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๐Ÿ“ˆ Helping elite athletes own their data and development |๐Ÿ“ฑ A front office in the palm of your hand | โšพ๏ธ Trusted by 50+ professional players | #AchieveMore

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4APP Sports
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Spencer Strider put up incredible numbers last year, despite it only being his rookie season. His warm-up routine was no doubt part of his success ๐Ÿ… Should you do Spencer Striderโ€™s pregame warm-up?
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@4APP_Sports
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A thread on the Spencer Turnbull ( @spencerturnbull ) no hitter. The best executed sequence of the night was his last one, which is impressive in its own right. Even more impressive that it came after a potential game ending double play. The ability to lock back in is ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป
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โ›ฝ๏ธ 5 Things you can learn from Eric Simโ€™s ( @kingofjuco ) 95 or Die Challenge to throw harder and stay healthyโ›ฝ๏ธ Eric gained 9 mph in 151 days in 2020. Thatโ€™s no easy feat. His journey highlights what true hard work isโ€ฆ
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Both Spencer Strider and Trevor Bauer throw exceptionally hard for a number of reasonsโ€” let's take a deeper dive ๐Ÿค
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Weโ€™re at the point in the season where organizations are starting to worry about pitcher and hitter workloads. Coming off of a shortened season in 2020, or no season in 2020 if youโ€™re a minor leaguer, you may see your pitch counts and playing time decrease. The fear is that more
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Sleep extension (attempting to get 10 hours in bed per night) has been shown to increase shooting percentages in basketball players close to 10%. If throwing a ball towards a small target very accurately is important for your sport, thatโ€™s a quick way to improve 10% over the next
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3 years
The data age is here to stay in baseball, but most data is collected on field. Quantifying what happened is great, but the ability to explain why is more powerful. That requires collecting data on yourself off the field every day. For example, do you remember what you did the 3
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3 years
Pitcher command is important to track and quantify. Charts like this can help both the catcher and pitcher improve at getting the ball to the desired spot. Itโ€™s easy to look at a heat map and say โ€œthrow it in the greenโ€ but that doesnโ€™t tell you how to do it. Hereโ€™s an example of
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3 years
Itโ€™s no secret how important sleep is for the athlete๐Ÿ˜ด... The image below is a graph of the times at which one of our clients has gone to bed throughout the season. With complex travel schedules and inconsistent game times, itโ€™s no wonder why this plot is all over the place.
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High-level tools should not be reserved for only the highest levels of Sports. That is what we believeโ€ฆ And that is why we made an app! Introducing 4APP V.1 โ€” featuring our proprietary Command Tracker.. For both โšพ๏ธ and ๐ŸฅŽ! Live now: #AchieveMore
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How do you prime your body the night before you pitch? There are easy steps you can take that drive big results ๐Ÿ“ˆ Try these 3๏ธโƒฃ tips ๐Ÿ‘‡
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We are 4APP (4 Achieving Peak Performance), the first independent front office operating on behalf of individual athletes, not the clubs that employ them. In addition to the analytical services offered by a front office, we give our athletes the freedom to utilize wearable
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Consider these graphs from one of our athletes. A couple of key points. 1) first and foremost, if you arenโ€™t collecting this data, you canโ€™t produce the insights. But players should not be giving this data to the teams because it will be used against them at some point. We exist
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๐Ÿ’ค Sleep Toolkit ๐Ÿ’ค 5 free ways to fall asleep faster 1. Consistent sleep & wake times 2. Hot shower before bed 3. AM & PM sun exposure + no screen time 1 hr before bed 4. Breathwork (ie. box breathing) 5. Reading before bed Optional: Magnesium + L-Theanine 30 mins before bed
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๐Ÿšจ New Features Unlocked in 4APP Sports For All Users ๐Ÿšจ Becoming a Data-Driven athlete is not an easy process. At 4APP, we aim to change the perception around using data to better one's self and lower the barrier of entry so that any athlete can #AchieveMore
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Should you add this? Yes, weโ€™re big fans of RPR! Itโ€™s an easy way to activate certain body parts without creating muscular fatigue ๐Ÿ”‹ Here are some RPR areas you can focus on ๐Ÿ‘‡
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2 years
Why do our athletes throw โ›ฝ๏ธ? They have elite lead leg blocks.
