In today’s episode I chat all about the importance of mobility training for athletes and how most athletes can use mobility training as their secret weapon to 10X their performance. I also chat about my own experience of how most coaches and athletes approach training and how I feel many are skipping over a very important component of training. I discuss the mechanism that is responsible for 99% of injuries and how mobility training has the potential to drastically reduce your risk of injury. I finish up the episode speaking about 4 major benefits of mobility and joint control training for athletes. If you are an athlete or a coach who trains athletes, either individually or in a team environment, this episode will provide lots of value.

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Episode Outline

• [00:30] Episode Introduction
• [04:58] The current of mobility training in sports
• [09:48] My own experience playing sports
• [11:57] How 99% of injuries occur
• [17:14] Most common things I see with how athletes move
• [21:52] Key benefits of mobility training for athletes
• [26:22] Strategies you as an athlete can use to begin to improve you movement capacities

Key Points

• Before beginning to move your body under load (e.g. strength training), you should make sure you have a strong foundational movement capacity.
• If you cannot access your full joint ROM, then you will not be able to achieve your full potential for strength, speed and power.
• Mobility training and greater joint ROM can lead to increases in strength and power.
• There is no athletic endeavour that cannot be improved by moving better.
• When a tissue (muscle, ligament, tendon) experiences a load that is greater than the load bearing capacity of that tissue, then injury to the tissue will occur.
• Most injuries occur at end range of motion where the tissue is weakest.
• Restriction in joint range of motion will lead to reduced movement options, which will reduce your ability to deal with movement variables.

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