Henry Abbott
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I'm doing it with my hands a little bit, but if you like lift your big toe and you separately lift the little toes and like there's all these little muscles in the foot that you can strengthen.
So it's called toe yoga. Yeah, if you look up toe yoga, that's not really a PT recommendation that I've seen, but they do a ton of stuff. So, you know, if you think of our calf muscles, the kind of like, there's this kind of two lumpy muscles on the outside, that's the gastroc muscle.
Underneath it is the soleus and the post tib, a tibialis posterior.
They're just going to be like, I assume he knows what he's talking about because in the first five minutes he said tibialis posterior. And now I'm good, right?
So look up those muscles though. You want to exercise them. Like a lot of our exercises really work like what we consider those visible outer calf muscles, but it's those underneath ones that I'm telling you in the research from P3, it's like, it's a major recommendation. You want a lot more work capacity in the lower leg. They had me doing, I went through their procedure and have
my own suite of issues but like this is one of my things and i you know this would be jumping rope hopping back and forth over a dowel every kind of ply metric but you kind of build up into the bigger ones over time and at the same time you mix that in with like stand on one leg you know and raise up and down very slowly and if you can do 15 of those then you're cleared for like bigger contacts.
I was getting back to running after a back thing. I had to get to like, where I could really get to 15 slow raises before they let me start running.
So they're into, at P3, their recommendations are heavy on all of the muscles beneath the knee as a method to stiffen the ankle.
So that when your foot hits the ground to have your powerful foot, the Achilles is loaded.
So like you want to have, they call, they say to land toes up. It's like a little cue. It doesn't really mean you land your toes fully up, but that's, they say that you'll get your foot more on the ball.
No. Great question. They want you on the ball of your foot, but with your toes a little bit flexed up. Instead of being sloppy with a relaxed foot, they want your foot tense and loaded because they want to activate the spring of your Achilles.
They want it so that when your foot hits the ground, you're quickly, subconsciously, this beautiful system will be passing the force of landing on the ground into your glutes, into your butt. Let's kind of go up the chain. If it hits your toes, now we have a kind of slow process of rolling further down to the heel, like I mentioned. If you land on your heel, then you're getting this bony thing.
So you kind of want to be in the middle where all of these muscles in your foot are taking the force of landing.
And if you're doing that, if you think about it, if you jump rope like that on the ball of your foot, if you- Oh, on the ball of your foot.
Great question. So ultimately running the way you want to run where you're not going to have your knee hurt will come from figuring out hips or lower leg where there's some weakness or oddity. That's kind of a dumber like building muscle system. But then there's like the much more clever thing is this like
nervous system, sending a little electrical signals up and down, which kind of happens faster than we can think subconsciously. So when you're jumping these fast things, this is the reason the book is called Ballistic. That means like airborne, right? When you're doing these airborne things, you're engaging this like your brain to get better at landing.
to fire the systems that need to be fired in time. These little things happen in life where maybe you're walking down a mountain trail and you trip a little and you have to throw that foot out.
That could be a moment you would tear your ACL, or it could be a moment that you just go, bink, and on this thing, and you want to have your system practiced and being snappy with the good foot placement and the good knee over the toes and the hips over the knees.
They don't have a lot of recommendations at P3 for everybody, but that's one of them. Almost everybody who's in there gets some weightlifting recommended and some plyometrics. Some of the trainers make fun of the founding doctor, Marcus Elliot, because he just loves the plyometrics so much. To him, it's like everybody should be doing aggressive plyometrics. He wants you to.
What they do is in the first assessment, you can do it with a broomstick. They just lay a dowel on the ground and they put eight seconds on the clock and you have to put your feet parallel to the dowel and you hop back and forth sideways on two feet as many times as you can in eight seconds. There's a guy whose name is Sanford Spivey.
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