Strength and Conditioning Stuff You Should Read: 7/6/18

Written on July 6, 2018 at 7:43 am, by Eric Cressey

I hope you all had a great holiday week. Here's some recommended reading and listening from around the 'net over the past week:

The Best Team Wins - This was an awesome recommendation from my buddy Josh Bonhothal. Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton provide some outstanding strategies for both sports team settings and businesses alike. The section on Baby Boomers vs. Generation Xers vs. Millenials was particularly fascinating.

Matej Hocevar on the Physical Preparation Podcast - Matej is an absolutely awesome guy with a wealth of information to share, and this podcast is an excellent example. He was also an amazing host to my wife and me when we visited Slovenia a few years ago.

7 Ways to Increase Your Training Density - I reincarnated this post from the archives earlier in the week and it was a hit, so I wanted to give it a mention here as well.

Top Tweet of the Week

If throwers try too hard to drive early arm speed, they may give up the core create a late arm action that sprays balls up & arm side (or accidental cutters). We coach athletes: “allow the hips to deliver the hand.” Here’s one of our favorite exercises to teach this patterning. pic.twitter.com/vKRTCsCcFr

— Eric Cressey (@EricCressey) July 5, 2018

Top Instagram Post of the Week

 

Lat strains don't happen because the lats are weak. They happen because they're heavily overused with imbalanced lifting programs, poorly executed arm care, everyday breathing, and faulty core stabilization patterns. And guys are throwing wicked hard. Lat pulldowns won't fix this. #cspfamily

A post shared by Eric Cressey (@ericcressey) on Jun 28, 2018 at 4:39am PDT

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