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      <image:title>Blog - The Case for Craftsmanship</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman — not an artist. There’s nothing wrong with that; the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen, though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying.” - Anthony Bourdain</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - Pablo Picasso</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The Case for Craftsmanship</image:title>
      <image:caption>"In order to make delicious food, you must love delicious food. The quality of ingredients is important, but you need to develop a palate of discerning good and bad. Without good taste, you cannot make good food. If your sense of taste is lower than the customers, how can you impress them?” - Jiro Ono</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The Case for Craftsmanship - Hermès is famous for never sacrificing on quality, and for its high rates of success on systematically building generation after generation of high-level operators. This process not only requires a well-built modus operandi, but also a great deal of personal care.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Throw at Your Own Risk - “Heittaminen Omalla Vastuula!” Finnish for “Throw at Your Own Risk!”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Impulse: The King of Performance Metrics</image:title>
      <image:caption>When it comes to making connections between displacement, velocity and acceleration, it can also be very useful to understand the calculus principles of Integrals and Derivatives. A derivative measures the rate of change of a quantity, giving the slope of a function at any point. A integral does the opposite, calculating the accumulation of a quantity by measuring the area under the curve.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Here are paired kinematics graphs of simple motion examples you may see in real life. Take a moment to apply the calculus principles listed above to make connections between displacement, velocity, and acceleration for each example. This derivative relationship between velocity and acceleration is the one people seem to have the biggest issue understanding. To make things simple, if the directions of velocity and acceleration are the same, regardless of magnitude, the object is speeding up. If they are opposite, the object is slowing down.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cleather, D. (2021). Force: The biomechanics of training.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Constraint Based Learning Heuristics for Throwers - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Upon a close look, you’ll probably notice the skill acquisition funnel is very similar to the Bondarchuk Pyramid. I tend to think of the difference (although they go hand in hand) being the gap between “capacity for” and “expression of”. As we dive into constraint based learning heuristics later, keep in mind that they are not only tools to improve motor learning strategies necessary for expression of skill, but also very valuable tools for managing workload in pursuit of necessary capacity for skill.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A look at the differences between my throwing and non throwing shoulder in horizontal abduction.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Example of wider and skinnier force-time curves that have the same impulse (area under the force-time curve)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Spinal Engine Theory and Periodization of Axial Load for the Throwing Athlete - Using a blend of anatomical and physics terms, we can define axial load as the application of compressive force along the longitudinal axis of the skeleton - primarily the axial skeleton. The goal with any high axial load general training modality is to train the force production capabilities of the active tissues surrounding the axial skeleton, while simultaneously building the capacity to tolerate levels of axial load that will be experienced in sport due to high speed ground reaction forces. As with any other biological input, it’s clear that the dose and timing make the poison.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Spinal Engine Theory and Periodization of Axial Load for the Throwing Athlete - The Anatomy of the Spine</image:title>
      <image:caption>The human spine is comprised of 24 unfused/articulating vertebrae (7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar) and 9 fused vertebrae (5 sacrum, 4 coccyx). The thoracic spine and sacrum have a natural posterior curvature titled kyphosis, which is mainly a primary spinal curve (meaning it’s present at birth). The cervical and lumbar spine display a slight anterior curve called lordosis, which is mostly a secondary spinal curvature that begins to significantly develop once a child begins walking upright.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Spinal Engine Theory and Periodization of Axial Load for the Throwing Athlete - There’s a few key terms to know when it comes to the thoracic vertebrae:</image:title>
      <image:caption>Inferior and Superior Costal Facets - This is where the head of the rib “plugs” in to the superior and inferior costal facets of the two vertebrae it articulates with. Tranverse Costal Facet - Located on the tranverse process of the thoracic vertebrae, this is where the articular facet of the costal tubercle interacts with the vertebrae. Unlike the inferior and superior costal facets, this is a vertebral-costal articulation that is limited to the superior vertebrae only. Due to being more distal , it plays a big role in deforming the rib/ribcage position as the Thoracic spine flexes, extends, and rotates</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A visual of the Zygopophysial joint</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A theoretical progression of axial load through the athlete lifespan.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A theoretical progression of axial load through the YTP.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-02-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - Force : The Biomechanics Of Training - Dan Cleather</image:title>
      <image:caption>The basic skill that 90% of coaches struggle with is understanding and applying basic principles of Newtonian physics. Because they don’t understand the laws that govern the physical world around them, they can’t reverse engineer the kinematics their eyes perceive to find the kinetics that actually cause the movement they’re trying to analyze. This foundational misunderstanding causes them to make all kinds of mistakes that could be prevented by a knowledge of basic physics. Cleather does a fantastic job of explaining Newtonian principles through a training lens, and making it easily digestable for the layman. This is by far the first book anyone interested in human performance should read.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - The Charlie Francis Training System- Charlie Francis</image:title>
