Andrew Hauser

Was the funniest thing I witnessed on the field during my time in the big leagues. Joe Kelly’s reaction made it even more priceless.

Ron Darling shares his thoughts on pitching today. Very well said Give it a listen

Low (Intensity) Steady Duration is paramount for durability. Structure, both anatomically at the macro alignment level as well as the organelle level needs to be supported. Protocols without calibration is just lazy guessing with fancy scientific terms. Serial profiling wins.

BREAKING: President Trump, Vice President Vance, and RFK Jr along with current and former sports legends, announce the return of the Presidential Fitness Test for public schools. Started by Eisenhower in 1956, Obama ended it in 2012. Long overdue!! 🇺🇸

Hand-to-hand swing - our top choice for AXE: anti-glycolytic training is most effective when there are brief relaxation pauses between contractions. “‘The opportunity to relax the muscles or at least to decrease the load on them between efforts plays a significant role.’ (Verkhoshansky, 1988) Even though the hand-to-hand swing does not allow the “non-working” side to relax, a decreased load makes a big difference.” — Pavel’s Kettlebell Axe: High Speed, Low Drag Alternative to HIIT >>> strongfirst.com/shop/books/ket… -Build muscle -Boost power -Lose fat -Multiply work capacity -Burst with energy -The “A” in “AXE” stands for “aerobic.” The “X” refers to type IIX fast muscle fibers. “E” is for “exercise.” AXE will install aerobic power infrastructure in your fast fibers. While simultaneously making these fibers bigger and more powerful—the ancient conflict between strength and endurance finally resolved. With AXE, you will sprint faster and hit harder—over and over—while producing less soul- and performance-crushing lactic acid. Improve your health and boost your energy. A friend of the author, a military and federal law enforcement veteran who lived at the tip of the spear for four decades and has the mileage to show for it, said after starting AXE: “I feel 15–20 years younger.” A Kettlebell Axe training session feels like a lumberjack’s labor: powerful, unrushed, relentless. StrongFirst applied AXE to our go-to exercise, the kettlebell swing, and developed a bulletproof progression. Follow it two or three times a week and be unstoppable. Do it as standalone training—just add your favorite upper body work—or combine it with almost any athletic training. #pavel #paveltsatsouline #kettlebell #kettlebellaxe #strongfirst #bestrongfirst

Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at the age of 76. I still can't believe it. A few weeks ago he was giving his final concert. I hope you came home, Ozzy ❤️

What a legend that was lost. Everyone in the running, training and therapy space should do themselves a favor and read or re-read his work!

@ErwanLeCorre Mitochondria

What is this?

@stevemagness Everyone wants to look at “functional” over structural changes. Need at least 8 weeks to begin promoting structural changes

You've probably seen headlines: High-Intensity Training is superior to easy aerobic running. But dig deeper and you'll notice a pattern: most of these studies are short: just 4 to 8 weeks. A recent review tells a fuller story. In the early weeks, HIT and Sprint Interval Training outperform easy endurance training (ET). But over the long haul… the story changes

@Results_Period GPP is the one thing that should never leave your program anytime of year. I consistently see with professional athletes that it is the one bucket that is never filled enough. I believe that younger athletes cannot even fill it enough

Gpp in youth athletes (6-18) is often sacrificed. It’s one of the issues with over coached/ early specialization in the USA. Multi sport athletes miss out as well because of all the standing around and poor coaching. The majority of incoming college athletes have a training age of <1-2 years. Yet we see athletes at the highest level remain dedicated to the basics. From pole vault to xc skiing we see different approaches to Gpp. Most athletes will never make it to elite levels so it’s our job to ensure they enjoy being active for life. (Chart from - The Training Characteristics of the World's Most Successful Female Cross-Country Skier Guro S Solli 1, Espen Tønnessen 2, Øyvind Sandbakk)

