Jeff

@MikeBasic2 thank you, fixed🫠

@iambald seems backwards like you forgot a minus sign somewhere

new tool: how much did your lane draw impact your 200m? based on diamond league results jeffchen.dev/projects/track…

3.40 standing long jump pr today

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whyyyyy does a menu ever need a spinner

im famous

6.87 fastest opener ever

10 years older than the guys i'm racing feelsbadman

@RobinhoodApp 🫴

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300lb power clean PB… ignore the starfish I’m not a real lifter

rip

incredibly sketchy that my 401k provider switched but my login stayed the same

Snowing in Octoberrrrrrr

More evidence of LLM time travel

3.38m standing long jump pr today

Finally proving my brag that I can hit 1100 anytime anywhere

Yolo’d an 1100lb total in my first offseason lift—only up from here. Basically forgot how to squat lol

@pntrack @Bill_Dill4 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@Bill_Dill4 100% Your take made me wonder… Haven’t players always played through calf soreness? If yes, why are we seeing more tendon problems now? I’m not saying I have the answers.

Tendons. My quad tendon tear (April 25) and surgery (May 6) has been a life changing event. Yesterday I hit 96 degrees of flexion 🙂. My surgeon says he “worries about guys like me”… reminding me it will take a FULL YEAR to recover. For Charles Barkley, tearing his quad tendon was a career-ender. Jayson Tatum (age 27) and Tyrese Halliburton (age 25) both tore tendons (Achilles) as I watched the NBA Playoffs from my recliner. When I stumbled off a 5” stair, my quad tendon snapped before I hit the ground. My tendon was tight after a long run earlier that morning AND it was 66 years old. I believe my tendon would NOT have snapped at the age of 26. This “age of tendons” idea has dominated my thoughts on the subject. The number of devastating tendon injuries in 🏀 & 🏈 has become a five alarm fire. But, in my 44 years of coaching, I’ve never seen a torn tendon in a HS athlete. I’m sure it’s happened but generally speaking, YOUNG TENDONS DON’T TEAR. Here’s my take… Muscles are well-fed and regenerate, grow, and are relatively ageless. I can grow my muscles at the age of 66. Tendons are not well-fed (low blood supply) and they arguably age faster than muscles. I would gladly trade my tendon injury for a gruesome bullet wound to my quad or a grotesque broken leg. Muscles and bones are highly vascularized and heal fast. So, why are young professional athletes tearing tendons like senior citizens? 🏀 & 🏈 athletes must train elasticity (tendons). In today’s highly monetized sports world, the volume of training is never enough. #MambaMentality Speed and explosiveness (jumping & accelerating) are KPIs and have a huge elastic component. You can never be fast enough. You can never be explosive enough. 💥 What if training speed and explosiveness ages tendons while bones & muscles stay young and strong? Imagine tendons being like a set of tires: 50,000 miles and they need replaced. Worn out tires can’t be repaired. What if playing 🏀 year-round for ten years puts 30 years of age on tendons? What if NFL 🏈 players work 6 hours a day to keep the traits that punched their ticket to the league? Do their tendons grow stronger along with their muscles? Or do their tendons age? I’ll end with 3 quotes from Charlie Francis: “With elite athletes, you don’t have to push them — you have to hold them back.” “The art of coaching is knowing what not to do.” “High-intensity work requires high-quality recovery.”

12.47 120m pb, last speed endurance rep, 10 days out from my last pair of meets