Dave McDowell @DSMStrength Twitter profile

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Dave McDowell

4 years

ATTN Coaches: In order to try to create tutorials that will help more coaches I have created a form where you can submit your idea for a SCT episode. When I create the sheet from your idea I will send you the sheet for free. Submit an idea here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

Today I posted the final video for the Google Sheets Athlete Dashboard Series. This 6 video series can be found here: To celebrate I will give away 5 copies of this dashboard on Friday Feb 12. To enter all you need to do is like & retweet this post.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Considering making a programming tool in google sheets where coaches will have the ability: 1. Save and recall set and rep schemes 2. Add their own right on the template Have a look at the video for proof of concept. Is there any interest in something like this ⁉️

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

If you wanted to learn how to create my G-Sheet dashboard all in one place I turned it into a free course on my website so that you could easily follow along. Link: Check it out

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

NEW POST I have put together tutorials on how to build several different versions of dashboards. Learn to make your own here: Monitoring: Long-term: Original: Or buy some here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

How do you display your athlete fitness testing data? would you be willing to share a screenshot? here is one of mine

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Make your own dashboard for free like the one in the photo. Youtube Series Here: Purchase Your Own Here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Over the past couple of years I have created many full tutorials on using Google Sheets to create your very own dashboard FREE playlists below: 1. 2. 3. 4. Let me know what you think

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Sorry for the lack of spreadsheet related content lol. This past week and a half have been a whirlwind as my wife and I welcomed our first child into the world. Hopefully get back to creating content in the new year.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Really like how this one turned out. New product incoming where you can display your athletes fitness testing results, send them an email with those results, compare to norms that you set. All in a visually appealing way.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Working on a new product for coaches to be able to display their fitness testing results in a highly customizable way. Lots of inspiration from @JacobGoodin if you haven't checked out his youtube channel you are missing out on an opportunity to get better. Coming Soon.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

Putting the final touches on the first video in this new @googlesheets video series where I take you start to finish to create this KPI dashboard for your athletes. Coming to a youtube channel near you.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Today @StrengthDebates tried to steal my content to promote his own business. See tweet below. It has since been deleted. You can make this document for yourself free here: or Buy here: and avoid people like this.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

To help bridge the gap in peoples understanding of spreadsheets, statistics, and sports science I have started a series on youtube "sport science basics". This series will tackle a variety of calculations, softwares and projects.

Sport Science Basics

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Over the past few years, I have put together tutorials on how to build several different versions of dashboards. Learn to make your own or buy some at links in thread:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Want to learn how to create this dashboard in Google Sheets? I have turned my full google sheets dashboard series into an Online Course on my new website that you can join and follow along FOR FREE. Check it out here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

New Project for Strength Coach Tutorials: Learn how to create this Set & Rep Planning tool to gather metrics on the sets and rep loadouts you use with your athletes & clients. Watch the video here: @msexcel @SCTutorials

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Want to learn how to create this fully dynamic Athlete Monitoring Dashboard in google sheets? In this video series I show you how... FOR FREE ▶️:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

Google Sheets can be a powerful tool for strength coaches it is cloud based, easy to use, and has been coming a long way with the visualisations. I have a whole playlist of google sheets projects for S&C coaches that I will be adding to in the future here:

Google Sheets for Strength Coaches

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

I am going to try to put more resources (videos) together on coding, and sport science for S&C and Coaches. If you are someone who would watch this content what do you need to know how to do in R, or Excel, but do not know how to do? I want to create things that provide maximum

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

What if you had a tool where in a few clicks of a button you could create a correlation matrix, perform transfer of training calculations, or even create a quadrant chart and highlight whatever variable you thought was important... well coming soon...

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Today I am releasing video 1 in a new series to create the Dashboard featured below. ▶️ I will give away 5 FREE copies of this dashboard on Friday. To enter simply Like & Retweet this post. "LTDash10" saves 10% at Checkout

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Coming Soon.. The dates / times might change a little bit.. but goal is to have a small cohort of coaches to help.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

📊Make a Dashboard: Monitoring: Long-term: Original: 🛒Buy a Dashboard: Buy Here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

🚨🚨 Have you wanted to make your own wellness dashboard? In this playlist I show you how for free. This dashboard is used by professionals in various sports around the world. Google Sheets Wellness Monitoring Dashboard Playlist.

