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Editorial standardsEditorArjun RaghavanRuns the deep dives and decides which ones are worth the six weeks they take. Writes the training-science pieces and reviews anything that ends in a prescription a reader might act on, on the principle that the sentence telling someone how to train is the one most likely to be wrong. Keeps the limitations chapter in every article and argues for making it longer.
6 written · 22 reviewedSleep and recovery editorNadia HalloranCovers everything the body does overnight: sleep staging, heart rate variability, resting heart rate and the gap between what a wrist sensor measures and what it reports. Wrote most of the recovery documentation and reviews the pieces that tell people what a number means about their health.
19 written · 19 reviewedStrength and programmingMarcus OyelaranWrites about how muscles are loaded and how long they take to come back, which is the argument underneath every training split on the site. Handles the strain and Training Lab documentation, and reviews programming advice for the failure mode it always has: a plan that works for the person who wrote it.
20 written · 12 reviewedNutrition editorPriya SundaramCovers food, energy availability and the blood panels athletes order without knowing what to do with them. Wrote the protein deep dive and the bloodwork pages, and reviews anything that touches diet, where the distance between a study population and a reader is usually larger than the article admits.
6 written · 11 reviewedWearables and consumer techElena VasquezWrites the comparisons and the alternatives roundups, and owns competitors.ts, which means every price on this site is her fault if it is wrong. Re-checks each figure against the vendor's own page on a schedule rather than when someone complains. Reviews for the thing comparison pages do worst: quietly failing to name a case where the other product wins.
17 written · 16 reviewedProduct documentationDaniel OkonkwoWrites the docs, which means most of what is on this site by page count. Works from the shipping build rather than the spec, so the documentation describes the app that exists. Reviews for the docs content policy: inputs, personalisation and direction, never the coefficients underneath them.
28 written · 12 reviewedData and methodsYuki TanabeChecks the arithmetic before a piece ships: what the chart is actually plotting, whether the effect size survives the confidence interval, and whether a pooled figure is being passed off as a measurement. Every source line under every chart on this site went past this desk. Writes the pieces that are mostly numbers.
9 written · 17 reviewedField testingFreya LindqvistWrites the test protocols, and runs each one before it is published, which is why several of them carry a note about the way they go wrong in practice rather than in the original paper. Covers VO₂max and race prediction, and reviews the guides for whether a reader with a watch and a track could genuinely follow them.
15 written · 11 reviewedNo letters after the names
Nobody on this page is described as a doctor, dietitian or physiologist, because none of them is writing here in that capacity. Where a piece needs clinical judgement it says so and points you at someone who can give it. Nothing on this site is medical advice or personalised to you.