More Train, Less Pain; Engineering the Adaptable Athlete

By Dr. Michelle Boland & Dr. Tim RichardtHealth & Fitness Education Fitness

More Train, Less Pain; Engineering the Adaptable Athlete episodes

January 01, 2024 S3E17: Q&A - Tim and Michelle Answer All Of Your Painful Questions
Tim and Michelle answer all of your questions about pain and training in this week’s episode. We tackled your questions with all of our might to provide you answers about Tim’s hip pain status, Tim’s pain management strategies, what books we recommend related to Season 3’s theme, how to evolve your model, our thoughts about common three letter acronym systems, and our own struggling working with persistent pain clients.
Michelle and Tim hope you enjoy the show as much as they enjoyed recording it, and, while you're thinking of it, go ahead and leave a 5-star review on the pod player of your choice. Doing so will let Michelle and Tim continue to devote time to this show for many more seasons to come.
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Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt
55 min
December 25, 2023 S3E16: Doug Kechijian-Leg Pressing, Spine Surgery, and Maintaining Lifelong Work Capacity
Embarrassingly, Tim didn't create an Instagram account until early 2018. For the first 6 months of having that account, there were precisely two entities he followed - Zac Cupples and Resilient Rehab and Performance. If you listen to this podcast, there's a good chance you know of Zac. However, the Resilient boys (Trevor, Greg, and today's guest, Doug) have flown a little more under the radar; nevertheless, since 2015, they've quietly built a private PT empire spanning Manhattan, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
If you scroll WAY back on Resilient's account, you can still see Doug sprinting in a field or Trevor goblet squatting a kettlebell so large it looks more 15th century cannonball and less weight training implement. Anyhow, these guys have some shared mentors with Michelle and Tim, and they very much respect Resilient’s base of knowledge when it comes to all things biomechanics and persistent pain management.
Doug, specifically, has been through his own personal ringer with back issues so severe that, at one point, he could hardly walk more than a block at a time. Additionally, he's a badass backcountry skier, and his life before PT school was jumping out of airplanes to administer emergency medical care to military personnel in war-torn lands. Tim... managed the carts on a golf course.
Tim wanted to talk with Doug about how personal experience has impacted Doug’s treatment style, popular misconceptions regarding persistent pain, and skewing strength and conditioning exercises towards higher reward and lower risk. They covered those and then some, also working in a discussion of "Goggins versus coddling", the necessity of treatment models to be both explanatory and predictive, and normalizing pain amongst practitioners.
Michelle and Tim hope you enjoy the show as much as they enjoyed recording it, and, while you're thinking of it, go ahead and leave a 5-star review on the pod player of your choice. Doing so will let Michelle and Tim continue to devote time to this show for many more seasons to come.
Listen, download, subscribe, and tell your friends…
Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt
1 hr 26 min
December 18, 2023 S3E15: Lucy Hendricks- Moving Beyond Biomechanics: The art of communication, fighting beliefs around pain, and normalizing feedback
Michelle sits down with Lucy Hendricks, owner of Enhancing Life Gym in Lexington, KY. A biomechanics nerd turned client relationship wizard, Lucy is a well-spoken teacher and guide for trainers working with persistent pain clients. Her ability to skillfully coach exercises and conquer the art of communication makes Lucy the perfect person to discuss bringing awareness to the human body, why it is so scary for trainers to work with people in pain, the art of communication, fighting beliefs around pain, the skill of reading people, first interactions, training model adjustments for people in persistent pain, and normalizing feedback.
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Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt
1 hr 4 min
December 11, 2023 S3E14: Dean Guedo- Move More; pain, high flux, and why going to the gym is not enough
Michelle sits down with the walking king himself, Dean Guedo. Dean is a former athlete and powerlifter turned nutrition coach and rucking enthusiast with a simple message: walk more, WAY more. In this episode we discuss, Dean’s personal fitness and pain journey, the searching process of fitness through life changes, high flux, why we need to move more, why going to the gym may not be enough, structured lifts vs. building capacity with moving, and why your step count may not be a bad obsession.
