Dylan Ooi

“Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him. “ - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I first met Josie back in 2018 at a @UKSportsInst profiling event. An approachable, self-driven, and inspiring individual, to say the least, impressions I'm sure she's also left on those whom she's crossed paths with. Highly recommended.

It would be tough to find a bigger proponent of HRV tracking than me. Here’s my response to “Why does someone need to track their HRV?”.

Data should inform decisions, not dictate them. Sometimes it’s just about paying close attention, managing, and making it through. Fin/

The Result? Completion. As you can see, I was not recovering even up till the last day on 14 Oct. But aside from general fatigue, I made all surf sessions without illness or injury and still had a blast. 7/

Resting Heart Rate & HRV: A Short Case Study. Believe it or not, surfing is physically taxing. Here’s a snapshot of my physiological status during the past October Surf Camp. 1/

@HowellsDan @TeamGB Performance.

High Performance Planning 📈and a free EBook! This picture represents one of the most high performance strategies I’ve been a part of with @teamgb and the rugby 7s squads. Both in 2016 where we won 🥈 and the 2020 campaign, had one common problem to solve. ➡️Bringing together players from different nations to gel and play at an optimum level over 12 weeks (Rio prep) or 5months (Tokyo prep) The physical preparation was very different for both these campaigns, with different strategies required because the game was different and the players too. What you may be surprised to here is we didn’t fitness test once in the lead up to Tokyo. But we had a specific reason for why. In the 2016 prep we had 34players to choose from, and in 2021 we had 24. Therefore maximising player availability and balancing that against functional overreaching and rotation of players in training looked very different. The way I problem solved and the questions I asked throughout didn’t change though. We needed to know what success looked like at key times: ✅ in competition ✅ in travel ✅ in training We also needed to know the plan, and how we would prepare to adapt it There was also a conscious effort to connect our high performance decisions to a greater purpose as part of a wider @teamgb team - creating relatedness in everything we did. If you’d like to read more about the 10 key principles I use in performance planning, comment “performance” by replying below and I’ll send you a link to a free ebook detailing each principle. 👍🙌🏉

What does a successful training session look like to me? √ Athlete check in √ Program priorities √ Education √ Timing

Time spent revisiting the basics is never time wasted.

“I’m going to stop working with my nutritionist” “Why?” “She wants me to try a lot of different things and it’s too overwhelming. I realised after 4 weeks that I’ve not even opened the nutrition plan.” Less is more. A simple plan > A sophisticated one.

Only novices give 100% at everything.

I consider running to be one of the fundamental movement skills alongside squatting, hinging, lunging etc. Humans were born to run, after all.

Coaching is an ongoing guessing game. You’re just trying to make better guesses over time through information.

Science is not a subject, but rather, a thought process.

@HowellsDan Interesting how different cues work at different times, all w/ a limited shelf life, even when it comes to coaching yourself. Been cycling through a few for Accel: • Jump • Punch • Fling / Throw • Rip

@Dylan_OKS fling to win

Sometimes you just have to fling yourself forward.