Jack Louis Noonan
Founder of Train Smart. Jack builds the app and compiles the training, nutrition and injury-prevention guidance on this site from published research and sporting governing-body guidance.
Compiled, sourced, and checked
The guidance on this site is a summary of what the published research and the sporting bodies say — not a personal training philosophy, and not opinion presented as fact.
- Every health claim is cited
- Each calorie equation, heart-rate zone, load threshold and injury-prevention protocol is listed against the source it rests on — 44 of them, on the sources page. The claim against each is the specific thing the app does with it, so it can be checked and disagreed with.
- Sources are verified, not recalled
- Every reference is checked against the source’s own record. Two identifiers in an early draft pointed at unrelated papers; that is what verification exists to catch.
- Numbers are labelled for what they are
- Benchmark tables are marked indicative. Where no defensible published range exists, the page says so instead of printing a plausible-looking table.
- Facts about pathways are dated
- Competition names, age groups and zones are checked against the governing bodies and dated, because they change between seasons.
- Nothing is invented to persuade
- No testimonials, user counts, star ratings or endorsements appear anywhere on this site.
Training information, not a clinician
This is general training information for healthy adults. It is not medical, physiotherapy or dietetic advice, and nothing on this site can examine you, see your technique or assess an injury.
For a current injury, a medical condition, a return-to-sport decision, or any doubt about whether something is right for you, see a physiotherapist, a doctor or an accredited sports dietitian. The pages where that matters say so where it matters.
If something here is wrong
A fact, a source, a club’s home ground, a competition that changed its name — email jack@trainsmartt.com and say which page. Corrections are made on the page itself, and the page’s “Updated” date moves with them.