      <image:caption>Francis is rightfully recognized as a legend in the track and field space, and his most important contribution is popularizing the Hi-Lo method of training. This is the golden book for understanding the general adaptation syndrome, and applying it to training specific skills. The principles in this book will influence your view on training for the rest of your career.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain</image:title>
      <image:caption>A fantastic memoir from one of the last great American storytellers about true craftsmanship, and the level of masochism necessary to do great work. Although its far removed from the world of training, I’ve found it to be the most realistic representation of what this pursuing this career actually entails. Bourdain littered this piece with key lessons, hidden in the form of well written anecdotes that anyone, in any field can take value from. He also gave of my favorite seminars ever- Leadership Lessons from the Kitchen</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - Basic Biomechanics - Susan J. Hall</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is one of the first books that I ever read on biomechanics that my dad (a high school physics teacher) bought for me when I was 16. It gives a fantastic overview on the basic terms and principles that define human movement, and pairs beautifully with Force by Cleather to give you all of the basic knowledge you’ll need to work in high level biomechanics. If you read Basic Biomechanics and Force, you’ll be more educated than 99% of people currently working in the training space.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - Antifragile- Nassim Taleb</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is one of the fundamental reads for beginning to apply economics principles to training. As a general physical preparation specialist, your job is to properly handle the risk reward ratios of an athletes training portfolio, finding a key balance between robustness and optimization. This book has probably had more impact on the player development space than any other in the last 10 years. There’s more than a few key principles introduced in the book, including the concept of Antifragility, the Lindy Effect, and the Barbell Strategy. Whether you’re managing an individual athletes training portfolio, or designing wide scale, robust training systems, this is the place to start.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - How We Learn To Move- Rob Gray</image:title>
      <image:caption>This book is an essential read for not only skill coaches, but for strength/high performances coaches as well. It asks and answers one of the rudimentary questions in performance that many overlook - how does one actually learn a skill? It moves the viewpoint on learning past basic pavlovian style classical conditioning, and investigates block, constraint led, and differential models of learning. For a high performance trainer, this is an eye opener on the importance of not only physically preparing the athlete for the sport, but also developing and guiding the general motor learning and coordination abilities necessary to progress in the specific skill.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - Gray’s Basic Anatomy - Third Edition</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is one of the most important books written in human history, and is known as “The Doctors Bible” for a reason. This the most comprehensive resource in the world for anatomy, embryology, and pathologies. If your goal is high level human performance, it’s essential to a have a base understanding of the constituent pieces that humans are made of, and how those pieces work together. This is a book to refer to for the rest of your life and career, and is the backbone of modern medicine. A must have.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - The Inner Game Of Tennis - W. Timothy Gallwey</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is one of the most read mental performance books in history for a reason. Gallwey makes a fantastic case for the concepts of Self 1 (Conscious) and Self 2 (Unconscious) thinking and learning. The inner game dives into some of the same concepts that made nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow so great, while also making them more digestible and applicable to athletic performance. Combining The Inner Game with How We Learn To Move will completely change the way you think about coaching, and developing a skill.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - Transfer Of Training In Sports - Anatoliy Bondarcuk</image:title>
      <image:caption>Known as one of the godfathers of performance training, Bondarchuk pioneered the framework of general to specific that defines most modern training frameworks. Key concepts in the book include the Bondarchuk Pyramid, assessment protocols, yearly training plan periodization schemes, and more. Whether you’re a coach who’s job is specific or general preparation, this is the framework to build your understanding of player development on.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - Unreasonable Hospitality- Will Guidare</image:title>
      <image:caption>I’m admittedly prone to drawing performance inspiration from the world of high level cooking, but this book really is an instant classic that beautifully outlines the power of systemizing the potential for hospitality and human connection. Coaching, at a base level, is the art of fostering relationships with the athlete, and creating an environment that encourages their development. Guidare emphasizes the importance of not only going above and beyond for the people under your care, but also systemizing this at a wide scale to allow for the most positive impact.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - The Quadrant System - Daniel Bove</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bove is one of the best at creating training frameworks that are widely adaptable to a plethora of sports and training environments. The quadrant system is the gold standard for tracking, visualizing, and manipulating athlete workloads to allow for positive adaptations. The real genius of this book is how basic and immediately applicable the methods are, while still being massively scaleable to massive data collection volumes. This book permanently affected the way I think about training. If you’ve read and understood both The Charlie Francis Training System and The Quadrant System, you’ll be better prepared to design training programs than the majority of the field.