This week’s guest is Quinn Henoch. Quinn is the head of rehabilitation for Juggernaut HQ and his gym, Paradigm Performance Therapy is located adjacently to the new Juggernaut gym. He is also the founder of The Clinical Athlete.

Although speed and vertical jump based training, largely in the scope of track and field is a regular topic of this podcast, I think it is truly important to engage all aspects of the field of physical preparation and human performance. Today’s episode covers topics that have roots in both physical therapy and strength training, as well as concepts that speed-power athletes and coaches can take away for higher performance.

In that regard, we have the “one-two punch” of strength coach and physical therapist, Quinn Henoch. I can’t think of anyone better to tackle some common questions that physical preparation professionals might have with the flood of corrective exercise and SMR tools available to us and our athletes today.

There are so many therapy options out there in relation to athletes, it’s hard to make sense of best practices. Additionally, there are so many opinions on ideals of stretching, posture and breathing dynamics, this is another swamp to wade through to find the optimal method. Fortunately, Quinn is one of the best, practical coach-therapists out there who gets to the root of what we are looking to “solve” in these scenarios, and how to best manage training practices in light of this information.

Today on the podcast, we’ll talk about things like static stretching, weighted stretching, foam rolling and SMR techniques, the placebo effect in therapy, and much more. Overall, this was an awesome podcast for coaches and therapists, since it covered as many topics that were “in the middle” of the two arenas of performance.

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