Good morning. Houston names a new Olympic sports performance director, Mizzou adds two former Tigers to their strength staff, researchers find that brief bursts of vigorous activity dramatically reduce cancer incidence, and a dynamometry study shows why hand-held testing underestimates force. Let's get into it...
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🐾 Houston Promotes Houston (House-ton)
Cory Houston, who spent three years as coordinator of sports performance for Houston baseball and women's golf, has been promoted to director of sports performance for Olympic sports.
Houston will oversee sport performance programming, research, and education across all Olympic sports while continuing to work with baseball and golf. He'll also lead the intern program and develop the current staff. During his time with baseball, Houston helped Antoine Jean return from Tommy John surgery to win Big 12 Pitcher of the Year in 2025. Read More
🐯 Mizzou Adds Two Former Tigers to S&C Staff
Missouri football added former Tigers Zaviar Gooden and Tre'Vez Johnson as assistant directors of football athletic performance.
Gooden played at Mizzou from 2009-2012, was a third-round NFL Draft pick in 2013, and spent the last four years at LSU as an assistant development coach. Johnson was a key secondary player in 2023-24, helping the Tigers win both the Cotton Bowl and Music City Bowl. He finished his career with 64 total tackles, three pass deflections, and an interception. Read More
🧐 Why Manual Muscle Testing Keeps Missing the Mark
A new blog on anchored dynamometry lays out why traditional manual muscle testing (MMT) and hand-held dynamometry fall short for assessing true strength.
Using side-by-side testing, the authors show that unfixed testing is heavily influenced by the tester—leading to force leakage, high variability, and large underestimates of strength, especially in stronger athletes. When the dynamometer is anchored, force output is higher, signals are more stable, and results are far more repeatable across sessions and testers. Read More
🏃 Just 3-4 Minutes of Vigorous Activity May Cut Cancer Risk
A study of 22,398 nonexercising adults in JAMA Oncology found that brief bursts of vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA)—like fast walking or stair climbing—were associated with lower cancer incidence.
As little as 3.4 minutes per day was linked to a 17-18% reduction in total cancer risk, while 4.5 minutes daily was associated with a 31-32% reduction in physical activity-related cancers. Over 92% of VILPA occurred in bouts under 1 minute, suggesting that even very short bursts of intensity throughout the day may offer significant cancer prevention benefits. Read More
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