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3 years
PSA: Alcohol is killing your sleep and recovery! ๐Ÿบ Grab a glass of water ๐Ÿ’ง and read on to learn why, and some best practices you can applyโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿค• 5 Ways to Avoid Throwing Pain ๐Ÿค• 1. 8-10 hours in bed per night 2. Frequent soft tissue work 3. Full body dynamic warm-up 4. Nutrient dense pre-game snack & diet 5. Proper workload management 6. Efficient mechanics/sequencing
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๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Add THESE to improve your mechanics ๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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Should you throw or lift the day after pitching? โšพ๏ธ What should you be doing to optimize your post-pitching recovery? ๐Ÿค” As with most things, this is individual to the athlete ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ“ˆ Read on for information that will guide you in crafting the best routine for yourself
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โš ๏ธ If you lose ROM after you pitch โš ๏ธ Here are 2๏ธโƒฃ focuses you must have in your throwing recoveryโ€ฆ
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3 years
If you ask a pitcher how their last bullpen went, youโ€™ll likely get an answer like โ€œgoodโ€ or โ€œbadโ€. Thatโ€™s mostly useless info. If you ask a 4APP pitcher how their last bullpen went, theyโ€™ll probably show you a chart like this that quantifies exactly how it went. If you ask a
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โ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธ An Athleteโ€™s Guide to Caffeine โ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธ A thread on how to leverage caffeine to perform better in your sport and enhance cognitive performance while avoiding negative effects on sleep and energy.
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โš™๏ธ Mechanical Principles with 4APP โš™๏ธ Part 7 - The "Spiral" Phase
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๐Ÿ”‹ Recover like a Superhuman Toolkit ๐Ÿ”‹ 1. Sleep 2. High protein intake 3. Cold exposure 4. Active recovery 5. Collagen/Creatine 6. True rest Optional: Red Light Therapy + Marc Pro
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Chasing maximum mobility is not the key to throwing harderโ€ฆ Let us explain ๐Ÿ‘‡
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5 Mobility Exercises For Overhead Athletes โšพ๏ธ
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๐Ÿ’ช Bulletproof Your Forearm ๐Ÿ’ช
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โฌ‡๏ธ Reduce your elbow pain with THESE โฌ‡๏ธ Poor tissue quality is a common cause of throwing pain. Here are 3 overlooked soft tissue areas and simple ways you can address them: (Refer to the Xโ€™s in each photo for specific trigger points)
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The Ultimate Pre-Workout Cocktail ๐Ÿธ Improve your power, energy, reaction time, and recovery ๐Ÿ’ช Hereโ€™s what you needโ€ฆ
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โšพ Use THESE to reset โšพ
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1๏ธโƒฃ RPR Strider starts his routine with RPR: a system of breathing & soft tissues that resets your body from โ€œsurvivalโ€ mode to โ€œperformanceโ€ mode ๐Ÿ’ช He uses RPR to activate his glutes, hamstrings, and abs.
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๐Ÿ’ช The Bench Press ๐Ÿ’ช Baseball's most controversial exercise. Should pitchers include it in their training? Let's break it down ๐Ÿงต
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Let's talk about Readiness Scores ๐Ÿšจ
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๐Ÿ”ฅ What These Two Pitchers Do Exceptionally Well ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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2 years
The Marc Pro is a very effective recovery device, but it costs $700. If you read this thread, you'll be able to turn yourself into a โ€œHuman Marc Pro,โ€ for free ๐Ÿ˜Ž You can achieve this through active recoveryโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ‘‡ You need to know this ๐Ÿ‘‡
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3 years
For the next few months, we will be picking a topic and focusing our posts around it for several weeksโ€ฆ. First up is Sleep! ๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ’ค
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Saunas are recovery amplifiers, but are difficult to come across ๐Ÿง–โ€โ™‚๏ธ Just because you donโ€™t have a sauna doesnโ€™t mean you canโ€™t get the benefits! If you read this thread, you can do that in the comfort of your home ๐Ÿ 
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1 year
โšพ๏ธ Did you know THIS? โšพ๏ธ
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3 years
Average WAR by fastball rpm so far this season. With 1 WAR being valued around 9 million, you can see why pitchers would want to increase their spin rate. Largely explains MLBs sticky situation.
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3 years
No hitters are often a combo of well executed pitches and happy accidents. Happy accidents can be a combo of bad decision and good command, good decision bad command, or bad decision bad command. Here are some examples of bad decision good command.
