER'S LAW: TEN YEARS LATER
Schaefer’s Law explains the athlete development sequence: build strength, turn strength into speed and power, then train what the athlete composite demands next.
Mark Rippetoe is a Data Scientist in a Cowboy Hat: The science Hidden inside Starting STrength
The author of Starting Strength has a reputation for blunt opinions. Underneath it is a careful Data Scientist whose whole method runs on a notebook and a simple rule. A coach's look at how Mark Rippetoe really builds strength.
When Is It Okay for Kids to Start Lifting Weights? A 20-Year Perspective for Parents
A parent-friendly guide to when kids can safely start lifting weights, what age really matters, and why proper coaching, technique, maturity, and progression matter more than waiting for a magic birthday.
How to Know What Type and Amount of Training Is Right for Your Child
Every parent wants a clean answer: How many days a week should my child train? Should they lift? Are they falling behind? The real answer starts with a better question, “what does this athlete actually need”?
The Performance Index: The Mathematics of Knowing Who Will Fail
The Athletic Index: The scientifically proven framework coaches are using to evaluate and price athletes in the NIL era before writing a single check.
Effective Rep Schemes for Strength Training: An Ode to Jerry Martin and the Psychology of the Weight Room
For 25 years at UConn, Jerry Martin built some of the country's best-conditioned athletes—not with the latest technology, but with two deceptively simple tools. An ode to the slides, the open set, and the science of why they work.