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  • Coaching Conversation with Andy McCloy

    Coaching Conversation with Andy McCloy

    I had a chance to speak with a great human being, Andy McCloy, about some of his training challenges and issues associated with his new hips (we have this in common). We touched on a lot of topics in a 30-minute conversation. Watch the video or listen to the podcast.

    Topics of Conversation:

    • My benefits from drinking from The Fountain of Youth (what?!)
    • The secondary consequences of hard, intense training
    • Intrathoracic, intraabdominal, and intramuscular pressure
    • Muscle hypertrophy and gym strength
    • Genetic influences on adaptation and muscle hypertrophy
    • Self-assessment of movement and adaptability in the gym
    • The difference between a deadlift and the squat for compression and expansion
    • How heavy lifting creates a compressive, concentric strategy
    • The limitations of breathing exercises for big, strong humans
    • Are leg extensions okay for muscle hypertrophy?
    • A mature mindset for training
    • The importance of KPI’s (key performance indicators) for self-assessment

     

     

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  • Think Differently… How to Perform Knee Special Tests More Effectively in Seconds

    Think Differently… How to Perform Knee Special Tests More Effectively in Seconds

    Knee special tests vary in their sensitivity, specificity, and usefulness. In the acute situation, they may provide some useful information to guide decision-making for further diagnostic testing if symptoms, behavior, or progress warrant such.

    With practice, the execution of some of the knee special tests can be simplified to a great degree to reduce the intrusiveness and time investment.

    While they can be done quickly, take the time to be effective. Also, use a battery of tests rather than relying on a singular test for decision-making.

    Demonstrated:
    McMurray Test for meniscus
    Varus and Valgus Stress for medial collateral and lateral collateral ligament
    Anterior Drawer for ACL injury (modify the angle for Lachman’s Test)
    Knee hyperextension

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  • Think Differently… About How You Measure Hip Flexion

    Think Differently… About How You Measure Hip Flexion

    Traditionally, measuring hip flexion range of motion provides only information about how the femur moves in the hip joint.

    If you think differently, hip flexion provides information about the existence of anterior pelvic tilt, sacral movement, lumbar spine movement, and breathing strategy.

    This video guides you toward how you can think differently about how to measure hip flexion range of motion whether you work in physical therapy, athletic training, or fitness training.

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  • The Best Shoes for Improving Squat Depth and Squatting More Weight

    The Best Shoes for Improving Squat Depth and Squatting More Weight

    In this Padawan Lesson video, we address many common questions associated with choosing best shoes for squatting.

    • Do you really have an ankle mobility problem?
    • Do my shoes limit my mobility?
    • How can you increase squat depth?
    • What does an Olympic weightlifting shoe with an elevated heel do?
    • Are heels elevated squats bad?
    • Why do powerlifters use Chuck Taylor’s for lifting?
    • How do my shoes influence my propulsive strategy?
    • What shoes are better for agility?
    • Do my shoes change my feet?
    • What is the best heel to toe ratio for my shoes?
    • What places me at risk for an ankle sprain?
    • Does a concentric or eccentric global strategy allow me to move better?

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  • Weekly Update and Q & A for October 20, 2019

    Weekly Update and Q & A for October 20, 2019

    Weekly Update:

    Time was limited because of The Intensive VIII wrapping up last weekend, but I’m back with a new Q & A this week!

    Here’s the last Q & A if you missed it

    Here’s the video showing a manual approach to increasing knee flexion

    I’ve also been busy on Instagram for The 16% and posted a few IGTV segments, so check those out.

    Topics for this week’s Q & A:

    • In your model are the terms compressed and expanded used mutually exclusive or are they used in combination to describe strategies at different segments? Or does it depend if discussing “normal” vs compensatory strategies?
    • Could you discuss ideal / non compensatory foot position, and its relationship to inhalation and exhalation in different phases of gait and how, or if, we can potentially change compensatory foot mechanics with more proximal structures?
    • Is there a good resource for the lay person on what sinovial fluid is, and how the body utilizes it? Great video on knee flexion, I’m just wondering how my body could make such a mistake on where to store the fluid that would cause such discomfort.
    • Thoughts on psychedelics laying new road maps for altering neurotransmitters most commonly taken routes, similarly allowing us to alter our relationship with gravity and atmospheric pressure to reinstate a preferred posture?
    • Who or what are the 16%?
    • What are your thoughts on training barefoot and when, if, and how it could be practical?
    • What books or publications would you recommend that would aid in a deeper understanding of disordered breathing patterns/rib cage compensatory strategies and their effect on distal mechanics, and gait mechanics and how it relates to early to late propulsion?
    • Would you give your thoughts on strategies to improve the front rack position for FS/cleans as it relates to the ER/IR/ER arc? Do you think it would be more effective to train this position specifically, or utilize shoulder above and below it where you are more biased into ER to begin with and drive it from there?
    • What’s the best place to learn from you!?? Products, courses, just keep listening?
    • Bill can you discuss the position of the spine when you are trying to bias movements towards IR or ER. Should we be putting the spine into some extension as well? Are we just trying to keep the cylinder stacked? Does the IR/ER ideas refer to just the limbs?

     

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