Was the funniest thing I witnessed on the field during my time in the big leagues. Joe Kelly’s reaction made it even more priceless.

Ron Darling shares his thoughts on pitching today. Very well said Give it a listen

Low (Intensity) Steady Duration is paramount for durability. Structure, both anatomically at the macro alignment level as well as the organelle level needs to be supported. Protocols without calibration is just lazy guessing with fancy scientific terms. Serial profiling wins.

BREAKING: President Trump, Vice President Vance, and RFK Jr along with current and former sports legends, announce the return of the Presidential Fitness Test for public schools. Started by Eisenhower in 1956, Obama ended it in 2012. Long overdue!! 🇺🇸

Hand-to-hand swing - our top choice for AXE: anti-glycolytic training is most effective when there are brief relaxation pauses between contractions. “‘The opportunity to relax the muscles or at least to decrease the load on them between efforts plays a significant role.’ (Verkhoshansky, 1988) Even though the hand-to-hand swing does not allow the “non-working” side to relax, a decreased load makes a big difference.” — Pavel’s Kettlebell Axe: High Speed, Low Drag Alternative to HIIT >>> strongfirst.com/shop/books/k… -Build muscle -Boost power -Lose fat -Multiply work capacity -Burst with energy -The “A” in “AXE” stands for “aerobic.” The “X” refers to type IIX fast muscle fibers. “E” is for “exercise.” AXE will install aerobic power infrastructure in your fast fibers. While simultaneously making these fibers bigger and more powerful—the ancient conflict between strength and endurance finally resolved. With AXE, you will sprint faster and hit harder—over and over—while producing less soul- and performance-crushing lactic acid. Improve your health and boost your energy. A friend of the author, a military and federal law enforcement veteran who lived at the tip of the spear for four decades and has the mileage to show for it, said after starting AXE: “I feel 15–20 years younger.” A Kettlebell Axe training session feels like a lumberjack’s labor: powerful, unrushed, relentless. StrongFirst applied AXE to our go-to exercise, the kettlebell swing, and developed a bulletproof progression. Follow it two or three times a week and be unstoppable. Do it as standalone training—just add your favorite upper body work—or combine it with almost any athletic training. #pavel #paveltsatsouline #kettlebell #kettlebellaxe #strongfirst #bestrongfirst

Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at the age of 76. I still can't believe it. A few weeks ago he was giving his final concert. I hope you came home, Ozzy ❤️

What a legend that was lost. Everyone in the running, training and therapy space should do themselves a favor and read or re-read his work!

Here's another melanin bomb for you - embryos make melanin as early as week 6, this should make you curious. - Why would melanin be needed as early as week 6 in utero when there's no sunlight present? - UVA/UVB light can't penetrate deeply into the mother, so there's no sunlight present within the womb, so how is POMC being cleaved into alpha-MSH? - On that topic, how is there the stimulus of UV light snapping DNA strands to drive p53—POMC—aMSH—tyrosinase—melanogenesis cascade? - What is melanin really doing there if all it does (according to centralized science) is act as a pigment molecule to absorb sunlight, and dissipate it as heat? Connection: The womb is a low-oxygen, redox-sensitive, water-dense environment. Oxygen sits around 2-3% which is far below atmospheric levels. Oxygen is what controls biophoton emissions (200 - 1500nm) via ROS/RNS neutralization, to act as an efficient signal of energy/information via utilizing biophotons for its "laser-like" properties to directly target other regions within the cell or organelle. Despite being hypoxic, there are still mitochondria found within the uterus. Not just in the embryo, but in the endometrium, placenta, and maternal blood vessels. These mitochondria release ultra-weak biophoton emissions as part of redox signaling, especially under stress, hypoxia, and fluctuating energetic demands. And guess what has the potential to absorb and fine-tune these signals? Melanin can. For Mum: The external environment (sunlight, darkness) has the potential to control biophoton patterns internally within the womb. This is due to UV/IR widespread beneficial effects within the body, whilst blue light/nnEMF does the opposite. At dielectric constants near 1000 when hydrated (mito CCO), melanin behaves more like a bioelectronic superconductor than a UV shield. This means it can: - Store/release electromagnetic energy on demand for healthy fetal growth - Buffer free radical/biophotons - Create charge-separated zones for morphogenesis - Organize neural crest migration and tissue patterning via light - Act as an antenna for cellular signal coherence Hydrated melanin is the motherboard of early human development.

Episode 104 with @_ahauser Oxygen, Tissue Health, High Performance Staff⤵️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Proprioceptive Plyometrics Some of the great information from the 1990s was gold for rehab and injury prevention (Gambetta, Lundin), as it was not just jacking up power or force. When designing jump training (plyos), focus on how you connect the nervous system to the loading.

This study supports BreathHoldWork® by confirming that circulation is not solely cardiac—it is also vascular, metabolic, and energetically driven. Breath-hold training enhances the internal conditions (like endothelial tone and IR heat production) that make this deeper circulatory intelligence possible.

New paper on mitochondrial distribution across the human body If you have more mitochondria than the average person in your heart, does that mean you also have more than average in your brain, muscles, kidneys, etc? We investigated inter-organ correlations in mitochondria 🧵

Muscle O₂ saturation plateaus during a 3min all-out cycling test at the same values in the VL, but is lower in triceps, during hypoxia vs normoxia. Greater drops in females > males. Can systemic intensity be detected in "lower metabolic priority" non-locomotor muscles?

Loving me this 1970's Wolfgang Schmidt discus breakdown with synth backing🎶 📹throwhammer/yt

Higher muscle mitochondrial oxidative capacity is associated with >10 years of preserved brain structure. 🧵1/9

JUST IN: Senate has confirmed Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary, 51 to 45. Lutnick lost over 650 friends, family members & employees in the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001. This is one of the most powerful stories you'll ever hear.

This is an excellent lesson by Randy Huntington on max velocity and relaxing the quad muscle so the lower leg can freely move.

The Black Crowes and Slash on acoustic guitar covering Led Zeppelin’s "Going To California" last night at FireAid.

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