Let’s kick off the week with some good recommended reading and listening!

Chidi Enyia on Building Explosive Speed, Strength and Power with Potentiation – There’s some really good stuff in this podcast with Chidi Enyia and Mike Robertson.

Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? – This was a lengthy feature at Outside Magazine that I found intriguing.

Never Lose a Customer Again – This is a great read for anyone who has clients/customers, but I found it particularly interesting because it spoke quite a bit to retention in the fitness industry, with shoutouts to the Starrets (San Francisco Crossfit) and Jon Goodman (the Personal Trainer Development Center).

Top Tweet of the Week

A @jaegersports quote on long toss that’s invaluable: “Impress me on the way in, not on the way out.” Here’s @max_scherzer at ~210 feet with @trevor_gott yesterday. Get your mind and body right in the warmup, then let it eat on the pulldown throws on the way back in. #cspfamily pic.twitter.com/3o5rWCwMew

— Eric Cressey (@EricCressey) January 12, 2019

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I’m a big fan of single-leg work, and one of my favorite offseason progressions on this front is to do split squats from a dead-stop on the pins. It works great with an anterior-loaded (front squat) set-up or on the safety squat bar. It also pairs well with split-squat cycle jumps in a complex training pairing. Great demos from @breezy_b_25 (Mets) and @foshizzle7 (Blue Jays). 👏 #cspfamily

A post shared by Eric Cressey (@ericcressey) on Jan 10, 2019 at 12:24pm PST

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