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - The Athletic Skills Model : Optimizing Talent Development Through Movement Education</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is the go-to resource on long term athletic development. It paints out a holistic picture on building the foundational movement skills necessary for specific high performance, and lays out specific developmental methodologies and timelines for getting the job done. When reading this, it will likely become blatantly apparent that the current American sports model is doing a poor job at long term development of these skills. This is immediately applicable for not only those working with younger populations, but for anyone in the performance spaced tasked with developing highly skilled movers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - Zero To One - Peter Thiel</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of the most important business books in the modern era, with key insights into the necessity of stepwise technological advancements that can revolutionize and industry, or even the world. There are many in the performance industry who consider it to be a cyclical, already solved format. These people are not only unamerican in spirit, but are about to be completely decimated by the towering wave of artificial intelligence and synthetic data that is about to crash on the performance space. Either be looking to change the world with one of these ideas (or at least be an early adopter of them), or be fine dealing with others forcing you to adapt to the changes that they’ve made. Your choice.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Crider Performance Reading List - Easy Strength - Dan John, Pavel Tsatsouline</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is one of my favorite reads that really emphasizes how to avoid one of the most common pitfalls an athlete can fall into - the trap of just training to get good at training, rather than training to get better at their sport. The longer that I train, and train others, the more frequently I refer back to this book and marvel at how poignant the advice in it is. An all time classic.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Separating the Skill from the Self - To them, the skill is much less of an action that they themselves are performing, and more of a separate entity that they are tasked with caring for and developing. This language used is much more reminiscent of a gardener speaking of caring for a bonsai tree than the reality of an athlete performing a skill. One of the main things to be gleaned from this insight is that all of these athletes have a Platonian ideal of not only what the throw should be, but specifically what their throw should be. This ideal has been molded by their environment and past experiences. For example, if you were a kid growing up in the pacific northwest in the 2000s , the Lincecum archetype of throwing likely permanently shaped your vision of what “your throw” could be.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>“When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.” ― W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Part of the process of letting go is releasing any thoughts of how you or your piece will be received. When making art, the audience comes last. Let's not consider how a piece will be received or a release strategy until the work is finished and we love it.” ― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The principles of quality exercise selection</image:title>
      <image:caption>At its most basic, the questions that should drive your exercise selection choices are as follows- What type of adaptation am I trying to make? Is this exercise progressable in stimulus?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The principles of quality exercise selection</image:title>
      <image:caption>“If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” - Seneca</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Effective, Lindy exercise selections are so progressable because they drive at least 3 out of the 4 above potential inputs. Why is sprinting so universally agreed upon as one of the most important exercises for increasing speed and power? Because it’s infinitely progressable in acceleration and displacement (you can always sprint faster, and at different ranges of distance) and it is easily modifiable in terms of mass. The most tried and true resistance training exercises have a moment arm that increases as the muscle lengthens, as well as being stable enough to progress in total force. Think of Romanian deadlifts, prone hamstring curls, and nordic hamstring curls as key examples of this for the posterior chain of the lower body. By picking these modalities with a high capacity for stimulus, you can train them for weeks, months and even years on end with very small modifications in exercise application for variabilities sake, and continually make progress. There’s always a handoff between biomechanical optimization and capacity for stimulus progression. What you’re looking for are exercises that are somewhere in the middle, meaning that they’re biomechanically advantageous enough to train the adaptation you’re trying to train, and progressable enough that you can continuously train like hell and push the needle. Happy Hunting.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The best problem solvers are also the best problem creators</image:title>
      <image:caption>In this sense, one of the most valuable lenses to view training through is a series of problems for the athlete to solve. Just like in any other career, the highest performing, and therefore highest paid athletes are the ones who can solve the spatial and tactical problems that no one else can. The role of the skill coach then is to create these movement problems in training to allow the athlete to adapt to the specific problem solving demands of the sport, and the role of the general physical preparation coach is to build the capacity for the expression of that skill from both a force production and coordination perspective.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Lindy Training: An Inquiry into Training Principles and Methodologies - The principles drive the methods, not the other way around.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Lindy Training: An Inquiry into Training Principles and Methodologies - “Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.” - Anthony Bourdain</image:title>
      <image:caption>The longer I've trained, and trained others, the more apparent the value of simple, well executed training has become to me</image:caption>
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