🗣️“Weak things break” - Louie Simmons
Lower back pain and injuries are common.
Yet people are often afraid to train the lower back.
🤙🏼In my experience, if you want a healthy lower back, you need to train it to make it strong and resilient.
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If your athletes are truly working hard, your plan has to be equally intentional.
🗣️“Doesn’t matter what you pick, as long as you work.”
🤷🏼♂️That only feels true when the effort is low enough that training can be random and still produce something.
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My favourite methods to improve performance before a game 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 (𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘) or before a workout (PAP).
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Progressive overload is treated as a foundation of muscle growth, but this study asks whether it is truly required or simply better.
↗️Progressive overload is one of the most familiar principles in resistance training.
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How the weight plates hang lower than the bar’s contact point on the back that will shifts the center of gravity downward, wish will help the hinge movement compared to a Barbell.
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📖 A recent paper — The Perceived Demands of Ice Hockey Goaltending — explored how elite goalies and coaches perceive hip & groin stress across common movements.
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👀After years in exercise physiology research and tactical strength & conditioning, I’ve noticed a recurring bias in our field:
Many coaches who come from a strength background tend to view strength reserve as the primary driver of athletic performance.
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📉Poorly planned training is always visible. It may not show up immediately, but it eventually appears in fatigue, soft tissue issues, poor readiness, inconsistent performance, and athletes who are working hard without being properly prepared.
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📚 In this study, participants performed velocity-based training on the bench press for eight weeks across various combinations of intensity and proximity to failure.
https://t.co/qH4JgPzm1D
👌🏻Assault bike conditioning is a one of my preferred training tool for conditioning because it simulates the high-intensity, intermittent demands of a game while allowing for high-volume training with minimal joint stress.
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⚖️ Accurate assessment of resting metabolic rate and body composition are important for determining baseline dietary needs, understanding body composition changes, and more.
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🧐Jump height is easy to understand, but it may not tell you what is actually happening neuromuscularly.
📖 This paper is helpful because it gets at a simple but important monitoring problem:
https://t.co/phC9L6yBsX