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Culture comes before chemistry. Culture is shaped by leadership. Chemistry is shaped by team members. Chemistry is fleeting without culture.
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Coach Tim Hall
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Coach Tim Hall
@CoachTimHall
Director & Head Coach @LMCcyclingteam | Coaching - Leadership - Physical, Mental & Emotional Performance
Beech Mountain, North Carolina 加入时间 Ocak 2009
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@BBGreatMoments The pitch was above his shoulders. Clearly a ball. Only option was to take. Any fastball above 90 would be near impossible to hit in that location, much less 100.
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Throwing 100 mph with a pause in the windup is wild.
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I had a conversation with a Power 4 college coach who’s been doing this for 25+ years.
We were talking about the mentality of high school players during the recruiting process.
Here’s what he told me:
“What these kids don’t realize is…
I don’t care how many followers you have.
I don’t care how many home runs you hit in travel ball.
I don’t care how many offers you have.
I don’t care about your ranking.
I don’t care how hard you can hit a ball.
I don’t care about your metrics.
The only thing I care about is this:
Are you going to produce in between those white lines when we play this season?”
Then he said something else that hit:
“They’ve been so protected that the first time they fail, they quit… or they transfer.”
And here’s the part that matters.
The biggest development mistake I see?
Players don’t plan for failure.
They plan for success.
They visualize success.
They expect success.
But they don’t prepare for 0-4.
They don’t prepare for getting booed.
They don’t prepare for sitting the bench.
They don’t prepare for struggling for 3 weeks.
So when it happens — and it will — they panic.
Instead of executing a pre-made plan, they try to create one while emotional.
That never works.
Failure is coming.
The question is:
Did you already decide how you’re going to handle it?
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@pjonesbaseball This is true across all sports and life generally at this time.
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Congrats, Will. Effort has been rewarded. Good for you. However, @WHOOP customers should expect big changes in the user experience after the IPO. Investors listed here will exert influence to get a big ROI. Investors will come 1st, customers 2nd. So goes life after an IPO.
Will Ahmed@willahmed
BREAKING: WHOOP RAISES $575M AT $10.1B VALUATION I am pleased to announce that we’ve raised $575M at a $10.1B valuation to accelerate our mission of unlocking human performance and healthspan globally. This round was led by Collaborative Fund with participation from 2PointZero Group, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Mubadala Investment Company, Abbott, Mayo Clinic, Macquarie Capital, Glade Brook, B-Flexion, IVP, Foundry, Accomplice, Affinity Partners, Promus Ventures, and Bullhound Capital alongside a group of individual investors including Cristiano Ronaldo, LeBron James, Rory McIlroy, Virgil van Dijk, and Mathieu van der Poel. This investor group and this moment reflect a powerful evolution underway for Whoop and the broader healthcare market. Whoop was born in performance - trusted by the best athletes in the world to train, recover, and compete at the highest level. That foundation remains core to who we are. You see that in the iconic athlete investors joining this round. But it also represents our push into broader health. In the past 12 months, WHOOP has received medical clearances, launched blood testing, and created a platform that has saved lives. Abbott and Mayo Clinic - two of the most respected and influential institutions in global healthcare - are now investors in Whoop. These are organizations that have shaped modern medicine. Their decision to partner with us is a clear validation of where our technology is headed. Healthcare systems around the world are reactive. For too long, they have waited for people to get sick, then intervene. Chronic disease is rising and costs continue to climb. At Whoop, we believe the future looks fundamentally different. We are building the most powerful, personal, preventive health platform in the world - powered by continuous biometric data, advanced analytics, and AI to help people understand their bodies and improve their health in real time. I am grateful to our team, our members, and our partners for believing in this vision. I’ve been building this company for 14 years and I’ve never been more excited for the future.
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@WataugaOnline Where in Avery? What’s that website link again?
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🔥 Five active wildfires in the High Country region tonight per the NC Forest Service. McDowell (175 ac, 0%), Avery (30 ac, 0%), Wilkes (140 ac, 0%), Wilkes (20 ac, 0%), Mitchell/Poplar (350 ac, 80%). Burn ban in effect statewide. Call 911 for new fires. #HighCountryNC #WildFire #BurnBan #WilkesCounty #AveryCounty
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There’s no single best exercise for rate of force development.
The answer is covering the spectrum and understanding why each piece matters.
RFD has two distinct ends. The early phase is neural…it’s about how fast your nervous system can recruit motor units and produce
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It is the simple things of baseball that win games when it matters most. The simple things put pressure on the defense, and most times the defense isn’t ready to handle it. Case in point 👇
SEC Baseball@SECbaseball
Vandy walks it off in the most Vandy way possible, a suicide squeeze in the 16th! That’s the second day in a row with a walk off and they clinch the rivalry series over a ranked Tennessee club.
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The research behind this is wild. Your brain can’t flip from full alert to sleep like a light switch. It needs a runway. And reading builds it faster than almost anything else.
A University of Sussex study found that just 6 minutes of reading cut stress by 68%, more than music (61%), tea (54%), walking (42%), or video games (21%).
