Coach B Patel

"RDL" is in almost every program.

It doesn't mean the same movement in any two of them.

Why that's a real problem — not a semantics nitpick. 🧵

Follow one athlete through a career and count the coaches.

Youth club → middle school → high school → college → private → pro.

Fifteen, twenty, thirty coaches. And every one named the exercises differently.

The athlete pays for that. 🧵

An athlete looks athletic, moves okay in warm-up. So you load them.

3 weeks later the low back is barking.

You didn't get unlucky. You loaded a pattern they hadn't earned yet.

Here's the 5-gate system that prevents it 🧵

Your athlete's "weak" glute is almost never weak.

It's turned off.

And no amount of loading turns a muscle back on if the signal telling it to fire never arrives. 🧵

"Lactate threshold" vs "anaerobic threshold."

Coaches argue about these two terms constantly.

They're arguing about the wrong thing. 🧵