Kyler Brown
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first heard May 2025
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So where she doesn't flare it up again, because we need her to have a nice, smooth progression. I'd rather her be really balanced and athletic and strong and feeling good on race day, not like a bunch of junk miles and that tendon in the knee starting to hurt her again and stuff like that.
That's a big part of this is when your coach is basically in contact with you every day as much as you want to help bend and twist and develop that formula. So where that person is actually encouraged to do it, they enjoy it, they like it. I've had people tell me, yeah, this core stuff makes sense, but I just hate getting on the floor. Okay, we got to pivot and change the program.
If I just try to convince you to do an exercise that you hate doing, it's not going to last. That's number one. Number two is we want to really mitigate the risks of injury. You get some momentum going on the psychological habit side and then, ugh, I pulled my hamstring. I'm devastated. So we got to get those foundations going. But then usually we look at the medical risk side.
So some people, the CPAT test was terrible. Their VO2 numbers are bad. In our society, you got to have a good heart. We want to get that off the table from a risk factor. So we'll probably really put that routine cardio in, in a manner in which we don't flare up the things that could create an injury. So one client we had recently, he didn't know it. He didn't bring it up.
He's never had leg or foot issues at all. But his testing, his calves, he's a big fall risk. His calves are crazy weak. His balance wasn't good because he didn't have strength. And he's definitely a high risk for an Achilles. How old is this person? 52. You wouldn't expect to see that in somebody so young.
Yeah, but he's just poured himself into his career and really successful, really smart, cool guy, but he just hasn't trained a lot of stuff. And he had kind of a health scare, which is what motivated him to like get organized. Let's get this stuff right. It was interesting to see his really successful analytical brain use that scare to be like, okay, I got to get sorted out.
You can see he operates his business the same way. Problem identification, what's the solution? Problem, solution, problem, solution. So with him, he didn't know he had any of these risk factors, but he is a textbook for having a fall or blown out his Achilles because of the weakness and the lack of capacity and strength he had.
Yeah, he's definitely in that bucket of he could have been, it's a little fear mongering, but like he wasn't set up to like having to change direction quickly or maybe trips off a curb after dinner in New York. He could have had something like that easily. Big guy too, so top heavy just like me, big tree fall hard.
So with him, he wasn't even aware of that weakness, but the last thing we're going to do is give him a running program. We got to design his CPET stuff and his VO2 max training and his zone two training around these inefficiencies with his body. And so the workout in the gym needs to link up perfectly with those risks and also what is the most important thing for him right now.
Oh yeah, a lot of people are overwhelmed, but what's been really nice is the data, but then the calibration. And so what's been really cool with some of our clients we've had for several months now is consistency is always the name of the game, especially when we're playing the long game like we are. And if someone's going on a two week vacation, we want to know where are you staying?
What does the gym look like? We will change your workout so that you can keep doing it while you're on vacation. And if you tell us, look, guys, I'm going to be really active in the day. I kind of want to decompress. I've been working in my basement garage really hard for three months. Great. Let's take care of the total human.
Let's give him a 30 minute small thing to where he can almost have that lightning of the mental load just decompressed. But he's still making gains and he's still building that up. That's what's been fun for me that I almost never got the chance to do, even though I wanted to with some of my athletes, because there would be so many variables in the way.
With this, if we get a video of your gym and we know, okay, they don't have a bench that goes to incline, but we do have TRX and they have a treadmill that goes to the incline, but they don't have a bike. We can change their workout to where they keep marching along and it's an agreeable way for them. And it's not just like, oh, I was on vacation.
I didn't work out for two weeks because you get muscle atrophy. If you don't work out for two weeks, we go backwards.
Yeah, I think the best way to answer that is more principle-based. So I think number one is we behave in a three-dimensional space. So this idea of only doing calf raises, my toes pointed straight ahead, insufficient. Because to your point, there's gonna be moments where my toes are out or one toe is out. So we wanna do all these strength exercises in multi-planes of motion.
And that doesn't mean even in a static position, but that's like a lunge, lunging to the side, lunging backwards. You want to train in a three-dimensional space, number one. So all of your training should account for that. If we're just doing bicep curls and calf raises, it's like I'm on these railroad tracks, but the minute you make me go sideways or rotate, it's trouble.
So three-dimensional, number one. Number two would be to get motor unit recruitment, to really make sure that those muscles are firing, you need to do really heavy loads or things that are really fast to get that nervous system to like wake up and respond. The problem with that is not a lot of us are ready for that. So what you usually start with is really long hold isometrics.
So we put you in these different positions and find ways to resist that and pull and create stiffness and remodel those tendons. So we're essentially making those parts ready to start going into the danger zone that is explosive powerful movement. I shouldn't say danger zone as much as I should say like a higher ask. Yeah, risk zone. So heavy overcoming isometrics, they call them.
One of my favorites is that mid-thigh pull. It's kind of a standard in the sports science world where you have a bar and you basically calibrate the machine to where the bar is about the mid-thigh and it's almost like the very top of a deadlift and you just pull, but the bar doesn't get to move.
And the sensory input is like the force decks and they're measuring your balance, your force and all these other cool metrics. But holding that over time, we're now isometrically loading the heck out of my grip. You're loading the heck out of my shoulders. We're getting into my feet, my quads, my hips, and I'm just holding that for time. That sets all these tendons up.
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