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“We’re actually going to go into the bathroom, of all places,” said Geoff Head, the Giants sports science specialist.
It’s almost five hours before the first pitch at AT&T Park last September, so we’re free to barge unannounced into the Giants’ clubhouse restroom. The players have yet to trickle in.
Head selected this lonely hour to provide an extended look at a largely unknown part of the Giants’ late-season success. Now in its third full season, the sports science program takes a high-tech approach to assessing health and fitness by looking at what Head calls “the physiological biomarkers of fatigue and performance.