Welcome to the monthly roundup for Absolute Sport Science! If you’ve been busy programming treatment and training, analyzing Point A → Point B data, or just busy with the pace of life in 2026, this is your one-stop to catch up on everything we covered in September. We’ve got summaries + links to all our Tuesday written posts and Sunday video deep-dives (exclusive to paid subscribers). This is all our month’s highlights—straight to your inbox.
Whether you’re a free subscriber or a paid member, these recaps are designed to keep you informed and inspired—to keep you getting better at becoming a programming strategist!
Tuesday Posts: Programming Insights
Tuesdays are all about actionable, evidence-based articles to level up your programming knowledge. September was a field month—we took Biological Point B into the Penn State Football building in-season, then watched the Level of Competition prove the point when Caleb Williams' hamstring met a demand his biology had never been programmed for. Here's what we explored:
September 8, 2026: The Hidden Sensor Network of the Medial Elbow (UCL) & Why It Matters
RSI is an output measure—it tells you how the system performed, not why, or what to treat and train to change it.
Three cadaveric studies map mechanoreceptors concentrated at the bony attachments and anterior bundle of the UCL—exactly where loading demand is highest.
Fast-adapting Pacinian and slow-adapting Ruffini receptors in the same tissue give rate-dependent stiffening a physical mechanism.
The conjugation point: stimulating the ligament’s nerve drives the forearm muscles that resist valgus load in milliseconds—bottom-up becoming top-down, inside the elbow. It’s the anatomy underneath July’s leading indicator at the elbow and baseball’s UCL problem.
September 15, 2026: What’s the Intent Here? Because the Language is Programming.
Neurological vs. biological is the right split for Point B—but read the circle by row and maximal effort and dynamic effort land on both sides.
On the dynamic effort row, a reactive strength rep and a speed-strength rep can look identical. Intent is the only thing that tells you which one you trained.
Load management doesn’t close the in-season neurological-biological asymmetry—it magnifies it. Neurology recovers from rest. Biology detrains.
Paid section: the five-question intent audit we run before anything goes into a program.
September 22, 2026: Penn State, Mark Latash and the UCM Hypothesis
Penn State’s innovation runs from Dan Riley’s manual resistance in 1977 to Zatsiorsky’s Biomechanics Lab to Dr. Mark Latash’s Motor Control Lab.
Reid Kagy brought us in during the season to present Biological Point B and the number one limiting constraint on high performance: the Reactive Strength Deficit.
Latash’s forty-year question—what the nervous system holds constant and what it leaves free—is the same question every programmer has to answer before writing a set. That’s the hidden layer.
September 29, 2026: The Caleb Williams Scramble That Revealed the NFL’s Reactive Strength Deficit
No one touched him. His hamstring went short to full length in a fraction of a second, then planted on a rain-soaked field it had never learned to damp against.
Luck set the conditions. The tissue’s capacity decided the outcome—the same NFL reactive strength problem we’ve been tracking for years.
Four games on the sideline = $2.3 million in reactive strength dead money for the Bears.
Paid section: the phased programming strategy—IIC progression toward length, HIMAs and OIMAs, and Bulgarian dosing on the biology.
If the Caleb Williams breakdown made sense, you’re already thinking like a programmer—The Art & Science of Programming is where Point A, Point B, and the reactive strength framework get put into your hands as a strategy. Enroll now →
Sunday Paid Subscriber Videos
Sundays are reserved for our premium video content—in-depth breakdowns, Q&A sessions, and practical demos that bring the art and science to life. September’s run moved from the Dominican Republic to the paradigm problem itself, then to a Founders Meeting on training attention and a frame-by-frame NFL injury breakdown. If you’re not a paid subscriber yet, these are a great reason to upgrade!
The video companion to The Conjugate Edge #11. Jack Cecil fact-checked our Paul Skenes slide mid-presentation at Baseball As A Special Strength and took two claims off it. The model didn’t change—the noise came out and the signal got stronger. The line that stopped the room: only athletes at Neurological Point B will stagnate. Neurological stagnation and biological accommodation are different failure states calling for opposite interventions. The Halbert protocol, resistance rotation, and neurological volume dosing are below the paywall.
September 13, 2026: Neurological Abundance, Biological Scarcity
When we audit programming, we see almost entirely neurological work—a system built for powerlifters dropped into college football, the NFL, and MLB. The neural network gets exposed to every variable. The biology gets exposed to one. Every reactive strength injury you’re watching is that gap. We cover the 10% rule for neurological volume, going Bulgarian on the biology, tissue senescence in college football, and why reactive strength is the unfilled position in every organization.
September 20, 2026: John Baker Founders Meeting (Recording)
Former MLB catcher John Baker—Head Applied Mental Skills Coach for the Chicago Cubs, then VP of Performance for the Pittsburgh Pirates—joined our founding members to present Cognitive Conjugate: an emergent framework for the systematic training of attention as a trainable capacity. (Founding members only.)
September 27, 2026: Caleb Williams Reactive Strength Hamstrings Injury
The media is calling it non-contact, and it is. But the film shows something more specific—a bottom-up reactive strength injury, walked through frame by frame. A flood watch, a saturated grass field, and a tissue forced to self-organize against energy it had never seen. Why we think he can be back in three weeks, why “back” has to mean more than healed, and how Exercise 3 of our Reverse Hyper Program programs this exact scenario—built on the pendulum damping framework.
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Carry This Into October
Two ways to keep building on what September covered: the Reverse Hyper Program for the hamstring and spine damping work behind the Caleb Williams breakdown, and The Art & Science of Programming for the intent and Biological Point B framework running underneath everything else this month.
Thanks for being part of Absolute this month—see you next week for more programming insights. If you found value here, share this with a colleague who’s still load managing instead of programming the biology.