Google Sheets Wellness Monitoring Dashboard

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

📊Make a Dashboard: Monitoring: Long-term: Original: 🛒Buy a Dashboard: Buy Here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

5 months

The Yearly Training Plan Before every season it is good practice to put together some sort of plan with all the key stakeholders. Many do not know how to format this so I created a template you can use. Purchase: Video Links in Thread

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

📊Dashboards give coaches a way to quickly and easily display key information for their athletes. Google sheets is a powerful platform for dashboarding and I show you how here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

Been seeing a lot of people posting dashboards in various software's that use player cards. This is not that difficult to do in Google Sheets or Excel. Tutorials coming soon. Hope you like them.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Having some fun today creating some new performance reports for my Rugby Squads. Maybe new tutorials to come?...

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

So I made this tool to allow coaches to explore their data and make decisions. Input your data and then you can run correlations, transfer, and quadrant charts to see what variables are related and use this to improve your program. Buy it here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

🚨WORKING ON SOMETHING NEW A workout tracking spreadsheet with the ability to save and load programs. This sheet will take all the stats of recorded exercises and chart in a dashboard so you can track progress. Also Save programs and load them with the click of a button.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Final video in the Athlete Wellness Monitoring Dashboard series goes up tomorrow morning. If you have not had a chance to check it out and build one for yourself you can follow along here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

I know companies offer advanced features, but in terms of quality, price, ease of use, and reliability in many different situations, I'm not sure it gets much better than arenagear for a sport timing system.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

Does anyone else choose their March Madness bracket by who the Strength Coaches are?

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

So which Strength Coach is everyone picking to win the NCAA Basketball Tournaments? At least that is how I pick my brackets

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

Something new is coming for any coaches who like programming in G-Sheets... Stay Tuned.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

📊Sport Science is not fancy charts, dashboards or statistics. It's about using information available to answer meaningful performance related questions in your situation.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

@RUGBY_STR_COACH Give them what they want, so you can give them what they need.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

One of the best parts of my job is being able to help mentor and educate the many interns that keep @Brock_SP running. These slides are from a presentation I give on Movement and Agility training and a model used to program these types of sessions.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

7 months

Working on a new type of report that can show different qualities, as well as a trend for these qualities over time. A variation on this product is available on my website here: I also have several videos on how to create similar reports on my youtube

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

📊Make a Dashboard: Monitoring: Long-term: Original: 🛒Buy a Dashboard: Buy Here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

What if you had a sheet where you could input all of your data and with a few clicks explore it? Display 1. Correlations between any metric 2. Transfer of training calculations 3. Quadrant reports Strength Coach Data Report Coming Soon.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Maybe unpopular opinion.. but training programs don't have to be constrained to arbitrary times of 45min or 1hr.. the necessary work takes as long as it takes.. sometimes less time, other times much more time.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

Learn how to build this Athlete Monitoring Dashboard a Thread

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

I made this tool to allow coaches to quickly explore their data. This tool will calculate correlations, transfer of training, and allow you to make quadrant charts with any variables that you want. get yours here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

It has been a while since I have put together a new dashboard video series. Starting tomorrow I will be posting the first video in a series to make the dashboard you see below for athlete wellness monitoring. Hope you like it!

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

🪪 I have seen many people use athlete player cards recently in their dashboards. You can create this effect in google sheets pretty easily Learn How Here: 🎥1: 🎥1: 🎥3:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

5 months

🧵 This is the first full dashboard that I ever did a tutorial on how to make. I sell all my dashboards to save you time here: or This thread has all videos.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

One of my big goals this year has been to streamline, and make our reporting more fun and informative. I have been working on dashboards for a couple of years now and I think I finally have something that I like. All using the skills from my videos:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

Here is an example of some of the functionality of the new Google Sheet athlete dashboard project I am releasing on Youtube. This video series will take you from a blank google sheet to the dashboard in the video. Playlist Link: 📹:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

📊 I am launching a new series aimed to help practitioners with some of the skills needed to start doing their own data analysis. The first video deals with descriptive statistics. How to Calculate Descriptive Statistics In Google Sheets

How to Calculate Descriptive Statistics In Google Sheets

In this video we start a new series on sport science basics. These videos are designed to help you learn the basics of statistics, data, and sport science an...

