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167: Doug Kechijian: Navigating the Grey Areas of Anti-Rotation Training, Self-Organization, Internal Cueing, and Beyond | Sponsored by SimpliFaster
Today’s episode features Doug Kechijian, therapist, coach and owner of Resilient Performance Systems. Resilient’s clientele includes athletes and operators from a variety of professional and collegiate sports, as well as, federal law enforcement tactical teams, military special operations forces, and those with a history of persistent pain and extensive surgical backgrounds
Before beginning his sports medicine practice, Doug was a Pararescueman in the U.S. Air force where he deployed throughout the world to help provide technical rescue capability and emergency medical care to U.S and allied forces. Additionally, Doug is the host of the “Resilient Performance Podcast” featuring a number of thought leaders.
Doug is introspective, humble, and transparent. His diverse experience and education, as well as his own practice of learning and reading has given him an wide lens perspective on many domains of the human performance sector. As a field (and with anything) it’s easy to make noise, or get noticed, based on extreme viewpoints, often talking about avoiding a common practice in coaching, such as “don’t squat”, “don’t lift weights”, “don’t internal cue”, “don’t do drills”, “don’t foam roll”, etc.
Doug is a coach who really makes me think in his drive to find the truth in things, and avoid the tribe mentality in coaching stances. In the spirit of that, I wanted to tackle some facets of the field that tend to be looked at in a black and white frame, but in reality are more grey, which is in the realms of rotational core training, self-organization and when to intervene in coaching versus letting athletes figure things out themselves unimpeded.
Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more.
View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage.
Key Points
Doug’s transition from the military to physical therapy and his approach to learning and growing in the field
Concepts on core-bracing and anti-rotation versus a more fluid and dynamic view on trunk training
Ideas on self-organization in athletics: when and how to intervene
“When you prepare to be good enough at a lot of different things, you recognize patterns and commonalities across these skillsets, across these diverse fields”
“When it comes to learning, people love formulas… but now I realize that learning is a lot more messy”
“There is always this range between being a specialist and a generalist”
“I think reading outside your field is what helps you to connect dots and see the bigger picture”
“Scientists and all us of want to prove certain things, and often times, just confirm our biases”
“If you don’t see the bigger picture, then that’s where we get these silos between strength and conditioning, and physical therapy, and sport coaches, and all of these things exist on a continuum”
“For most people, I don’t know if a palloff press is dynamic enough or challenging enough… you want to integrate that stiffness in a contextually specific way”
“I don’t teach people specific bracing techniques, because people do that stuff reflexively well, with the caveat that you’re putting them in a good position”
“We’ve made lifting weights way too difficult, it’s not calculus”
“Every intervention has un-intended consequences”
“If the key to rotational performance is to relax and get really stiff…. If that’s what we are really chasing from a rotational performance standpoint, if we are tell people when they do these activities to deliberately brace, are we inhibiting their ability to relax?”
“If you only have one way to do something, then under stress, you have no options!”
“I think it’s dangerous to assume that every movement that emerges organically is best for the athlete, because it might not be a choice, so you want to give people choices and at least give them the requisite foundation...
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By Joel Smith, Just-Fly-Sports.com
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Today’s episode features Doug Kechijian, therapist, coach and owner of Resilient Performance Systems. Resilient’s clientele includes athletes and operators from a variety of professional and collegiate sports, as well as, federal law enforcement tactical teams, military special operations forces, and those with a history of persistent pain and extensive surgical backgrounds
Before beginning his sports medicine practice, Doug was a Pararescueman in the U.S. Air force where he deployed throughout the world to help provide technical rescue capability and emergency medical care to U.S and allied forces. Additionally, Doug is the host of the “Resilient Performance Podcast” featuring a number of thought leaders.
Doug is introspective, humble, and transparent. His diverse experience and education, as well as his own practice of learning and reading has given him an wide lens perspective on many domains of the human performance sector. As a field (and with anything) it’s easy to make noise, or get noticed, based on extreme viewpoints, often talking about avoiding a common practice in coaching, such as “don’t squat”, “don’t lift weights”, “don’t internal cue”, “don’t do drills”, “don’t foam roll”, etc.
Doug is a coach who really makes me think in his drive to find the truth in things, and avoid the tribe mentality in coaching stances. In the spirit of that, I wanted to tackle some facets of the field that tend to be looked at in a black and white frame, but in reality are more grey, which is in the realms of rotational core training, self-organization and when to intervene in coaching versus letting athletes figure things out themselves unimpeded.
Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more.
View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage.
Key Points
Doug’s transition from the military to physical therapy and his approach to learning and growing in the field
Concepts on core-bracing and anti-rotation versus a more fluid and dynamic view on trunk training
Ideas on self-organization in athletics: when and how to intervene
“When you prepare to be good enough at a lot of different things, you recognize patterns and commonalities across these skillsets, across these diverse fields”
“When it comes to learning, people love formulas… but now I realize that learning is a lot more messy”
“There is always this range between being a specialist and a generalist”
“I think reading outside your field is what helps you to connect dots and see the bigger picture”
“Scientists and all us of want to prove certain things, and often times, just confirm our biases”
“If you don’t see the bigger picture, then that’s where we get these silos between strength and conditioning, and physical therapy, and sport coaches, and all of these things exist on a continuum”
“For most people, I don’t know if a palloff press is dynamic enough or challenging enough… you want to integrate that stiffness in a contextually specific way”
“I don’t teach people specific bracing techniques, because people do that stuff reflexively well, with the caveat that you’re putting them in a good position”
“We’ve made lifting weights way too difficult, it’s not calculus”
“Every intervention has un-intended consequences”
“If the key to rotational performance is to relax and get really stiff…. If that’s what we are really chasing from a rotational performance standpoint, if we are tell people when they do these activities to deliberately brace, are we inhibiting their ability to relax?”
“If you only have one way to do something, then under stress, you have no options!”
“I think it’s dangerous to assume that every movement that emerges organically is best for the athlete, because it might not be a choice, so you want to give people choices and at least give them the requisite foundation...
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