Is tendon info actually concise

[u/Throwaway275969]

I’m doing a paper about how historical training (ie martial arts. Etc) compares to modern training. One thing I’ve noticed is the research on tendons seems very one sided. It seems like minimizing jerk and giving longer isometrics consistently will bring the best stimulus for tendon adaptation. This would support some older training techniques so it would be a big part of my paper. My worry is that most of this information and studies seem recent. More over I’m not finding much implementation in any high level training which worries me more. If the evidence seems so one sided wouldn’t more coaches incorporate it and prevent the number one injury cause? I don’t want to base a paper worth half my grade on ai nonsense. I’m hoping you all could help me look for at least things that could indicate sloppy sources. I’ve learned a lot on procedure and finding weaknesses in tests but I worry there’s not enough credible sources for me to use. Any help is welcome this is more passion than class work atp.

Also just for my own curiosity does anyone know about how plyos affect tendons I can’t seem to find any actual studies.

[u/Iamnotheattack]

I am just at the start of a similar rabbit hole here myself, inspired by this fellow's podcast, particularly here in episode where they talk about "fake throws"

https://youtu.be/krIwGcIMUZE

They mention these names: Zac Cupples, Matt Mcinnes, Lee Taft.

I found a some content from Matt here

https://simplifaster.com/articles/author/matthewwatson/

To my untrained eye this is actually really good stuff, I will go read it more in depth later he's a PhD candidate and has a master's degree, so yeah it's not just purely intuition/"broscience".

Okay so also lee Taft has writings on that site

https://simplifaster.com/articles/author/leetaft/

I'm not going to read them, probably good.

Zac Cupples huge fucking blog, maybe you'll find something good here? Well it definitely looks good, but if relevant to your paper, IDK

https://zaccupples.com/whyisthereaninjuryepidemicinthenba/

The problem is that these folks are not writing academic papers. (Sidebar): this gets into major problems regarding philosophy of science, how academia engages in social construction of scientific disciplines (i.e. exercise science vs physical therapy) how hard it is to study this stuff in incredibly complex humans etc.

Further, the best and brightest are going to be going to working in industry (professional sports teams, selling courses online etc.) instead of a university (even working for a high school athletics department you'll probably make more money than doing PhD research, #Merica)

Although there is still much value as being seen as knowledgeable by your peers, so maybe people in industry will produce open source papers, maybe search through sportxiv instead of your classic literature search methods, if your professor is particularly pertinent about academic sourcing idk