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

Louis
Dallimore.

Strength & conditioning coach. Sixteen years in pro sport. 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 program.

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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Countries · AUS · JPN · KSA
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Sports & disciplines
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Lead-author study, world-first
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No. 04
Modelling Accumulated Load, Lag, and Soft-Tissue Injury Risk
Twelve of seventeen hamstring injuries across two seasons were flagged inside the prior fortnight by counting six simple training markers. The model, the checks that broke earlier versions of it, and the board and planner that came out the other side.
12 min
Aug 2026
No. 03
How We Trained: A Year of Periodisation in Pro Rugby
The training program behind the closing-twenty number. Annual periodisation, weekly volumes, position-group splits, and the match-pace tagging that benchmarked every full-squad session against game intensity.
10 min
Apr 2026
No. 02
The Closing Twenty
Across 56 Division 2 matches in 2025, five of eight clubs lost the closing twenty minutes on points. Kintetsu's net was +8.1 points per match, the largest in the league. A descriptive look at the pattern, points only.
5 min
Apr 2026
No. 01
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
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Rugby Moneyball
Match win probability · player profile · in-browser
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Western Force·Surfing Western Australia·Australian Paralympic Powerlifting·Kintetsu Liners·Hockey Australia·Saudi Olympic Program
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If you're building something serious, I'd like to hear about it.

I take enquiries from program directors, head coaches, federations and (occasionally) private athletes. Replies within five working days.

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