Chicago White Sox Sports Science Coordinator PhD, CSCS, USAW-L1.

Joined August 2013
“You think to yourself that that person is the strong one. If he has time to ask me what’s going on with me, then surely he’s okay. But I’m old enough to know now that the strongest of us fight the biggest and the baddest and the most relentless demons.”
3 Questions… “You good?, You ok? Do you need anything?” Those 3 questions haunt me. They’re the 3 questions Naeshell asked me the day before he took his own life. What I regret most is not asking him those same 3 questions after he asked me. @thepivot youtu.be/uTrGQZWeh7U
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For an organization, group, department, etc. to drive progress and innovation, no idea or hypothesis should be above respectful scrutiny/testing and discourse. “Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.”
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Published today in @IJSPPjournal along with my great friends @IrineuLoturco and @lucasa_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
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When we say "we need male role models for boys", we don't mean some millionaire celebrity actor, podcast bro, or politically sanitised version of masculinity... We mean teachers, dads, sports coaches, grandfathers, or just normal kind men. We mean this –
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This is what a first principles perspective entails when it comes to training and programming/exercise selection.
Myths of S&C: Part 4 Power cleans are not the same as jump squats
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Basic difficulties with Force-Velocity-Power method for sprint acceleration include: 1) most of the ground force applied is ignored, 2) speed can increase when power decreases, 3) the F-V relation presented for running is opposite the simultaneous F-V activity in the muscles.
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I think this is what leads to a huge amount of confusion- practitioners don't seem to be able to discriminate external load-velocity/force- velocity r'ships & internal neuro-muscle-tendon functions. They're not 'surfing' any curves!
Replying to @ActivateGlutes
2/n But, this is force-plate data, not muscle force data and adaptation (in muscles) is driven by muscle forces (plus other muscle events) and neural adaptations are driven by the 'effort' we apply. The isokinetically derived F-V curve highlights some simplified concepts...
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Myths of S&C Part 1: The Force-Velocity Curve of Exercises Curves like this are taken as gospel, but are complete BS.
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🚨Published Today🚨 The Myth of the Myth? An Opinion Michael H. Stone, Guy Hornsby, Alex Long, Andrew Nelson, Nick Goode, Kurt McDowell, Satoshi Mizuguchi, Daniel Gahreman, Marco Duca, Kevin Carroll, Michael W. Ramsey, Margaret E. Stone, Kyle C. Pierce, Wes Gawel, Joe D’Amato, Andrew .C. Fry, Amit Batra and Gregory Haff 📲Click the link below to read the full article for 🆓👇 journal.iusca.org/index.php/…
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Periodisation works, if you’re an expert telling people it doesn’t, you probably need to revisit your methodology
🚨Published Today🚨 The Myth of the Myth? An Opinion Michael H. Stone, Guy Hornsby, Alex Long, Andrew Nelson, Nick Goode, Kurt McDowell, Satoshi Mizuguchi, Daniel Gahreman, Marco Duca, Kevin Carroll, Michael W. Ramsey, Margaret E. Stone, Kyle C. Pierce, Wes Gawel, Joe D’Amato, Andrew .C. Fry, Amit Batra and Gregory Haff 📲Click the link below to read the full article for 🆓👇 journal.iusca.org/index.php/…
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🧵6 How much do you need to change a physical ability? If you need precise technology to measure change it will have little transfer to ball sports. I want to be able to see that change, measure effect size (Cohen's D) and aim for >0.5.
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The Moneyball music hits different on this one. 💚🥺
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Welcome to Magic City, home of the 2024 Southern League champions 🎉 For the first time since 2013, the @BhamBarons celebrate a title -- this one in walk-off fashion!
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The Birmingham #Barons are Southern League Champions. It feels so good to type. Thank you for a hell of a season gentlemen. #WhiteSox 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
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Ireland fans, we’ve added Zombie to Ciaran Frawley’s drop goal. You’re welcome. In you’re heaaaaaaaaaad 🎶 #RSAvIRE
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Just a reminder of what it took for the last team to beat the All Blacks on Eden Park
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Tommy Vail with a very successful High A debut. He goes 5 innings allowing 1R/0ER on 2H and 2BB. He strikes out 10 on 52S/86P. #Dash win 7-2, and Vail is 1-0. #WhiteSox
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🚨 NO-HITTER FOR THE @Kcannonballers! 🚨 The @whitesox affiliate notches the milestone for the second straight year, this time with Seth Keener, Luke Bell + Nick Altermatt making history.
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Matt Hogan annihilates his first HR with the #Barons. They now lead 4-3. Jason Matthews (1B) comes in to score on the blast. #WhiteSox
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