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The Caleb Williams Scramble That Revealed the NFL's Reactive Strength Deficit (opens the original)
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Caleb Williams Reactive Strength Hamstrings Injury (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowThe media is calling it non-contact, and it is. But the film shows something more specific. Williams pulls his right knee up to clear a diving defender, and his hamstring goes from short to full length in fractions of a second. He plants at length, on a rain-soaked natural grass field, in cleats. The tissue has to damp the energy of that landing, and it can’t. That’s a bottom-up reactive strength injury, and in this video we walk through it frame by frame.The
Penn State, Mark Latash and the UCM Hypothesis. (opens the original)
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John Baker Founders Meeting (Recording) (opens the original)
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Share Absolute: The Art and Science of Human PerformanceJohn Baker is a former Major League catcher. Following retirement from MLB he served as the Chicago Cubs’ Head Applied Mental Performance Coach before becoming Director of Coaching & Player Development and later Vice President of Performance for the Pittsburgh Pirat
What’s the Intent Here? Because the Language is Programming. (opens the original)
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This week we were in State College with the Penn State Football medical and performance staffs. The first slide carried the whole in-service:The language is programming. Treatment and training, programmed in conjugation—one strategy, one athlete, cumulative multifaceted effects that transfer to the football field.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qIM9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.c
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