Here’s this week’s list of recommended strength and conditioning reading:

Hacking Sleep: Engineering a High Quality, Restful Night – Brian St. Pierre goes into great detail on how to improve sleep quality in order to optimize recovery and fitness progress.

What You Need to Know About GIRD – Mike Reinold put together a great review of the literature and outlined the common mistakes he sees with respect to glenohumeral internal rotation deficit (GIRD). This is stuff that Mike and I discuss literally every week, so I’m glad he’s finally put it into a comprehensive article. If you’re a coach who is universally prescribing sleeper stretch to all your players, this is must-read material; you’ll reconsider it after you’re done.

Injuries are an Opportunity – Andrew Ferreira is a CP pro guy in the Twins system, and he offered this great insight on how you can’t just have a pity party when you get hurt; you have to use it as an avenue through which you can get better.