After surviving last week’s sale, I took a quick blog hiatus to get my feet underneath me. I’ll have some new content posted later in the week, but in the meantime, here’s with some recommended reading.

Pitching Injuries: Should Lat Strains Even Be Happening? – In light of Noah Syndergaard’s lat injury this week, this article of mine from last year got a lot of traffic (and I received lots of emails and social media outreach). This one’s a whopper, so have a cup of coffee ready to help get you through it.

The Hardest Topic to Write About: Program Design – My old friend Tony Gentilcore did an excellent job tackling a complex topic. I’d highly recommend you give this a thorough read to appreciate just how daunting a task it is to write about program design.

The Stop & Give Me 20 Podcast – I hopped on a 20-minute podcast interview with Anthony Renna a few weeks ago, and you can listen to it here. I really enjoyed it because it wasn’t the same 10 questions that ever podcast interviewer seems to ask!

Top Tweet of the Week

Entertaining that folks on Twitter say that a pro athlete “sucks.” Yes, he sucks so badly that he’s in top .001% on planet in his sport. 🤔

— Eric Cressey (@EricCressey) May 2, 2017

Top Instagram Post of the Week

After preparing this elaborate deadlift set-up, @frankduffyfitness (the MacGuyver of @cresseysportsperformance) built me a power rack out of popsicle sticks, and made a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles diorama. #cspfamily #deadlift #cspstrengthcamp

A post shared by Eric Cressey (@ericcressey) on May 2, 2017 at 8:24am PDT