Louis Dallimore //Strength & Conditioning
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Louis Dallimore coaching at Kintetsu Liners

Strength,
as evidence.
Performance,
as practice.

Strength & conditioning coach. Sixteen years in pro sport, working with World Cup winners, Olympic and Paralympic medalists, and world record holders. Western Force (Super Rugby), Surfing Western Australia, Australian Paralympic powerlifting; ten seasons Head of Performance at Kintetsu Liners (Japan League One) working with internationals including Quade Cooper and Will Genia; Hockey Australia in 2025; now lead strength & conditioning for the Saudi Olympic programme.

This site is a working journal. Long-form essays on programming, GPS, return-to-play and applied ML, with case studies and original analysis. Co-founder of PRE-SZN (pre-szn.com), a strength and conditioning app built for elite athletes. Hard training and hard work, sharpened with data.

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Years in pro sport
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Seasons Head of Performance, Kintetsu Liners
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Undefeated seasons · 2019, 2021
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Players in squad managed
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Lead-author study, world-first
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Kintetsu Moneyball
Hanazono Liners · 近鉄ライナーズ · Japan League One · 10 seasons

Ten seasons as Head of Performance. Squad of 63. Two undefeated seasons. 90%+ availability. The methodology, the staff, the GPS architecture, the lead-author publication.

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Match Output × S&C Testing
Lead author · Journal of Australian Strength & Conditioning · 29(6), 2021 · world-first
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More case studies in production. Western Force, Paralympic powerlifting, Saudi Olympic programme — to follow.
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No. 04
Rugby Moneyball: Predicting Wins With Machine Learning
The same Kintetsu 2025 dataset run through logistic regression and a random forest. The model surfaced something the pairwise analysis missed, and was honestly worse than the naive baseline on accuracy. Both findings matter.
8 min
Apr 2026
No. 03
Rugby Moneyball: The Metrics That Actually Predict Wins
Across 14 matches with the Kintetsu Liners in 2025, the things I had been told to coach harder weren’t the things that decided games. Discipline, turnover security, and conversion efficiency. Possession is not on the list.
8 min
Apr 2026
No. 02
The Height Advantage
Sixty years of research on rugby player anthropometry, one season of Japan League One data, and the question of whether height still matters at the elite level once everyone is big enough.
12 min
Aug 2025
No. 01
Using a Daily Maximum for Autoregulation
Velocity-based training, daily maximums, and a way to manage week-to-week loading without testing 1RMs that wreck your athletes.
7 min
Jul 2021
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No.Tenet
I.

The plan is the argument

A programme should make a claim about the athlete in front of you. What they need, where they are, what eight weeks of work is supposed to produce. If you can't state the claim out loud, the programme isn't ready to write.

II.

Data is a lantern, not a map

GPS, force plates and VBT illuminate what you already half-suspected. The coach's eye still draws the route.

III.

Robust beats clever

An athlete who can train every week, every block, every season is worth more than the one who peaks twice and breaks. Fit, durable, available, in that order.

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“I make robust, fit athletes. The data is there to sharpen the work, not replace it.”
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Western Force·Surfing Western Australia·Australian Paralympic Powerlifting·Kintetsu Liners·Hockey Australia·Saudi Olympic Programme
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