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One night under 7 hours nearly tripled their injury risk the next morning.
- Researchers tracked NCAA D1 athletes for 9 months, seeing 54 injuries.
- Sub 7 hours of sleep was sharply spiked injury risk the next day.
Haraldsdottir et al. (2021) PMID 34527756
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6 movements your body needs to survive modern life.
If you’re not hitting these daily, you’re doing it wrong. (Satire, obviously).
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Are deadlifts too risky?
No.
Can you get injured deadlifting? Sure. But you can get injured doing almost anything. I hear from more patients about them hurting their back sneezing, twisting weird, etc. than I do about deadlifting.
At the end of the day, barbell deadlifts are not a required thing to do, but they are absolutely a viable option for training. I have coached thousands of people across low level to elite levels and most end up doing some variation of a deadlift.
Are other options, like power cleans, safer? Well, firstly, those don’t do the same thing as the deadlift. But, not necessarily. Lots of folks get hurt doing power cleans because they use a weight they haven’t gotten their technique right for or able to control well…..just like deadlifts.
You’re a sentient being who can make their own choices. If you feel like the deadlift isn’t a match for you, that’s cool. But, don’t write it off without really appraising why.
@robertoberst you’re absolute unit of a human being, but I disagree here. Full respect to you.
You overestimate what you can do in 3 weeks.
You underestimate what you can do in 3 years.
Most people quit because the first few weeks feel like zero progress.
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Stop half-assing your calf raises and start building real lower leg resilience.
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From our Sustainable Strength membership to our explosive Built for Athletics program, we have a system for every level of ability and goal.
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Using social media in middle school predicts lower standardized test scores in high school.
10th graders who started social media before 9th grade are ~6 months behind their peers on math & reading. They're more distracted by their phones.
No child should have access to social media.
You think a full-body MRI gives you ultimate peace of mind.
In reality? It’s a classic "great in theory, terrible in practice."
When you scan an asymptomatic person, the age-related noise, benign findings, false alarms and negative effects from focusing on them massively outweighs the chance of a true life-saving catch.
Full body MRIs on asymptomatic people don't give you clarity, it turns normal human variation into medical emergency.
High sensitivity = High incidental noise.
Systematic reviews show that ~32% of asymptomatic adults get pulled into secondary medical workups for "indeterminate" findings, while true malignancy rates sit under 2%.
You are far more likely to get an invasive wild-goose chase than a cure.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3093…
Why medical organizations & practicing physicians advise against this:
Elective screening in healthy people creates a "diagnostic cascade" of unnecessary CT scans, biopsies, and anxiety over normal human variation.
Dr. Mike broke down this exact dynamic on his podcast:
youtube.com/watch?v=qb2frC7C…
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Neurosurgeon here.
This is hogwash
We’ve been taught that structural "damage" equals pain. Modern science shows it’s rarely that simple.
Researchers reviewed MRIs of 3,100+ completely pain-free adults. Over 50% of 30-year-olds had disc degeneration or bulges.
Stop letting an MRI report dictate your physical capacity.
This is why two people can have the exact same injury and experience completely different levels of pain.
Researchers touched a 118°F heat probe to 320+ healthy adults. Their pain scores ranged from 4/100 to 100/100.
Pain isn't a direct reflection of stimulus, it's an individual interpretation.
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Who said training had to suck?
At Citizen Athletics, our goal is simple: help you move better, build strength, and actually enjoy the process every step of the way.
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I live in Alberta, every August for the last 6-7 years our skies have been orange and our air thick with smoke from California wildfires.
Not once did we threaten or even blame America.
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A few static stretches and 5 minutes on the treadmill isn't cutting it if you want to perform at your peak. A strategic, intentional warmup does more than just break a sweat, it prepares your body for the work to come.
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Systemic Health Impacts Tendinopathy:
"Obesity is associated with a greater risk of developing tendinopathy in both the upper extremity (e.g., rotator cuff, medial epicondyle) and lower extremity (e.g., Achilles tendon, patellar tendon, plantar fascia)"
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3273…
