Board Member Profile: Logan Byman

Performance Specialist with EXOS

Logan Byman currently serves as a Performance Specialist with EXOS. With strength and conditioning certifications from the National Strength and Conditioning Association and the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, Logan provides a unique and hands-on perspective to the board. He completed his Master’s Degree in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology at the University of Florida. Logan graduated from North Carolina State University in 2013, where he wrestled and earned a bachelor's degree in sport management. 

We talked to Logan about his perspective on the Tactical Athlete Leadership Board. Here is what he had to say: 

(TA-LB): The themes of the Tactical Athlete Leadership Board are Readiness, Resilience, and Recovery. From your perspective, why are these themes essential, and what about them resonates with your experience in the human performance industry? 

(Logan): Readiness, Resilience, and Recovery are the cornerstones in any human performance continuum. Understanding, implementing, and leveraging these themes allow athletes in any field to express the best version of themselves with their performance, which is the goal of any human performance program at the end of the day.

(TA-LB): Looking to the future, what technological innovation do you think will have the most significant impact on tactical athletes? 

(Logan) The most impactful technological advances will allow us to understand how training inputs directly affect performance outputs. The ability to better tailor and understand training stimulus and its effectiveness provides more significant benefits to performance and success.

(TA-LB): The spirit of the TALB is to bring a diverse set of perspectives to the table aligned toward a singular purpose: to sustain the tactical athlete of today and preparing for the tactical athlete of tomorrow. Why is it essential for the broader human performance industry to work together towards this end? 

(Logan): As a human performance industry, we are all in the fight together. All of us are striving to cohesively unite knowledge, technology, and application to maximize the time and output of our athletes. We must use what we know today best to prepare the athletes in front of us, and paramount that we continue to grow, learn and improve to better prepare the athletes that will come in the future.

(TA-LB): What is the greatest challenge to innovation in the human performance sector?

(Logan): The communication and collaboration of coaches with different backgrounds and specialties are critical for the long-term development of the human performance sector. The faster and more effectively we can share ideas, the quicker we will develop solutions to problems. The more people within this fieldwork together, the faster it will grow and advance.