Here's another melanin bomb for you - embryos make melanin as early as week 6, this should make you curious. - Why would melanin be needed as early as week 6 in utero when there's no sunlight present? - UVA/UVB light can't penetrate deeply into the mother, so there's no sunlight present within the womb, so how is POMC being cleaved into alpha-MSH? - On that topic, how is there the stimulus of UV light snapping DNA strands to drive p53—POMC—aMSH—tyrosinase—melanogenesis cascade? - What is melanin really doing there if all it does (according to centralized science) is act as a pigment molecule to absorb sunlight, and dissipate it as heat? Connection: The womb is a low-oxygen, redox-sensitive, water-dense environment. Oxygen sits around 2-3% which is far below atmospheric levels. Oxygen is what controls biophoton emissions (200 - 1500nm) via ROS/RNS neutralization, to act as an efficient signal of energy/information via utilizing biophotons for its "laser-like" properties to directly target other regions within the cell or organelle. Despite being hypoxic, there are still mitochondria found within the uterus. Not just in the embryo, but in the endometrium, placenta, and maternal blood vessels. These mitochondria release ultra-weak biophoton emissions as part of redox signaling, especially under stress, hypoxia, and fluctuating energetic demands. And guess what has the potential to absorb and fine-tune these signals? Melanin can. For Mum: The external environment (sunlight, darkness) has the potential to control biophoton patterns internally within the womb. This is due to UV/IR widespread beneficial effects within the body, whilst blue light/nnEMF does the opposite. At dielectric constants near 1000 when hydrated (mito CCO), melanin behaves more like a bioelectronic superconductor than a UV shield. This means it can: - Store/release electromagnetic energy on demand for healthy fetal growth - Buffer free radical/biophotons - Create charge-separated zones for morphogenesis - Organize neural crest migration and tissue patterning via light - Act as an antenna for cellular signal coherence Hydrated melanin is the motherboard of early human development.

Episode 104 with @_ahauser Oxygen, Tissue Health, High Performance Staff⤵️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mov…

@photobiogenesis This brings up an interesting question about many athletes that are getting hurt today. Are they increasing their age internally, thus laying down more disorganized collagen? On top of the fact that they are destroying their Melanin

Total collagen content of the body actually INCREASES with aging The problem is that these structural proteins become fragmented and disorganized Collagen is the main electrically conductive protein in the body and its disorganization obscures the morphogenic/bioelectric field

Proprioceptive Plyometrics Some of the great information from the 1990s was gold for rehab and injury prevention (Gambetta, Lundin), as it was not just jacking up power or force. When designing jump training (plyos), focus on how you connect the nervous system to the loading.

@jem_arnold So, a physiological inefficiency showing up in a mechanical inefficiency or vice versa? As they improve and we train this the picture looks far different and much more efficient

@jem_arnold Yes and no. I think they are using their arms rather than their trunk more than we originally anticipated. You see this phenomena in throwing athletes that have flexion contractures especially. In your example, we would expect more of a venous occlusion to occur

Thoughts about running? Will propulsion phase be above the critical occlusion tension in locomotor muscles? During sprints? Middle-distance? Marathon?? I'd expect it probably is in gastroc at least, based on how mNIRS deoxygenates during incremental running in many athletes 🤔

This study supports BreathHoldWork® by confirming that circulation is not solely cardiac—it is also vascular, metabolic, and energetically driven. Breath-hold training enhances the internal conditions (like endothelial tone and IR heat production) that make this deeper circulatory intelligence possible.

@jem_arnold With throwing athletes, as an example, I frequently see even more desaturation in forearms as compared to VL’s with tempo runs. This is an activity they typically do a lot as well, so coordination of the activity should not be an issue.

@_ahauser Interesting, thanks. Can you say more? What are you seeing? How is it different to endurance trained athletes?

New paper on mitochondrial distribution across the human body If you have more mitochondria than the average person in your heart, does that mean you also have more than average in your brain, muscles, kidneys, etc? We investigated inter-organ correlations in mitochondria 🧵