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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 3453276, member: 2524"] Here is the link: [URL="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5717808/"]Imbalances in the Development of Muscle and Tendon as Risk Factor for Tendinopathies in Youth Athletes: A Review of Current Evidence and Concepts of Prevention[/URL]. Everyone knows the need to increase strength in all components of the body -- the weak link is the one that breaks the chain. But as I've often argued, the most likely problem is nutritional. All Americans, including athletes, commonly eat meat (muscle) but not connective tissue (which typically must be boiled in soups and stews to become digestible). With the decline of cooking, people have become severely deficient in the nutrients needed to make connective tissue, though they have plenty of the nutrients needed to make muscle. Your comments about the need to tend to tendon and ligament strength, and your concern over the pattern of connective tissue injuries at UConn in recent years including Akok and Polley this year, are reasonable. But it's not reasonable to object to the exercises Richie Springs was doing. Kettlebell swings, properly done as part of a larger exercise regimen, are not going to cause a back injury. Hopefully there are planks and other core exercises in the regimen. [/QUOTE]