Podcast #32: Vertical Jump (Elastic vs. Force) with Joel Smith

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7 Takeaways: Thinking, Fast and Slow (in Sport Performance)

Concepts and quotes from the book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. 1) The Halo Effect “The tendency to like (or dislike) everything about a person – including things you have not observed” based on one trait or experience with them. Positive Halo Effect: Bill Belichick has a history of success. When he wears…

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Podcast #31: Athletic Performance and Hypertrophy with Kiefer

https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17298545/height/360/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?l=es “Most individuals already have insulin resistance in their skeletal muscle tissue by the time they’re 20-25.” “Basketball players… their endurance that they have to build up requires less carbohydrates…. a lineman, where they only have very short bursts of high output activity, so their diet is gonna be a little different.” “You have…

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Podcast #30: What is Health? with Kiefer

http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17268776/height/360/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296 What is Health? What is the Disease State? “Health, disease, and athletic performance…. that’s all literally the same processes going on in the body.” “In the modern world, everybody is somewhere in the disease state.” “Health is being as little in the disease state as possible.” “That’s the easiest way to define where…

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Podcast #29: Red Pill Strength & Conditioning with Brian Shrum

http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17239964/height/360/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-red-pill-strength-conditioning-with-brian-shrum/id1462537296?i=1000502760497 What is the point of Strength & Conditioning? “The language is wrong… Strength in what? Conditioning in what?” The starting point is wrong. Strength coaches start by thinking about “weights, med balls, resistance bands, resisted sprinting, and sled pushes.” “Let’s start with the sport first… how can the strength and conditioning world help…

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Podcast #28: Dunk Wisdom with Jordan Kilganon

http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17145281/height/360/theme/legacy/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296#episodeGuid=d82582d4-4fc4-4c9f-8962-070ef5e6f196 15 years old. “That’s when I started dunking every single day for 3-4 hours a day… somedays 30 minutes… somedays 9 hours… on hoops that were 7 feet to 9 feet.” Dunking every day: “I was so hooked to it and it was so clearly working.” Guys with knee problems. “They started dunking…

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Podcast #27: Individualizing Patellar Tendon Rehab with Dr. Ebonie Rio

Patellar Tendinopathy vs. Patellofemoral Pain “If someone is hopping and they’re getting a lot of valgus and a lot of knee bend, they’re much more likely to be Patellofemoral presentation than Patellar Tendinopathy. People with Patellar Tendinopathy won’t want to use their patellar tendon as a spring, they’ll hop really stiff.” “We’ve just completed some…

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Podcast #26: Left vs. Right Knee Pain with Neal Hallinan

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uVNPSGuI03HHf11klaPVl “If you’ve gotta pick a side, your pelvis is always gonna want to shift to the right more than it will to the left.” Because: Bigger right diaphragm Easier to stand and breathe on the right leg You simply have more muscle over there (on the right side) “We are all preferring to orient…

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Podcast #25: Tendon Q&A with Dr. Jason Eure

“Almost all of the conditions I’ll see for the pain states are gonna be reactive.” “The main element that needs to be in a tendon rehab program is gonna be specifically loading that tissue.” Isometrics vs. a traditional warm-up for pain decrease: “Some people get a good analgesic effect from isometrics. Some, it doesn’t really…

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Podcast #24: Healing Tendons with Dr. Keith Baar

Tendon Viscoelasticity “If I move quickly, the water doesn’t have time to move out as I pull on my tendon.” “If I move slowly, as I pull it, the water slowly seeps out of the collagen and now there’s less resistance, so there’s less stiffness.” Stiffness “If I’m really inactive… I’m gonna get both the…

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