Podcast #138: Tendons with Taylor Starch

“You don’t really care about it until it starts hurting on yourself. And especially once starts hurting to the point where you do your normal bag of tricks and it doesn’t work, right? And that’s when you realize that we know a lot of stuff, especially in 2025, right? But we don’t understand most of…

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Podcast #137: Tendons with Alex Nelson

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000700933250 Isometrics: “It’s not magic and there’s going to be some people that I think respond really well. And I think other population that’s just not going to respond too well and can’t even make them worse.” “When programming for people, I don’t necessarily think about the tendon all that much. I think about the…

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Podcast #136: Gluteal and Rotator Cuff Tendons with Byron Miller

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000700292416 “During clinical [in PT school], I developed a raging case of elbow tendinopathy. It was because I was doing a lot of manual therapy, writing a lot of notes and lifting and doing jujitsu. And it was just way too much… I’m in PT school, but I didn’t know how to manage it.” Glute…

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Podcast #135: Tendons with Steven Sahyoun

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000699584854 Achilles that went on to rupture: “The biggest thing that stood out to me was I always struggled with plantar flexion on that side. Especially like getting end range plantar flexion and I was seeing a physio at the time and I had been wrestling for about six months on and off and I…

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Podcast #134: Metabolic Tendons with Derek Griffin

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000699327183 “We tend to see people with tendinopathy that are more sedentary. So they’re not typically the athletic populations and they’ll still develop tendinopathy. So common areas would be the gluteal tendons, the rotator cuff, the lateral elbow.” “I think we can get very sidetracked on pain mechanisms. And this isn’t just for tendinopathy. I…

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Podcast #133: Elbow Tendons with Mike Carroll

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000699196938 “I’ve had quad tendonitis and golfers and tennis elbow on both elbows. So I first got interested in tendons from damaging my own through training like a knucklehead in my early 20s with little regard for what I was doing to my body and not backing off.” “I can’t think of a single case…

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Podcast #132: Tendons with Falk Mersmann

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000699042161 “So basically all of tendon adaptation is strain mediated. That is the most important mechanical factor.” “Metabolic factors, they may play a role, of course, at a given amount of mechanical loading. But in comparison to mechanical loading, not as important. So it’s a minor factor.” “When the stimulus for the tendon is more…

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Podcast #131: Tendons with Peter Malliaras

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000698434316 “Basically we showed shockwave doesn’t work. And that was not good news for a lot of shockwave people. So we and that and it’s, a good, it’s a timely trial because there’s now pretty good evidence in the Achilles insertion that it doesn’t work when you add it to exercise. So when you add…

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Podcast #130: Tendons with Gerard McMahon

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000697939678 “When you work with athletes, probably frustration of mine is people focus a lot just on muscle and forget it’s part of a muscle tendon complex, a muscle tendon bone complex.” Tendon: “The tissue has its own metabolism. The cells need energy to renew the extracellular matrix and stuff like that so there’s an…

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Podcast #129: Circadian Rhythms with Karyn Esser

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000697660390 “A clock is basically a molecular timer. It’s found in every single cell in your body and it is conserved across our planet. So I don’t care whether you’re a plant or you’re a bacterium or whether you’re a fly or whether you’re a human. You have a 24 hour timer in all of…

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