🚨 Biomechanical & neuromuscular performance requirements of horizontal deceleration… 📌 High Impact Forces ⚡️ (2.7 x ⬆️ than acceleration) 📌 Braking for Rapid COD 🔑 📌 High Eccentric Muscle Forces 🟰 Risk of Damage 📌 Braking Kinematics 🦵 🔐 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Too many coaches cue the athlete to look down during acceleration to enhance lean. This is a mistake. Eyes should point where the sternum points. Spine position should stay relatively constant throughout the sprint.

BREAKING🚨😝New RCT by Tundidor-Duque et al “Velocity Loss During Resistance Training: Implications for Concurrent Training Adaptations” in #SJMSS pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41855389/

For tendon stiffness adaptation, contraction type doesn’t matter. Loading magnitude does. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27747846/

The hard part of programming was never exercise selection. The hard part is understanding why something is there, where it fits, how much of it to use, and how the whole week needs to be structured so you’re building preparation and tolerance without blunting the very

Patellar tendon biopsy study Unilateral tendon pain = Bilateral structural change pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41869870/

"The best coach in the world will make no difference unless the Athlete makes the commitment to improve (change)." Ralph Mann

I’ve started a Substack. It’s a place where I’ll be writing more regularly about training theory, physiology, skill acquisition, and the messy middle between science and coaching practice. The first post is now live: “Thresholds, domains, and the confusion around vV̇O2max/MAS

Dysfunction in groups is driven by the combination of ego and emotion

⚽📊 The Assessment, Management and Prevention of Calf Muscle Strain Injuries: A Qualitative Study of the Practices and Perspectives of 20 Expert Sports Clinicians pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35032233/

RTP is essentially the management of an athlete’s transition from a state of "allostatic overload" (injury) back to a state of "optimal predictive fluctuation"

A major hurdle in long-term knee rehab is a dysfunctional internal focus. Athletes become hyperaware of the injury, which can lead to "choking" and rigid movements. This is countered by using analogies, and focusing on external effects rather than their own body mechanics

Human beings are brutally efficient learners. A movement solution is not created from nothing; it emerges spontaneously from the interaction between the task, environment and individual.

“Skilled athletes look at fewer things for longer compared to lesser athletes, whose eyes are busier…” teachlikeachampion.org/blog/coaching-…

Coaching is not building a house from the ground up; it is a renovation built on the athlete's existing perceptual-motor landscape. You observe if they accept affordances, and step in to safely guide the search.

Soleus needs heavy load. From the podcast with Seth O’Neill: "For most steps when you're jogging, you're probably looking at about 7-8 times body weight at most speeds in steady state running. If you then accelerate, the soles will get about 10 times body weight... this is

Tendon pain typically improves long before structure improves. Study: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27136287/

46 years ago Today, Terry Fox, a 21-year-old Canadian who lost a leg to cancer, began his Marathon of Hope—a cross-country run to raise funds and awareness for cancer research He ran 5,373 km in 143 days before cancer forced him to end his bold journey.

Drill Design: Deconstructing a skill into sterile, isolated parts strips away the affordances. If the perceptual information is fake, the movement solution will be fake.

Adding a forward lean to foot exercises can increase muscle activation and joint torque🦶 A new study from Osborne et al. (2025) examined intrinsic and extrinsic muscle activity and MTP joint torque during common foot exercises. Traditional toe-based exercises did recruit the