Happy Monday! Here are a few thoughts bouncing around in my head after a week of reading, podcasts and other continuing ed. Enjoy!

1. Traditionally our work in the weight room is vertical – we clean, we snatch and we squat. Traditionally our work in the weight room is moving weights slow. Yet sport/sprinting/skating is very horizontal. Sport is played fast. Explore the horizontal plane more. Sprint more.
2. Hard work, humility and honesty are what all the successful teams and organizations have in common
3. Can we ever be completely confident that we will prevent all knee/ACL injuries? Nope. But learning to land properly is a great place to start.
4. Contrary to popular belief, you can develop max strength doing sub-max work. We live in the 75-85% range with most our strength work and continue to get stronger.