Overcoming inertia matters, and peak force is a main driver. Don’t bother chasing RFD or MCV if your pool of strength is mediocre. Sprinting is a massive neurological injection, skip the unnecessary speed lifts, pretend surfing the curve, grinding -and commit to what works.

Not critique just questions: 1. Why is the solution, at least in part, more specific exercises. Specific layered on specific may not be the answer. 2. Are any of these intense enough to actually reduce injury of an object being whipped around the body at 80mph.

As a former researcher in the area, I find it VERY troubling to see a speaker at #SSAC23 saying that menstrual cycle affects injury risk, recovery, and advocating for 'training around the cycle'. There is ZERO evidence for this. Don't do it. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

Excited to be able to present at the @spfsconference . An incredible caliber of practitioners and researchers to present alongside.

The characteristics that make isometrics good for managing pain during competition periods also make them a prime choice for early stage rehab of patellar tendinopathy, says John Grace, MS. simplifaster.com/articles/patel… via SimpliFaster

Great convo with the guys from Sportlight Technology Ltd from a while back. Their team is really developing in this space and working to bring many of the things discussed into fruition. sportlight.ai/post/sportligh…

Here is the slidedeck from the 2023 Sportrail Football Conference @spfsconference on Autonomy Supportive Coaching. Many strategies to use with your athletes to increase belief and outputs within the training process. slideshare.net/JohnRussellGra…

This presentation is gold. Read it as it takes a few minutes and is loaded with nuggets to enhance any program.

We have very good experiences with heavy resided walks & sprints very early in the rehab process after hamstring injuries. Feel it should be incorporated in standard rehab protocols. DynaSpeed by MuscleLab

My thinking for a long while has been that the Achilles, and most other tendons AND the ACL have tissue degradation prior to rupture. Next paper says not always. But, teams should be regularly screening players for this. There are even steps to take to screen before imaging.

Stop with the agenda pushing when NFL players get hurt. X PLAYER didn’t get as hurt because they have a big squat. Y PLAYER doesn’t get hurt because they train like a track athlete. Z PLAYER got hurt because they didn’t do this method. No one method can outrun all injuries

SF On This Day—2-1-2020 A Systematic Approach to Patellar Tendinopathy Rehabilitation "The further the tendon goes into the disrepair state & the longer it stays there, the harder it may be to bring the tendon back to a pain-free state." 📈 John Grace, MS simplifaster.com/articles/patel…

Heavy Sleds - What the Science Says It’s obvious that as you increase the load things slow down. GCTs increase but at what cost? Note: Calves and Hamstrings clearly decrease activity as the load increases to 50% VDec. With all the Achilles and calf issues you have to wonder…

Really enjoyed this convo w/ John Grace, MS with some crazy stories from his time in performance. A little different, we started out w/ 3 soccer-specific q’s then dove into his craziest stories Snippets/show notes in this post. Link in bio for Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube

Great convo with Matt Tometz. Nice combination of some performance stuff and some personal stories. Between his podcast and other content avenues, Matt’s been cranking out some great stuff for coaches.

I guess speed squatting is back after a 50 year hiatus? Embarrassing. Either get stronger (force) or jump. Much of the hybrid work is propaganda from decades ago that was just ideas that never transferred. Transfer is improvement that can be seen in performance and training.

Published today in Int'l Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance along with my great friends Irineu Loturco PhD and Lucas A. Pereira (open access): a well - deserved tribute to the brilliant and visionary Juan José González- Badillo , the pioneer of velocity - based training ( VBT ) . We discuss the velocity zones