Joe D'Amato

Chicago White Sox Sports Science Coordinator PhD, CSCS, USAW-L1.

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

“You think to yourself that that person is the strong one. If he has time to ask me what’s going on with me, then surely he’s okay. But I’m old enough to know now that the strongest of us fight the biggest and the baddest and the most relentless demons.”

[Ryan Clark @Realrclark25]

3 Questions…

“You good?, You ok? Do you need anything?”

Those 3 questions haunt me. They’re the 3 questions Naeshell asked me the day before he took his own life. What I regret most is not asking him those same 3 questions after he asked me.

@thepivot

https://t.co/2yfN7OqCUC

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

For an organization, group, department, etc. to drive progress and innovation, no idea or hypothesis should be above respectful scrutiny/testing and discourse.

“Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.”

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@ppeterson_ Oh yeah. And to your point, desktop I built was like 1k less than my work laptop but is the equivalent of a Formula F1 while my work laptop is a moped

[Fernando Pareja @fparejablanco]

Published today in @IJSPPjournal along with my great friends @IrineuLoturco and @lucasa_pereira (open access): a well - deserved tribute to the brilliant and visionary Juan José González- Badillo , the pioneer of velocity - based training ( VBT ) . We discuss the velocity zones

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@tannerball Congratulations Tanner. Happy to see your continued success!

[TheTinMen @TheTinMenBlog]

When we say "we need male role models for boys", we don't mean some millionaire celebrity actor, podcast bro, or politically sanitised version of masculinity...

We mean teachers, dads, sports coaches, grandfathers, or just normal kind men.

We mean this –

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

This is what a first principles perspective entails when it comes to training and programming/exercise selection.

[Dan Cleather | Strength and Conditioning @dr_jump_uk]

Myths of S&C: Part 4

Power cleans are not the same as jump squats

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@Results_Period @RiccardoRambo @ADRCoachDev Yep. Real development just isn’t sexy.

The way I describe it to athletes is “when a hurricane arrives, would you rather have a house on the hill made of stone or the flashy McMansion on the beach.”

I personally would prefer the tested stone house and develop with a plan

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@Results_Period @RiccardoRambo @ADRCoachDev The movement away from first principles to simply sets and reps goes along with the outcomes vs process issue.

If periodization is dead, you don’t need to understand physiology and how to train for development. You can just do stuff and be justified

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@Results_Period @RiccardoRambo @ADRCoachDev Part of it is the proliferation of misconceptions regarding periodization by those saying “it’s dead” or “it doesn’t exist.” Creates an outcomes vs process problem.

[Peter Weyand @Dr_Weyand]

Basic difficulties with Force-Velocity-Power method for sprint acceleration include: 1) most of the ground force applied is ignored, 2) speed can increase when power decreases, 3) the F-V relation presented for running is opposite the simultaneous F-V activity in the muscles.

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@SamLBecker25 @clh_strength No. None of them come into the course with any background, all sports science students. I teach them how to install R and R Studio. That’s why it’s a basic course and nothing fancy

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@SamLBecker25 @clh_strength But yes, mostly csv based. I’d like to get into database querying and API’s, things sports science use frequently, but that takes a fair amount of time, skill, education and desire to get there

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@SamLBecker25 @clh_strength I use R. Cleaning, wrangling, and statistics.

Basic tools in R for sports science, outside of shiny apps, building API’s, and querying db’s.

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@SamLBecker25 @clh_strength I tell students not to rely on it for coding without understanding coding first. When it makes a mistake or misses nuance, you’ll have to correct it or make the adjustment yourself, even with good prompts.

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@spikesonly @sprintcoachSWE S&C ain’t ready for that conversation.

[Dr. Gerard McMahon @MuscleMechsLab]

I think this is what leads to a huge amount of confusion- practitioners don't seem to be able to discriminate external load-velocity/force- velocity r'ships & internal neuro-muscle-tendon functions. They're not 'surfing' any curves!

[Joe D'Amato @JoeD_Strength]

@RiccardoRambo @MarkBennett07 If you have any notes you’re willing to share, or even sources I can access from them, I’d be highly interested in them