The effect is surprisingly physical. When you read, your nervous system shifts from fight-or-flight into rest-and-digest mode. Heart rate slows, breathing deepens, muscles release tension. The neuropsychologist who ran the study, Dr. David Lewis, described it as entering “an altered state of consciousness,” where focused imagination activates the part of your brain that tells your stress response to stand down.
A 2021 randomized trial tested this directly. Researchers split nearly 1,000 people into two groups: read a book in bed for seven nights, or don’t. After one week, 42% of readers reported better sleep versus 28% of non-readers. Nothing else changed.
Now compare that with what 86% of Americans actually do before bed: scroll their phones for an average of 38 minutes a night. A 2025 Norwegian study of 45,000 university students found that every additional hour of screen time in bed raised insomnia risk by 59% and cut sleep by 24 minutes. A separate American Cancer Society study of 122,000 adults found daily screen use before bed was tied to 50 fewer minutes of sleep per week.
Screens hit you with two sleep-blockers at once. Blue light suppresses melatonin, the hormone that tells your body it’s time to sleep, by about 50% according to a Harvard study. But the bigger problem is the content itself. News, social media, work emails, all of it fires up your brain’s threat-detection mode and spikes your stress hormones right when they’re supposed to be at their lowest point of the day. A physical book sidesteps both problems entirely.
The long game matters too. A Yale study tracked 3,635 adults over 12 years and found that people who read 3.5+ hours per week were 23% less likely to die during the study. That worked out to living roughly 2 years longer, regardless of gender, wealth, or education. Books beat newspapers and magazines. The researchers pointed to deep, sustained reading creating a kind of workout for the brain that protects it as it ages.
So the 5-10 minutes he’s describing? The science says 6 minutes is the threshold where your body starts winding down. His brain is switching off its stress response and easing into a state where sleep becomes almost automatic.
Mayne@Tradermayne
Reading before bed has improved my sleep hygiene more than anything else. 5-10 mins of a book in bed and I’m out like a light no matter what I’ve done before.
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Wow. All of it began with a textbook bunt, down by 7, with nobody on. This is why baseball is beautiful. Texas got complacent, then fell apart.
11Point7 College Baseball@11point7
Houston's full wild come back from down 7-0 in the 5th to take down #2 Texas last night. 👀 Longhorns' bullpen issues continue.
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A peaceful morning in a quiet stretch of pine forest—a little timeline cleanse, courtesy of Congaree National Park.
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@adamhousley No doubt Pitino is one of the best, but you are correct, Wooden is the greatest.
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@andrew_flatt Consistency is King. How to get those bottom two metrics, paid version?
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First spring break since I can remember with no travel or hosting.
Just the daily routine (high step count, daily exercise, consistent sleep/wake schedule) and plenty of family time = nice bump in HRV.
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@WataugaOnline There was a large brush fire at the corner of 19E and Hwy 194 near Elk Park late this afternoon. Multiple units arriving as we drove past
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🔥 FIRE DANGER RISING in the High Country: High today → Very High Mon. → Very High/Extreme Tue. NC Forest Service urging all residents to postpone outdoor burning. Extended drought + dry fuels + breezy conditions = serious risk. Call 911 if fire escapes. wataugaonline.com/fire-danger-ri… #HighCountryNC #WildfireNC #ResistWildfireNC
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We lift @LMCcyclingteam throughout our competition seasons, and adjust the reps/sets/intensity according to the demands of our race schedule. Cyclists should be in the weight room year round, not just out of season.
Josh Straughan@JoshStraughan1
If your coaches are discouraging you from lifting during the season, there is a problem.
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@Brett_A_Taylor Except it was too close and he at least should have fouled it off. Right vs left, he saw it most clearly, and watched it through without being fooled. It was not a good pitch for him to hit because his bat head is flat, he could not have reached it. Bat head up, yes he could.
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One thing I don't wanna hear about this pitch is that it was "too close to take." You can't just transform your *CORRECT* understanding of the strike zone in an instant (against Mason Miller, lol) because you fear the ump may get it wrong. That's absurd.
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@Frank_Frangie @theblackgatsby_ I agree with you, it looks as if it does cross the plate a strike. Anyone who has caught (me) knows if you catch the pitch where he did, then it was quite a few inches above as it crossed the pate. Clear as day.
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@theblackgatsby_ I can’t for sure. But that’s honestly what I think.
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For baseball nerds like me, this is the problem I have with the ABS system coming to MLB.
It was a strike when it crossed the plate. And was correctly called. But by time catcher caught it, looked low.
ABS challenge system will call it a ball. I say let the umps call it.
FWIW.
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Strike. It’s where it crosses the plate, not where he catches it.
Robert Griffin III@RGIII
Dear baseball fans, this is a Safe Space. The USA and Dominican Republic just had one of the best baseball games of all time. Was this a ball or strike?
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“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
- Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:7-9
Where are the merciful, pure, and peacemakers?
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Here’s my reasonable explanation @PadresFanTakes. The catcher is respecting his pitcher over his friendship with the batter. The pitcher wants his catcher to be 100% focused on him and not distracted by anything, certainly not with his MLB teammate. Say hi instead, @adamhousley
Padres Thoughts@PadresFanTakes
Would love to hear a reasonable explanation why the US players keep doing this. It just makes them look like complete assholes & it doesn’t actually affect the game or fan opinion in any way to shake his hand.
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