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Good morning. A middle school teacher argues the weight room is the best classroom, a 37-year-old completed 433 kilometers across four sports in 18.5 hours, and why Curt Cignetti brought back a familiar face to Indiana's strength staff. Let's get into it...
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📖 The Weight Room Is the Best Classroom in a School
Alexander Han, a middle school social studies teacher and strength coach in Nassau County, NY, argues that some of the most powerful learning happens in the weight room. "There is no extra credit in the weight room. No one can charm their way through a missed rep, negotiate their way out of fatigue, or blame the system when the bar does not move." Students develop accountability, delayed gratification, self-regulation, and resilience.
For many students, strength training becomes their first genuine encounter with a growth mindset. Han applies weight room principles to his classroom: corrections are direct and matter of fact ("That wasn't enough depth—reset and go again" becomes "That claim isn't supported—add stronger evidence"). The standard doesn't move. Students do. Read More
⛽︎ Discipline-Specific Feeding Dictates Carb Delivery
Andy Galpin shared an interesting case study: a 37-year-old amateur athlete completed the Swedish Classic tetrathlon—316 km cycling, 3 km swimming, 84 km roller-skiing, and 30 km trail running—in 18.5 hours with helicopter transfers between venues. He planned 1,636g of carbs at 90g/hr but only hit 1,051g at 57g/hr.
The sport dictated what he could eat: cycling 65g/hr, swimming 0g/hr (can't eat while swimming), roller-skiing 46g/hr, running just 21g/hr. Glucose stayed stable through the first three disciplines. Hypoglycemia only appeared during the final run when fueling collapsed. Galpin's takeaway: "Discipline-specific feeding opportunities—not generic hourly targets—determined actual carbohydrate delivery. The sport dictates the fuel strategy." Read More
🏈 Inside Indiana's Strength Staff Addition
After Derek Owings left for Tennessee, Curt Cignetti brought back Tyson Brown—someone he'd worked with nearly a decade earlier at Elon. Brown spent three weeks at Elon in 2017 before Mike Leach called him back to Washington State for four times the money. "Our kids at Elon loved him," Cignetti said. Now Brown is back, this time at Indiana. Early reports from Memorial Stadium have been positive. "I've gotten great feedback from the players and staff on him," Cignetti said. Brown was previously the head strength coach at UConn and Mississippi State. Read More
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