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

In the newest Strength Coach Tutorials video I show you how to make this profile dashboard graph that displays High / Low and Athlete score based on T-Scores. Video Goes Live at 12:15am 📹:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

Hey @altis check out our #altis1080giveaway . At @brockbadgers Sports Performance we do our best to blend training, technology, and fun in an interactive and educational environment. Thank you for the consideration. @VickiBendus @TaylorTiessen @Brock_SP

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

With all the benchmarking going on thanks to @ForcePlateCoach here is our initial benchmarking for Women's Collegiate Rugby IMTP. Will separate by position, weight classes etc in future.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Quadrant or Cartesian plots offer a great way to look at how metrics relate to each other in a population. These can be used for many different reasons and in the coming weeks with interest I could do a tutorial on how to create a custom one.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

🚨NEW DASHBOARD ALERT To follow along with this video series and learn how to make this athlete monitoring dashboard you can watch the videos here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

In this morning’s @Brock_SP 2021 Summer Internship Presentation I took the group through my thoughts around the periodization process.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Based on our first round of IMTP testing here are the standards using @ForcePlateCoach method. This is 2 trials each of Men's Collegiate Rugby athletes all positions.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

We can argue about equipment sponsors or other things, but when the food is this different it means that you just don't care enough to do a good job! That is not ok!

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

📊To maximize your reporting for athletes, work to minimize the lag time between information in and reporting out. The longer it takes for athletes to get their results back the less connection they have to the testing results. Automation & Systems are your friend here.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

I have started a new series on creating an annual plan template in @googlesheets . If you would like to purchase this template you can do so here: Or follow along and make your own Google Sheets Annual Plan Template | Part 1 📹

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

A quick example of the type of dashboard I would use to begin to look at our forceplate metrics overtime. Would there be interest in a deeper dive on how to create things like this?

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

For anyone who is still paying attention, I am going to put out Part 4 of the google sheets athlete dashboard project tomorrow. In this one we will go through how to create the radar chart. Link:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

I took my YouTube series on creating your own athlete dashboard and turned it into a FREE online course where you can go through the videos step by step. If this sounds interesting you can register here:

Create your own Google Sheets Athlete Dashboard | DSMStrength

In this course you will learn step by step how to create your own Google Sheets Athlete Dashboard.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Looking forward to presenting tomorrow to our Sport Science Internship on the Overview & Applications of force plates in our performance setting. This will be the final presentation in a year long journey that our students have taken which will culminate in a final project for

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Happy to be speaking at the @CSCA_ national conference this year. Hopefully help some coaches figure out how to better use some of the information they are collecting to inform their process.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

In my opinion athlete monitoring and data should be about searching for more green lights... not red ones

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Hey Sport Tech Companies RELAX with the subscription fees or give the product for free. A lot to ask for me to purchase your product and then pay monthly to be able to use it.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

📈 I created a playlist that has some basic operations in sports science that you can do in google sheets. This is a great starting point for anyone starting their google sheets journey. Link: Please comment any other videos you want to see

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

So awesome to see when people take your designs and run with them to create something awesome for themselves! great job coach!!

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

A quick video on how to use filter, and z-scores in @googlesheets to create a KPI dashboard or Tracking graph. We will build out these ideas in future videos. Google Sheets KPI Dashboard with Filter & Z-Scores | DSMStrength

Google Sheets KPI Dashboard with Filter & Z-Scores | DSMStrength

In this video I show you how to make a kpi dashboard in google sheets that uses the filter function and z-scores to have a dynamically updating chart to show...

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

Athlete reporting is storytelling. You should be crafting your charts, tables, and statistics to tell the story you want the athlete to read.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Are you using google sheets for your S&C and Data work? I have created a few playlists now to help you with various projects. GSheet for Coaches: GSheet Dashboard: GSheet Annual Plan: All for FREE!