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Donโ€™t let THIS be the reason you miss out on your goals โŒ
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๐Ÿš„ How to Throw a Gyro Slider ๐Ÿš„
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3 years
Big leaguers have impeccable command. They almost never miss their spot, right? ๐ŸŽฏ Wrong ๐Ÿ˜ณ Weโ€™ve all heard that statement, but it just isnโ€™t true. So how close do they actually get? ๐Ÿง
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Lets dive into 2๏ธโƒฃ things that make both Gerrit Cole and Gavin Williams exceptionally hard throwers. Weโ€™re going to focus on how they set themselves up to sustain upper 90s FBsโ€ฆ how they execute the โ€œDriftโ€ and โ€œDropโ€ phases effectively โญ
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Both Jhoan Durรกn and Brusdar Graterol are among the league's hardest throwers with their fastballโ€™s averaging 101.8 mph and 98.6 mph, respectively ๐Ÿคฏ
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2 years
We asked one of our pros for 3 pieces of advice for players starting their college season, hereโ€™s what he said:
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โŒ Most players do this โŒ
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Weโ€™ve seen athletes improve their performance when they address both their mind & body in their pregame routine. Clayton Kershaw is known for his nasty 12-6 CB. Heโ€™s also devoted significant effort to creating his start-day protocol ๐Ÿ’ช Should you do Kershawโ€™s game day routine?
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Stuff, the combo of velo and movement, will always be more important than command. This surely wasnโ€™t an elite command game, as you can see. Many pitches missed the intended location by more than a foot. But that doesnโ€™t matter when you have good stuff and some luck on your side.
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๐Ÿšจ 4APP Throwing Warm-up ๐Ÿšจ The ideal throwing warm-up is built around your needs as a thrower and body type โšพ๏ธ It should, however, contain these 5๏ธโƒฃ componentsโ€” typically in this order:
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What if you were able to significantly improve your game or training metrics in only a couple of weeks? ๐Ÿ“ˆ Sounds too good to be true? Well, it isnโ€™t! ๐Ÿงต This is just some of the power of being a data driven athlete ๐Ÿงต
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This athlete changed 1 thing and immediately saw a 40% increase in their Recovery Score โšก๏ธ Any idea what it was? This thread could change your career.
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Think about the best player in 2001. Think about their attributes. Their speed. Their power. Their velocity. Their breaking pitches. Etc. now put those attributes in todayโ€™s game. Is that player still a big leaguer? Sure. Is that player an elite big leaguer? No. But the human
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๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ 3 Cues To Deadlift More ๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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days before your best game? What time did you go to sleep and wake up? What time did you eat? What training and recovery did you do on those days? The people who know these answers will be the best players in the future. Shouldnโ€™t you start now?
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2 years
Mobility is important for a pitcherโ€™s ability to create velocity and stay healthy ๐Ÿ”ฅ But most people arenโ€™t maximizing its benefits. ๐Ÿงต Avoid these 3 mobility mistakes ๐Ÿงต
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Trying to gain weight? ๐Ÿš Want to recover better? ๐Ÿฅ‘ Want to PERFORM better? ๐Ÿฅฉ Tracking nutrition just might hold that key for you! ๐Ÿ”‘ Here are different degrees that you can track nutrition atโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ”ฅ Relievers need to try this ๐Ÿ”ฅ Most pitchers remember a time when a coach told them to get hot in <5 minutesโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿšจ NEW FEATURE FOR ALL USERS ๐Ÿšจ
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If this is your Velocity v. Command chart, do you really throw 90 mph? In this example, the athlete loses significant Command as they jump up to 100% intent. ๐Ÿงต A thread on the importance of training at max intent ๐Ÿงต
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"My arm hurts, but throwing with pain is normal." No, it's not โŒ Here are 4 steps you should take to manage your workload to maximize your arm health:
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This is insane! ๐Ÿ˜ณ
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๐Ÿ‘‡ Add THESE to your routine ๐Ÿ‘‡
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3 months of intensive throwing and lifting could change your careerโ€ฆ ๐Ÿงต Should you be playing summer baseball? A thread ๐Ÿงต
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Pitchers, catchers, fielders: have scouting report cards to check whenever. Hitters: โ€œheโ€™s got fastball change curve slider, mixes early. More change to lefties but sometimes to righties. Fastball runs, sometimes cuts. Get him up middle over the plateโ€ ๐Ÿคฎ๐Ÿคฎ Makes you think...
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๐Ÿ‘‡ You may not realize THIS about your mechanics ๐Ÿ‘‡
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โš™๏ธ Mechanical Principles with 4APP โš™๏ธ Part 1 - The "Drift" Phase
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Soreness doesnโ€™t have to derail your next outing!
