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Tony Shield, Associate Prof of Exercise Science. The science & conventional practice of strength & power training. Formerly Das_Shield
Brisvegas Australia
Joined August 2022
Devoted to all those who believe that glutes lie dormant during sprints, squats and jumps, unless athletes first perform a few clams, bear crawls & prone hip extensions
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Nah. sEMG was, on this occasion, 43% higher and that's meaningless. Likely different rom, speeds and/or loads account for these observations.
Muscle activation is 43% higher in free weight squats than Smith machine squats.
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But your phd student got caught out with 3 hallucinated references in her thesis?
Universities teach PhDs to waste 4 months on literature reviews. Using methods from 2005. In 2025, this is academic malpractice. Here's what happened when I used AI assistance:
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@SS_strength There can't seriously be people who believe squats don't train the hamstrings...
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How about preventing ai hallucinations getting into your thesis by reading the whole paper b4 you cite it?
My PhD student submitted her thesis chapter last week. 3 citations were completely fabricated. Authors that don't exist. Journals never published. Studies that never happened. She had no idea. ChatGPT hallucinated them. Now we're retracing every citation in her entire thesis.
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From a tech guy. I guess they make up for it by having the biggest, most egregious assholes?
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Great review article by @JamesRBroatch "The Influence of Post-Exercise Cold-Water Immersion on Adaptive Responses to Exercise: A Review of the Literature" https://t.co/FjD15FcNl7
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Researchers compare short rests to 20s rests! That'll be useful!
💪 Short rest — slower gains? 🕒 A new study compared 20 s vs 2 min rest between sets (equal training volume). Both groups got stronger, but 2 min rest led to slightly better muscle & strength gains 👉Longer rest = higher quality sets & recovery. https://t.co/GZWsev1IEl
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Well it's exactly on trend in the USA to have vastly under qualified ppl in charge of stuff...
Should someone whose biggest claim to fame is climbing trees be running America’s space program? 🤔
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This conclusion could have been reached in 1990.
🆕"Post-exercise stretching on lower limb muscle recovery: Necessary or just to calm down?" ➡️This systematic research revealed no significant ⬆️ in soreness, strength, performance, flexibility, or pain threshold 👉Pei Zhang et al, 2025 🇰🇷 📂Open Access: https://t.co/RyUBbIS8ht
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6/6 Individualising programs based on the FV profile doesn't always prove advantageous (evidence is 2:1 against as per Bobbert et al). However, it doesn't matter. You can individualise from raw data. Do the extra maths if it turns you on or save time and do more coaching.
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5/6 FV profiling also asks us to optimise training to a given distance. Good luck choosing that distance. You're as likely to be wrong than right for field sports. It probably doesn't matter though as your training programs are way less precise that this method assumes.
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4/6 If the distances are large enough, the human eye does FV profiling. The whole world knows who needs more of what. Timing gates can help with shorter distances.
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3/6 But the raw data tells us that already. From below, red needs more acceleration/strength work, blue needs more speed work. There is NO NEW INFORMATION in the FV graph. (btw it doesn't matter if the examples here are unrealistic).
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2/6 https://t.co/AGBBuLy2TY FV profiling promises to help you deliver individualised training to optimise performance by converting distance-time or velocity time data into the F-V curve (profile). Blue needs more speed work, red needs more strength/acceleration.
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1/6 Force-velocity profiling is completely unnecessary.
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Where will the 2028 Olympics be held? Maybe arresting foreigners will be the host's new demonstration sport?
🧵 Something folks are missing here: this raid wasn’t about “illegals taking American jobs.” It was about ICE storming the Hyundai–LG battery plant in Georgia, part of a $7.6B Metaplant project that isn’t even operational yet. They dragged out more than 300 South Korean
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Hamstring injuries are still the most common muscle injury in field sports. Our new @SportsMedicineJ review asks: why do they keep happening, and how can eccentric training help? https://t.co/i2aNckiIDF
@ActivateGlutes @GlenLichtwark @patricio_ppm @UQHealth @QUT @unisqaus
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Why did three @brisbanebroncos players tear their hamstrings in one game vs the Storm? 🤕 In the @ConversationEDU, we unpack why hamstring injuries happen so often — and how sprinting & eccentric training can help prevent them Anoosha Pai @ActivateGlutes @MBourne5 @patricio_ppm
More than 80% of hamstring injuries in sport occur during sprinting. Two training approaches can help reduce these injuries. @MaxAndrews100 @Griffith_Uni @QUT @UQ_News @unisqaus
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With all this winning who needs to lose?
RFK Jr. and HHS keep delivering wins. From EXPOSING pharma money to launching fitness challenges to RESTORING real science, you won’t see these victories in the mainstream press. MAHA Wins of the Week ⬇️
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"Read-the-room" awareness at its finest. How out of touch would you need to be to send adult staff a list with the following? At least 2 senior staff must have agreed this was a good idea.
UTS to slash 400 jobs but tells staff not to get stressed? The uni's list of tips "trivialise psychosocial harm and are profoundly embarrassing for a university". Join our campaign for better universities: https://t.co/rUQrZIHcL5
https://t.co/KUGrSpGWyi
#HigherEducation #HigherEd
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