🏟️🎙️ Dr. Marcus Elliott, Founder of the Peak Performance Project (P3) | S2 E6
The Science Behind The World's Most Elite Athletes
The following is from our colleague Brent Peus’s podcast,
. Brent sat down with Dr. Marcus Elliott, the Founder & Director of the Peak Performance Project (P3). As arguably the top sport scientist in the country, Marcus’s data-driven approach to injury prevention and athletic optimization falls squarely in to our “Moneyballing Everything” megatrend. Remember, Data is the new oil…Sports are serious business.
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The Connection:
I first met Marcus nearly 15 years ago when I first showed up at the P3 facility in Santa Barbara to train with the amateur group. I trained at P3 throughout high school, where I not only developed as an athlete but also had the privilege of seeing first-hand how professional athletes work. People like Vince Carter, Joakim Noah, James Harden, Dwight Howard, Andrew Wiggins, and Aaron Gordon were regulars in the facility. During my final year of training, Marcus was kind enough to write me a letter of recommendation to Stanford.
Quote of the Episode:
“We identify a lot of things that traditionally people have said, ‘You just can’t teach that. He was born with that.’ Because they can’t see the physics . . . We assessed Luka Doncic when he was 15 years old.
. . . When he was going into the league, NBA GMs were suggesting he wasn’t athletic enough to go play with these guys . . . because he doesn’t jump high and he doesn’t run fast. But, he did some things better than almost any NBA player we’ve ever assessed—when he was still in high school.”
Bet You Didn’t Know:
70% of all rostered players in the NBA have been assessed at P3.
3-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic had the worst vertical jump of any player they had ever assessed—17 inches. Marcus’s 15 year-old daughter jumped higher during her first assessment.
Marcus Elliott is the Founder & Director of the Peak Performance Project (P3).
Dr. Elliott is a Harvard trained physician specializing in performance enhancement and the development of elite athletes. As Founder and Director of P3, he is dedicated to applying cutting edge science for optimal athletic achievement. He has trained some of the world’s best athletes including those at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, the Australian Institute of Sport, and the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. Since 1998, Dr. Elliott’s primary focus has been on peak performance and injury prevention in U.S. professional power-based sports, including baseball, basketball, football, and soccer. Recently, Dr. Elliott was appointed the 12th Annual Augustus Thorndike Lecturer at Harvard Medical School for his pioneering work in sports science. As the 2019 Thorndike professor, he joins a handful of other luminaries in sports medicine, including Dr. James R. Andrews (2012), Dr. Neal S. ElAttrache (2014), Dr. David W. Altcheck (2016).
Starting in 1999 and continuing through their Super Bowl drive, Dr. Elliott was the physiologist and injury prevention specialist to the NFL’s New England Patriots. He was widely credited with reducing muscle injuries in the Patriots and has completed NFL sponsored research leading to recommendations on optimal conditioning and injury prevention strategies. He is also a sports science consultant for a number of professional organizations, and was Major League Baseball’s first-ever Director of Sports Science and Performance with the Seattle Mariners.
Dr. Elliott is an internationally renowned leader in the field of sports science, a highly acclaimed speaker and serves on several boards in the sports and performance nutrition fields. He resides in Santa Barbara with his wife Nadine and three children.
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