I hope you’ve had a great week. To kick off the weekend, here’s a little recommended reading and listening from around the strength and conditioning world.

9 Ways to Survive Off Days – This audio blog from Mike Robertson shares some good strategies for making the most of non-training days.

3 Reasons Team Training Might be a Threat to Your Business – This might be my favorite blog post that my business partner, Pete Dupuis, has ever written.

Cleaning Up Thoracic Rotation – Dean Somerset offers some great insights on optimizing thoracic spine mobility training.

Top Tweet of the Week

A mistake you’ll see in stiff-leg deadlift technique is slamming the knees into hyperextension on the lowering portion. This limits hip hinging and instead put stress on passive restraints of the knee. The kneecap shouldn’t be behind the heel; it’s a stiff (not straight) leg DL. pic.twitter.com/rWnhVxt2tt

— Eric Cressey (@EricCressey) January 16, 2019

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585×5 is a PR, but more impressively, I threw up in my mouth a little bit on the 4th rep and you can’t really tell. #cspfamily #deadlift

A post shared by Eric Cressey (@ericcressey) on Jan 13, 2019 at 8:22am PST

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