Landon Evans

A hacker at heart who builds things. VP Research & Education, Keiser. Analog Sport. RD. Appreciate great coffee, analog tools, & time in the dirt.

[Landon Evans @LandonCEvans]

@OSPpatrick Congrats, Patrick! Well deserved.

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@hjluks Searchable as in using spotlight? If so, have you tried rebuilding your spotlight index?

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@MattSinisc75247 Hi Matt. DM me.

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Day 3 of 7: I nominate @andrew_althoff "7 days, 7 books, no explanation."

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@spikesonly 100%. Can be a trap.

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@andrew_flatt Same, but our Halloween candy is having a hard time staying in the bowl!

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@spikesonly This again? This brief, transient exposure would likely have negligible impact on the results.

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@spikesonly GPP is the glue

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@andrew_flatt @Alan_Couzens Yup! The sentiment echoes across many endeavors, like enhancing nutritional understanding through tracking.

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@andrew_flatt Remember moons ago when Charlie Francis talked about this. Love to see joint variability and torque-time measurements and their respective recovery time-course with this group vs other positions.

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@andrew_flatt Hierarchical adaptive systems. Imagine if we were consciously in charge where energy went?

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@Alan_Couzens And despite deeper comprehension of physiological systems and the numerous obstacles that hinder our decision-making, it’s peculiar that in 2023, we still encounter significant resistance to this.

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Brendan, thank you for sharing. We may not have been flawless, but we remained committed to enhancing the overall process. This was made possible primarily because of dedicated student-athletes like yourself.

[Brendan Thompson, PT, DPT @BrendanThompsn]

Collaboration can be powerful when done the right way —

How do I know?

I’ve seen and experienced world class collaboration as an athlete at @IowaXC_TF :

Sport Coach 🤝 S&C 🤝 Medical 🤝 Other Support Staff

Each professional embraces their role in the system, understands their own strengths and weaknesses, and work together collaboratively to foster elite athlete outcomes and have done so for more than a decade.

Watching @Woody400h, @JNIGHT400, @LandonCEvans, Terry Noonan, and others work together on this front on a consistent basis was incredible to witness and experience as an athlete and aspiring health & performance professional. It was a masterful symphony of science, art, theory, application of knowledge and experience, and weaving that all together that made high performance achievable. No matter the outcome, they would continue to work together to refine their training processes with us athletes in mind. This level of communication and professional brainstorming can be uncomfortable for some, but fosters growth in all parties when done successfully.

There are some good attempts around the industry at simulating a similar high performance ecosystem… however… most programs miss the boat by getting territorial, letting egos get involved, and overestimating the value one can provide on their own while underestimating or downplaying the value other specialists / disciplines bring to the table.

Collaboration is important in not only providing a more holistic developmental trajectory for the athlete, but for offloading the stress of each specialist involved in the process. True inter-professional collaboration frees up bandwidth for each person involved and allows them to focus on what they’re really good at in concert with other professionals doing what they’re really good at in the context of each athlete’s program and progression.

This creates an ecosystem that is athlete centric and allows professionals to raise the ceiling on programming for performance, maintenance, rest, recovery, rehab, and development. The piece that makes all of this work though is communicating, setting egos aside, and each professional focusing on their own role within the framework of the entire system to benefit the program.

Looking at important checkpoints throughout the season and working backward to find a reasonable starting point to progress from week by week. Monitoring workloads, stress, and other important KPIs. Building a S&C program that complements those goals and progressions without overshooting in critical time periods, knowing when to get aggressive with weight training, when to pull back to facilitate recovery, and when to pivot to bounce back from a tough training block so as not to tip the scales unnecessarily toward injury.

If injuries pop up, having a collective effort that takes into account training room stresses, return to play efforts on the track & in the weight room, and how to adapt the original training framework without putting the athlete at excessive risk of re/injury are pivotal in a successful RTP progression.

Systems and programs structured in this way tend to thrive in the long term, even with the inevitable setbacks that an athlete or team might encounter. Having all hands on deck to address each facet of performance, progress, and more benefits the athlete in ways that one person can’t achieve alone.

If you’re struggling to adopt a high performance ecosystem and are having difficulty with inter-professional collaboration… try to lay egos aside and come together as a unit to write collective goals to benefit the athlete, program, and development in the short term and refine it together along the way to reap even greater benefits for years to come.

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@TenanATC @johnharry76 Inductive for the win. Hope you get a great turn out, Matt.

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@Alan_Couzens Last 4 weeks or so now been attempting to capture a near entirety of my DEVONthink database for this exact reason, but for purely selfish reasons.

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@scotmorrsn @OSPpatrick @CTsportsci Only reason I stay on twitter these days.

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@MoxyMonitor 401. Still works great.

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@GregLehman Haven’t done of these for years! But just did 3:07.

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@Alan_Couzens Alan, you may be my Colorado brother!

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@BrendanThompsn @TFConsortium And be ok when the piece no longer fits how it originally did.

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@Alan_Couzens @spikesonly @andrew_flatt @altini_marco Some work we got out into the public. https://t.co/C5zI7kLnG4 & https://t.co/YYgg3eLkJY