Ep48 - Jesse Green Stumbles - "I forgot to deload..."

About this episode

Jesse Green discusses key mistakes in his sports science career and the lessons learned from them.

In this stumbles episode of Performance Strategies and Stumbles, I'm joined again by Jesse Green — a sports scientist whose career has taken him from Australian rules football academies to the NBA and NHL — to explore the mistakes and learning experiences that have shaped how he operates as a practitioner. This isn't a conversation about failure for its own sake. It's about what happens when you're willing to look honestly at the moments that didn't go to plan — and use them as a reference point for how you develop. Jesse covers three distinct stumbles across different stages of his career, each one revealing something important about programming, bias, and how we manage the people around us. The first takes us back to his early days working with the Brisbane Lions Academy, where a lack of deloading before a key fitness test meant that months of solid conditioning work didn't show up in the results. It's a story about assumptions, the pressure of performance KPIs, and the cost of not asking for help when you need it. The second moves to his time at the Sacramento Kings, where a recency bias towards heavy bilateral loading — driven by research he'd been reading — led to a…

People in this episode

Host: Dan Howells

Guest: Jesse Green

Topics covered

• sports science
• performance mistakes
• athlete management
• programming
• bias in sports

Keywords

• deloading
• performance KPIs
• recency bias
• back spasm
• middle management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Brisbane Lions Academy, Sacramento Kings, NBA, NHL

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