Fionn MacPartlin

[Fionn MacPartlin @fionnmac]

We’re hiring! Strength & Conditioning Coach at the Red Bull Athlete Performance Centre

We’re looking for a curious and collaborative S&C coach to join the team in accelerating athlete performance at the Red Bull APC in Santa Monica!

https://t.co/47CmEB6fcd

[the strength report @ActivateGlutes]

Superficial muscles contemplate strike action!
Tired of doing almost all of the work involved in trunk movements, the union of superficial trunk muscles have threatened strike action just before pre-season training is about to start. 1/n

[Fionn MacPartlin @fionnmac]

@SportsmithHQ @CFaulkner1993 Nice work Charlie 👏🏼

[Tyler Collings @TylerCollings3]

Changing from one exercise to another has a massive effect on individual muscle force contribution. When changing up a resistance program, how do you know whether you are progressing or regressing the mechanical stimulus? 👀 👇

[Cathal Dennehy @Cathal_Dennehy]

Superb commentary here by @gregallenRTE - absolutely nailed it

https://t.co/nmEpWUoMX6

[Dario Cazzola @darione581]

PhD studentships #sport #computational #biomechanics #ML @UniofBath: Individual Subject-Specific Musculoskeletal Modelling in #Baseball Pitching - https://t.co/tGwOLxcBgi. Funded by @Reds. ✅ Students Worldwide. 4th Dec deadline. 🧑‍🏫Me & @Modenaxe & @releasethegecko @FrankyMulloy

[Fionn MacPartlin @fionnmac]

@FrankDevereux @PEAI_IRELAND @SETU_CWScience Great work Frank 🙌🏼

[Fionn MacPartlin @fionnmac]

It’s I think much like all education, it’s about commitment as opposed to how clever or not clever you are”. https://t.co/F3qdhMM0Wy

[Fionn MacPartlin @fionnmac]

“I never forget seeing Pat read the same paper five or six times. [He’s] perhaps one of the brightest people I’ve certainly ever met and if he had to read four or five times, I think it legitimizes all of us having to do that at some stage.

[Samuele Marcora @SamueleMarcora]

Great opportunity to share ideas with leading scientists and practitioners at this event organised by @redbull Athletes Performance Centre (APC) https://t.co/Id2egpUckB

[292 Performance @292Performance]

New website launch 💥

Come and say hello and see what we do at @292Performance

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[Alen Hajnal @alen_hajnal]

RIP, Michael Turvey. What better way to pay tribute to him than to listen to his lecture: https://t.co/aW8Zv4cWeY

[Eamonn Flanagan @EamonnFlanagan]

Following the reference trail can be a good way to establish the empirical strength of certain recommendations within "strength science".

Take the Dynamic Strength Index (or Dynamic Strength Deficit)….

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[Fionn MacPartlin @fionnmac]

@david_m_dunne @MurphRC @DKieranCollins @NBA @hexis_live Great stuff David, congrats!

[Matt Archer @Mja20004M]

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[john kiely @simplysportssci]

The Coach of the Worlds No. 1 female triathlete

An exercise physiologist & current AG World Champion

An experienced team manager, coach, S&C, International athlete AND Marathon des Sables finisher

All sharing their experiences Friday 16th @UL

https://t.co/9LDH3XkAHX

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On January 7, 1969, The Beatles got together at a barren cavernous studio in London.

The deadline for their 12th studio album, Let It Be, was fast approaching.

And in a matter of minutes, Paul McCartney improvises and creates one of The Beatles all-time classic songs, Get Back:

This is one of the greatest “fly on the wall” glimpses of the creative process I've seen.

Takeaway 1:

In the clip, we see Paul McCartney’s creativity steadily increase.

There’s a scientific explanation for this.

Dr. Andrew Huberman talks about how the brain circuits involved in creativity take time to turn on. In fact, brain circuits related to stress and agitation turn on first.

I've heard him use 3 analogies to explain this.

1) It’s like swimming in the ocean—you have to wade through some seaweed and other muck to get to the clear water.

2) It’s like trying to lift your max on the bench press—it takes time to work up to that weight.

3) It’s like your best creative work is on the other side of a door at the top of a staircase—it takes time and effort to get up the stairs and through that door.

In other words, Dr. Huberman says, you become more creative the more you create.

Takeaway 2:

In many interviews, I’ve heard McCartney talk about his songwriting process and how The Beatles used time as a filter for what songs made it onto an album.

When The Beatles were starting out, McCartney explains, “there was no recording devices…There was no such thing as cassettes or anything to put the idea down on, so you just had to remember.”

He said they began to realize this was actually a good thing.

“We said, ‘if we forget it tomorrow, it’s no good.’ How can we expect the public to remember it if we can’t, and we only wrote it yesterday?

So we realized that we were writing songs that were memorable not because we wanted them to be memorable, but because we had to remember them.”

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Similar to the way, in the clip, McCartney sort of mumbles and blurts out words and sounds, and then eventually, “Get Back” emerges, John Legend says:

“Most of my songs start with a ‘mumble track.’ It’s just me humming and mumbling nonsense. And then the mumbles start to suggest different tones and rhythms, and then eventually, the lyrics emerge.”

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[Fionn MacPartlin @fionnmac]

@colingriffin @TaijaFinni @PaulineGerus @AlexandreRambau @jb_morin @nwconditioning @SSCSantry @Univ_CotedAzur @eur_healthy Well done Colin, great work which many have benefited from 👏🏼

[Fionn MacPartlin @fionnmac]

@MaloneyPerform @resolveperf @SpeedworksBath @collab_sports @PfaffSC @KenClarkSpeed @MuscleScience @vlsprofeta I think probably v important to skilled movements like kicking where energy is transferred across a tension arc and in fast/rhythmic movements where passive self-stabilisation is important.

[Fionn MacPartlin @fionnmac]

@MaloneyPerform @resolveperf @SpeedworksBath @collab_sports @PfaffSC @KenClarkSpeed @MuscleScience I’d agree that all modalities can augment stiffness. Another perspective on passive stiffness is the passive tension @vlsprofeta & Turvey discuss here https://t.co/bbhEHGDHwx