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

Great Resource Completely Free

Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

📊Make a Dashboard: Monitoring: Long-term: Original: 🛒Buy a Dashboard: Buy Here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

R Studio is a hot topic right now with S&C coaches. In the latest video I show you how to make a correlation matrix to look at the relationships with your metrics in R. Check out the playlist "R for Strength Coaches" more to come.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

In the latest strength coach tutorials video, I show you how to use VBA to double click in your annual plan template and add a value to this cell. 📹:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

Finally launched for registration. Really looking forward to helping a group of hungry coaches level up. Link:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

In Strength Coach Tutorials #74 I show you how to quickly and easily put together this dashboard to look at key metrics using pivot tables and slicers. The example data is using the @HawkinDynamics forceplate system. 📹 Hope you like it!

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

New Strength Coach Tutorials video coming out tomorrow morning. In it I am going to show you how to quickly and easily create this athlete dashboard using z-scores, t-scores and a Total Athlete Score based on the 2019 paper by Anthony Turner. Hope you like it.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

2 years

New Dashboard Alert Team Monitoring report that has the option to select between metrics, 7-28 day trends, and show updated notes and status of athlete. This would be a great addition to bring to coaches meetings to have an up to date look at each athlete.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

9 months

🚨 NEW GPS STYLE DASHBOARD This is a new dashboard that can be used to examine athlete GPS and S&C metrics. Would anyone be interested in this?

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

Not so long ago I created a Data Report for coaches. This report allows coaches to enter their own data and create their own 1. Correlation Matrix 2. Transfer of Training Calculations 3. Quadrant Charts I think this is a valuable tool for coaches who have questions about

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

I have been making a push lately to put together different types of excel videos around putting together dashboards, and visualisations to hopefully give coaches the tools to be creative, I recently put everything into a playlist here: ▶️

Athlete Dashboard and Visualizations

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

9 years

You can Find me on Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, and Google+ @dsmstrength . Thank you for all the #support

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Some slides from a recent presentation I did for our Sport Science Internship around Data Visualisation and Communication. While you may not need to be an expert in this as a Coach, having some competency can greatly improve the way in which you deliver information to coaches

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

5 months

The Sport Data Mentorship covers 6 topics, guest speakers, social group, file sharing, round table meetings, and discussion board to help you level up your sport science and data skills as a practitioner. Program starts week of June 17th Learn more here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Being able to save and quickly recall your set and rep schemes in your google sheets template makes writing programs exponentially faster. Learn How Here:

Google Sheets Workout Template - Save & Recall Set & Rep

In this video I show you how to add the ability to save and recall set and rep schemes to your google sheets workout template. This is a powerful feature so ...

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Working on a new slide deck for a presentation to a coaches group this weekend.. working title right now. Hopefully get this up on my website in future.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

It is tempting to jump towards fancy graphs, and analysis but ensuring that you have clean, useable data is paramount in making sure your data analysis and visualization is accurate. Learn some strategies here:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

5 years

I appreciate when coaches are genuine and share what they do. #coachesvscovid19 has been awesome thus far and @LewisCaralla gave more take always then I could write down in 40 minutes.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

5 months

What if you could just dump your raw @teambuildr and @HawkinDynamics data into a master database and begin to explore things like completion, attendance, volume load, lift progress, and FP metrics..

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

4 years

Just ordered my copy of the @NSCA Sports Science textbook. Really looking forward to this one this has been a needed resource for a long time. Anyone else picking one up?

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

3 years

Quadrant charts can be a great way to explore the relationships between different variables. Learn How Here: or Join DSMStrength and have access to all premium content:

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

Collecting data is easy.. operationalizing it.. automating it.. communicating it is hard. Try to automate as much of this process as possible to improve your ability to deliver on the info you can collect

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

1 year

The sections I use in most of my programs Warm Up Preparation Power Loaded Power Strength Accessory Cooldown or ESD Depending what phase we are in each gets emphasized more or less. This helps me stay accountable to qualities that need trained.

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

5 months

Amazing! Another coach taking action to improve their program. I have several resources like this for free on youtube, and other ones available for purchase on my website. Great work coach!

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@CamMignone

5 months

After a year of procrastination, the APT performance dashboard has finally been completed! Starting Monday morning, our student athletes will be able to check their individual progress as well as compare their stats with their friends and teammates. @DSMStrength

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Dave McDowell

@DSMStrength

5 months

This year my sport science internship students will be learning coding in R. I am starting to put together the lessons for them to walk them from never using R to doing some advanced calculations and app building with a sport science lens.

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Dave McDowell

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@clh_strength @RUGBY_STR_COACH

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