Consultant Perf Scientist/ S&C. PhD Neuro-Muscle-Tendon Adaptations to Resistance Training 🏋‍♂️ musclemechanicslab.com

N. Ireland
🚨🚨 Interested in ⬆️ mechanical properties of tendons? 🚨🚨 Please see below for a 🧵 on why strain magnitude is an important factor based off my recent review journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/A…
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Mechanical overload alters gene expression in a distinct population of myonuclei near muscle fibre ends, suggesting specialised roles in adaptation. doi.org/10.1186/s13395-026-0…
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Dr. Gerard McMahon retweeted
It's time for the swing to come back...
Jeff Teague says the workouts got easier in the NBA and he actually got hurt more than he did in college “No, they care. It’s just the way you train. Like Gil said it. I remember I got hurt because the way I started training when I got to the NBA, it was different than when I trained when I was in college. Like, I was a machine in college.” “When I worked out with them football dudes, I was a machine. As soon as I got to the league and the workouts went to more easier things, like, ‘All right, just three sets of this, get a little core’, all of a sudden I start having knee pains. All of a sudden I start having all these other things.” “Then at the end of my career, I started lifting like I did in high school and college and stuff, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I feel good.’ But my body done already had that wear and tear. It was over with.” “And now I lift like we did when I was in college. Now my knees don’t hurt. Now I feel good. And I’m like, ‘I’m 40.’ It ain’t pointless because you’re trying to be healthy forever. But while you’re in the league, that stuff do matter. I should have been lifting like I was in college.”
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Sincerest condolences to the friends & family of @ciaramageean . Had the pleasure of meeting Ciara several times. Grit personified. Great person, incredible athlete & proud Down Camog. RIP Ciara 🙏 ☘️ 🔴⚫️
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Is Ca2+ ion fatigue a well established phenomenon that we can tailor our training around? Well, not really... but that doesnt stop the social media gurus 🙄
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Proud to be invited to the legendary Narodne Sportove Centrum in Bratislava next month to talk about muscle activation and its role in training, performance & adaptation. Hope to see some of you there 💪⚡️🧠
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🔥🔥Chest Hypertrophy Tip 🔥🔥 Load up heavy in the mid-range. Huge torque profile due to length-tension r'ship and mechanical advantage overlap (and bit of passive tension in there also). #hypertrophy
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A lot to get through in part 3 – apologies it’s a long one! Stiffness & RFD, research limitations, representative 'sprinters' in research?.. and where does the increase in stiffness come from? 🏃‍♂️⛓️💪
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See below here @LinkedInHelp
Hey @LinkedIn Why are you trying to coerce me to provide you with a government ID and facial picture to access my account? Ive 2 factor authentication in place yet you've frozen me out and forcing me to comply to access my account. Unfreeze this immediately please
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Hey @LinkedIn Why are you trying to coerce me to provide you with a government ID and facial picture to access my account? Ive 2 factor authentication in place yet you've frozen me out and forcing me to comply to access my account. Unfreeze this immediately please
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Dr. Gerard McMahon retweeted
Chris Beardsley has always been and always will be a social media guru with no skin in the game. Dr Gerard coming in hottttttttt
"Sprinters have the same tendon stiffness or are more compliant than untrained controls?" Sure - if you cherry-pick weak data and misunderstand tendon biomechanics The usual awful stuff from Chris Beardsley here. So this is Part 1 of a 3-part video @lahti_johan @GregLehman
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Does a compliant tendon store ⬆️ energy than a stiffer one? Apparently the S&C profession are getting it wrong by ⬆️ tendon stiffness. Also, apparently compliance leads to quasi-iso contractions So who actually knows about how tendons store energy & how the MTC functions in 🏃‍♂️?
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"Sprinters have the same tendon stiffness or are more compliant than untrained controls?" Sure - if you cherry-pick weak data and misunderstand tendon biomechanics The usual awful stuff from Chris Beardsley here. So this is Part 1 of a 3-part video @lahti_johan @GregLehman
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Despite differences in 0-48hrs recovery which we showed here, the data should only be interpreted in the context of an acute window. This doesnt appear to impede adaptation as chronic training at longer muscle-tendon lengths yields improved magnitude of adaptation. @GladysOP1
Authors from @ManMetUni and @UlsterSchSport put together today's piece, Joint angle-specific neuromuscular time course of recovery after #isometric resistance #exercise at shorter and longer muscle lengths (Gerard McMahon and Gladys Onambele-Pearson): ow.ly/ZU6k50ZOPBN
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So Bruno Fernandes can 1. kick Phil Foden, then 2. kick the ball away immediately after Thats 2 separate bookable offences, both prior to Foden kicking him. Instead of 2 yellows, he gets off completely unpunished. How does that even happen? @SkySportsPL @GNev2 #MUNMCI
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