Michael Sweat

Director of Sports Performance St. Augustine HS

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

Had an interesting conversation with a high-level college 🏀 player.

After a grueling aerobic-based preseason, he was in the best shape of his life.

3 minutes into the first game, he felt out of shape.

Endurance work may not prepare us for game speed.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Shedeur Sanders was expected to be a first-round pick.
Instead, he slipped to the 5th.

Is it a failure, a reflection of the Deion show, a humbling...

There’s a deeper lesson here—one that speaks to adversity, resilience, parenting, and what real success actually looks like.

Let’s dig in.

[San Diego Football @Daygofootball]

Folks need to do their Homework.. The Saints had a drastic change over the offseason over 25 players transferred out and they brought in a new Coaching Staff they had to play their D1 Schedule because you cant just scratch your schedule clean every year if they would of had a D3/D4 Schedule and gone 0-10 no way they make the playoffs . D3 was not a cake walk for them they were in 3 Close game games and pulled out the victories .

[San Diego Football @Daygofootball]

Final : Saints 13 San Pasqual 7
Ron Caragher wins a Section Championship in his first season as Head Coach . The Saints become the first team in San Diego Section History to go winless in the regular season and win a CIF Championship their Second consecutive Section Championship.
#D3Finals

[Michael Sweat @msweatCSCS]

@CoachDHansen @Tony_Villani_ Depends on the angle of the COD.

[Gerry DeFilippo | Strength & Speed @Challenger_ST]

Athletes, please STOP training like bodybuilders/powerlifters

That is, stop structuring training around:

- “back day.”
- “Squats today.”
- “Monday is chest.”

Build your training around motor unit recruitment.

Design it around outputs & adaptions like speed, power & strength

[Jimmy Mackey @thejimmymackey]

This is the single most powerful (and misunderstood) supplement.

It's dirt cheap, scientifically proven, and can transform your brain function.

Here's what 99% of people get wrong about it:

[Wendi A. Irlbeck MS, RDN, LD, CISSN @Wendi_Irlbeck]

Elite student-athletes:

⚡️Show up early & stay late

⚡️Are coachable & remain coachable no matter the situation

⚡️Work hard, stay humble, & help their teammates

⚡️Disciplined in their studies and their sport

⚡️Own up to mistakes & accept constructive criticism

⚡️Eat well on rest days & never miss meals in training or competition days

⚡️Never make excuses or blame others for their actions

⚡️Drink water and hydrate instead of using sugary energy drinks

⚡️Show up to class & get respectable grades because sports come second to their studies

⚡️Trust their coaches and leadership to lead them to victory

[Max Schmarzo (sbs) @strong_science]

It’s not the discipline or commitment that’s difficult. It’s not knowing if your discipline or commitment will result in anything. Not all hard work ends with a reward. That’s just life. But if you don’t work, it for sure won’t work.

[Gerry DeFilippo | Strength & Speed @Challenger_ST]

Hard to stay healthy as an athlete if all these things are happening

[Pratik Patel @PratikxPatel]

If you are cramping regularly then stop loading yourself with just

-Water
-Sports drinks
-Electrolytes ad nauseam

and start looking at

-Carbohydrate intake
-Medications (esp adderall, SSRIs)
-Magnesium/Potassium/Calcium intake, relative to Sodium
-Fitness levels/workload
-Sleep
-EtOH

Fatigue is a big reason for cramping (look deeper)

[Gerry DeFilippo | Strength & Speed @Challenger_ST]

Average athletes will spend thousands on combines, camps & showcases

They’ll go, not get any benefit (because they’re average) & keep spending money

All instead of investing (less money) in quality training to improve

The vicious cycle of mediocrity goes round & round

[Conor Harris @Conor_Harris_]

Most people should be able to get into a deep squat.

But sedentary lifestyles and constant sitting has limited our ability to access full hip mobility.

Here’s the most common reasons why you can’t squat deep + how to improve it.

[Brandon Davis, CSCS @Brandon_L_Davis]

It’s far easier to get a 9th grader strong that spent middle school developing coordination in different contexts than it is to get a strong 9th grader to move well.

A made that mistake early.

[Chris Boettcher @chrisboettcher9]

10 habits you're probably doing every day that damage your health:

• Sitting all day
• Mouthbreathing
• Drinking calories
• Drinks with dinner
• Blue light near bed
• Always being online
• Caffeine before water
• Screenlight before sunlight
• Refined carbs for breakfast

[Gerry DeFilippo | Strength & Speed @Challenger_ST]

BS coaches have athletes do to just take up time

1. Ladder drills
2. Burpees
3. Wall sits
4. Crunches or ab variations
5. Gassers
6. Endless hurdle hops

If you see practices or sessions mostly made of these, you have coach who has zero idea what they’re doing

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

Love the “twitchy-ness” of short prime times done right. #CNS

[Pratik Patel @PratikxPatel]

5 pushups are better than no pushups
A 10 min walk is better than no walking
A short workout is better than no workout

Start small
Progress appropriately
Maintain consistency
Win

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

Any sprint coach who dismisses the importance of arm action in sprinting has never worked with kids new to sprinting.

Their elbows stay bent, they swing their elbows wide, and their hands never cross their hips.

If range of motion is limited, there’s no stretch reflex.

[Pratik Patel @PratikxPatel]

No
You’re NOT eating nearly enough PROTEIN and it’s killing you

This trash article (riddled with false info) cites 50 gRaMs as the average threshold based on the RDA for protein (0.8g/kg) which is MUCH TOO LOW

One of the biggest culprits of poor health status of Americans/humans around the world is due to EXCESSIVE carb + fat intake (too much hyper palatable /UPFs) and LOW protein intake