After a one-week hiatus, it’s time for another installment of recommended strength and conditioning reading:

So Good They Can’t Ignore You – This is a tremendous book that was recommended to me by my good friend, Luka Hocevar. If you’ve ever gotten the career tip of “follow your passion,” this book will set you straight with outstanding examples of why it’s terrible advice, and how to best build the career you want. I’ll be discussing it in more detail in an upcoming blog as well.

Butt Wink is Not About the Hamstrings – Amen, Dean Somerset, amen. Your butt isn’t tucking under when squat because you have “tight hamstrings.”

Dinosaur Logic – This is a great post from Dirk Hayhurst about the idiocy of people thinking that professional pitchers (with Masahiro Tanaka’s recent injury as the example) are getting hurt because they’re weak and getting babied. It actually came out right after this article I wrote on a similar topic, but from a different perspective: Are Pitchers Really Getting Babied?