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Why Our Athletes Use The Pure Torque #baseball #Training
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The best hydration supplement youโ€™ve never heard of: Glycerol๐Ÿšฐ Hereโ€™s how you can use it to increase your performanceโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ“Œ Save this to train like the pros ๐Ÿ“Œ
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Our giveaway winner, @zachgoberis , enjoying the Mets-Rockies game last week ๐Ÿ“ˆ We're glad you guys had a good time!
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โ€ผ๏ธ Do this before you throw โ€ผ๏ธ How would you feel if you were looser? This 1 minute trick uses your eyes to increase your range of motion by 5-15 degrees and can effect every limb! All you need is a pen to guide your eyes ๐Ÿ‘€
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Subjective metric tracking is the best place to start one's data collection. Easy to track consistently, with tremendous resulting insights! ๐ŸšจWith that, we are excited to launch a new feature in our public app A daily subjective health-metric questionnaire (aka HQ)๐Ÿšจ
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๐Ÿ˜ˆ Try THIS ๐Ÿ˜ˆ
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You're not breathing correctly after your games, workouts, and other training And it's hurting your recovery. Luckily we have a solution for you, and it takes less than 5 minutes ๐Ÿ’จ
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โšก๏ธ 3 sprinting drills to level up your acceleration โšก๏ธ
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Protocol: Cold Exposure (Shower) ๐ŸงŠ๐ŸงŠ Research shows that cold exposure has many benefits: Improvement to your body's response to stress & Hormone optimization โฌ†๏ธ Motivation, Focus, Metabolism, Sleep, Mood โฌ‡๏ธ Inflammation Here's how you can get started using your shower:
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๐Ÿ”ฅ Ready to throw harder? ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Letโ€™s talk about glucose!
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Eating the right snack before a workout helps you lift more and put on more muscle ๐Ÿซ
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If sleep is this impactful on the human body in general, shouldnโ€™t you be prioritizing sleep as a professional athlete? 4APP athletes track their sleep and our analysts use that data to predict on field performance to show the athlete EXACTLY why it matters and how to improve it
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The more we study sleep and sleep patterns, the more we discover its long-term impact on memory. Read more on @nytimes here:
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๐Ÿงต 5 Hip Mobility Exercises You Can Do w/ a Resistance Band๐Ÿงต
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๐Ÿ“ˆ THIS idea will help you ๐Ÿ“ˆ
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๐Ÿ”ฅ 5 Soft Tissue Areas To Hit Before Throwing ๐Ÿ”ฅ 1. Pec Major/Minor 2. Lat/Teres Major 3. Forearm 4. Scalenes & SCM 5. Bicep
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This ๐ŸŽฅ angle on a 3100+ RPM slider ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜
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โœ… Rest Day Checklist โœ… Lower your stress levels ๐Ÿง˜ Quality nutrition + hydration ๐Ÿฅฉ ๐Ÿ’ง Sleep & sunshine ๐Ÿ’ค โ˜€๏ธ Movement ๐Ÿšถ Check the caption for the mistake that is killing your recovery ๐Ÿ‘‡
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And hereโ€™s an example of getting away with a good decision bad command combo
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Want to protect your UCL? Sleep more. Increased sleep duration is associated with increased grip strength ๐Ÿ’ช Increased grip strength is associated with decreased elbow injury risk. #AchieveMore
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๐ŸŒ€ Which should you throw? ๐Ÿงน
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Most athletes are undersized. To put on muscle, you have to eat! ๐Ÿงต Boost your performance with these weight gain tips ๐Ÿงต
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An athleteโ€™s guide to Creatine supplementation ๐Ÿ’ช Hereโ€™s a crash course in the worldโ€™s most researched supplement ๐Ÿ‘‡
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๐ŸงตSleep Thread๐Ÿงต ๐Ÿ’ค๐Ÿ’ค๐Ÿ’ค An Athleteโ€™s Guide to Naps ๐Ÿ’ค๐Ÿ’ค๐Ÿ’ค Should athletes take naps? The words of this wise Jedi master are applicable yet again ๐Ÿ‘‡
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โšก๏ธ These 4 things will increase your velo in-season โšก๏ธ
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๐Ÿšจ Use THIS force ๐Ÿšจ
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Youth players, how do you get better? ๐Ÿค” You compare yourself to the pros! Professional players track thingsโ€ฆ youth players do not. What we measure, we improve ๐Ÿ“ˆ-- thatโ€™s why we love to track as much as we can
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๐Ÿค” To sweep or not to sweep ๐Ÿค”
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