Kyler Brown
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first heard May 2025
last heard 24 Oct
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And you just do this with a super, super heavy loaded bar that's too big for you to lift? Not necessarily. You can actually do an empty bar, but you pull it up against the safety bars of the rack or something like that. Isometric thigh pull is the thing to look up.
But there's a lot of ways to load these heavy isometrics because that gets your tissues ready and you build that up over several weeks and that tendon adapts and now it's ready to resist force. And then the way you bridge that is you start doing deloaded plyometrics.
So now maybe we do some sort of like a band assisted pogo where I'm actually pulling on a band overhead, pulling down on that band essentially lightens me because the band's gonna pull me back up. And now I get to train that speed and that quickness through the ground but it's not my full body weight. And so that's a great way to bridge from, okay, now I've got the parts ready.
Now can I deload the amount of force and train the speed? Once I've got the speed going in the parts, now I just get to become an athlete and do body weight and beyond.
And so that's where you see these really high level athletes, even at early ages, their trainers know how to build that paradigm up and bridge it across to where you don't get any injuries along the way, but you get a really springy force resistant person. So many of us, like we touched on initially, don't train pogos. We don't train plyometrics.
If you go out to the local men's or women's soccer league, how many people there over 40? Not very many. Now there's a lot of reasons why that is, but we're not playing games and we're not reacting to stuff. And so we need to make the gym a safe space where we can recreate these things and essentially test out these movements. So I don't lose it.
So with you, without getting your foot out, you have a very mobile foot. Your swimming background, swimmers have really great mobile feet. Show me a soccer player who had their foot strapped in cleats for 10, 20 years versus a swimmer. Very different setups. So it really speaks to how tissues adapt over time. So your feet have a ton of motion in them. They are not restricted.
You also do a lot of barefoot work in the gym, which is helpful for you. Your feet are actually pretty strong too. If we test your big toe and your smaller toes, you don't test outside the normal limits for strength requirements, but your biggest gap is that multi-positional stiffness and that ability to create force absorption through your tissues.
And you're actually set up for that because you can move so much. You don't find those end ranges, either the bony end ranges or those tendons can't grab because there's so much play in that pattern. So what you accidentally do all the time is you'll go on a ruck or you'll go on a hunt where you're off road and you're getting all these angles.
You'll slowly flare up a tendon and tendons are notorious for not hurting.
I'm just glad your feet not at the other end. So because your feet are so mobile. Tendons are notorious for, they don't really hurt at the time, but they hurt like crazy the next morning. And what you always routinely say, which is really common if you're plantar fasciitis or patellar tendonitis is when I first get up, it's really stiff and creaky and sore and hurts.
And that's because tendons love blood flow. They love movement and they love motion. And so all those chemicals that come with inflammation, if we're just sitting around or sleeping, that's the opportunity to get stiff and really sore and achy. With that kind of symptom pattern, you're not really lost on what it is because that's classic tendon. You can walk, we can load it. There's no failure.
So we're not worried about a muscular strain or any other damage, but that tendon gets really hot and spicy, especially in the mornings, if you're not creating that stiffness.
Well, tendons are one of the slowest things to heal. And I guarantee if we really zoomed in and looked at all of it, you probably have a little tendinopathy in those tendons, a little damage here and there that could be contributing to that irritation. But the most important thing is understanding that tendons take months to regenerate.
You and I have had a pretty consistent attack with it, but we finally got you on a really good rehab program you're doing yourself where we're loading the heck out of it with these isometrics and we're building the load more and more. And we're loading those isometrics in different positions. So one of the ones we do with you a lot is that front foot hover, but you're actually plantar flexing.
So where you're driving, you're doing as much of a calf raise as you can, in that split squat position. And then we make you hold that while you do that split squat. So it changes the whole angle and the relationship.
For you, the goal was your toe off was one of the problems. So what happens with you is when your foot, your heel lands, you're driving your body forward and your foot's behind you, you would do like a little bit of a rotation out and create like a little bit of a whip through where it wasn't nice and pure rotation rolling through the foot and the toe.
It was complex and putting extra stress at the ankle. That times 10,000 steps a day will really pick at that tendon and make it sore, which is why you wake up the next day hurting. So what we're trying to do is put these tendons at different lengths and then putting a lot of load through them.
And then the complexity we're adding isn't necessarily at that joint, but we're actually adding motion and complexity above with the lunge and also the requirement of you having to stabilize centrally in that mid part of your body while that foot is locked in. So someone with a really mobile foot, you tend to really use that foot for everything. And that's how you spice up those tendons.
And I'm essentially putting that foot in a position where that tendon has to heal and it has to get stronger. But then I'm making the other parts of your body reach that complexity and meet the demand.
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