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Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt
54 min
December 04, 2023 S3E13: Tony Gentilcore on Easy Training, Stoplights, and Making Bigger Cups
There are a few voices in this industry that simply have a knack for being incredibly reasonable with their training approach and evolving their model gradually over time. Eric Cressey, Dan John, and Tony are all names that come to mind. So, when it comes to having thoughts about the day to day realities of training people experiencing persistent pain, it was assured Tony would have some fascinating things to say, in addition to a few off-the-cuff 90s movies references- he did NOT disappoint in either regard.
In this episode, Tony and Tim get into the concepts of “training through” injury, delineating fitness versus rehab, Tony’s “trainable menu”, lowering pain sensitivity thresholds via lifestyle interventions, the red light/green light system, and a whole host of other topics.
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Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt
1 hr 18 min
November 27, 2023 S3E12: Dr. Susie Lachowski & Dr. Connor Sheridan-The BFR Training & Therapy Duo; Get schooled on Blood Flow Restriction Training as a tool for persistent pain clients
Want to add a new tool to your toolbox? Join Michelle as she sits down with Blood Flow Restriction Training (BFRT) experts to talk physiology and implementation.
Dr. Susie Lachowski, PhD, CSCS is the Founding Director and Assistant Professor of the Division of Exercise Science at American International College in Springfield, MA and Owner of Glass Training and Education. Susie is a leader within the industry on BFRT and certifies Exercise and Sports Medicine professionals in the BFRT modality across the country. Dr. Connor Sheridan is a physical therapist at Divergence PT and Wellness in Wellesley, MA and puts BFRT into action.
In this episode, we discuss the physiology and implementation of BFRT, case studies and examples for its use, strategies for working with both performance and persistent pain clients, BFRT as a modality to train at low intensities with muscle growth, cardiovascular, and recovery benefits, how to prepare persistent clients for BFRT, specific training protocols, and much more.
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Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt
1 hr
November 20, 2023 S3E11: Tim & Michelle- If You Show Me Your Adaptive Upside, I'll Show You Mine; Adaptive Upside Exercise Selection with Persistent Pain Clients Top 3 Countdown
Tim and Michelle countdown their TOP 3 exercise concepts to maximize adaptive upside in the context of persistent pain clients. How best can we create system changes and manage trade-offs in our training programs? Find out in this episode.
In this episode, we discuss movement quality as an adaptation, what the upside is to alternating reps, progressing volume with timed sets, why medicine ball throws are awesome, why sleds are the most useful thing in the gym, and how walking is not conditioning.
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Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt
56 min
November 13, 2023 S3E10: Bill Hartman- Perspectives on Models, Mentorship, and Training in Persistent Pain
Bill is a Physical Therapist and, together with Mike Robertson, founded Indianapolis Fitness and Sports Training, known as IFAST, located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Over the past decade, IFAST has quietly become one of the predominant hubs of education in the industries of PT and S&C. Former Bill mentees include Zac Cupples, Mike Camporini, and what feels like 25% of medical and physical prep staff in the NBA and MLB.
This past January, Tim had the pleasure of going out to Indy for 3 weeks to learn from Bill. This upcoming January, Tim will be heading back out for 3 months to continue his study as he and Bill attempt to improve Tim’s movement profile enough that he may be able to avoid hip surgery. Bill’s a fiercely independent thinker, and one of the most intellectually honest individuals on the planet. As such, his style of communication may not be FOR everyone. But, as you’ll hear from him, that’s kind of the point.
In this episode Tim and Bill touch on Bill’s ability to continue training in the weight room despite middle age, numerous surgeries, and nagging pain, how he approaches restoring comfortable movement with his clients, and some uncommon considerations regarding total hip replacements.
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Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt
1 hr 9 min
November 06, 2023 S3E9: Tim & Michelle Reunite- Engaging with the Body on a More Frequent Basis
Tim and Michelle reunite for a mid-point check-in for season 3. In this episode we talk about, our current training status, monitoring movement KPIs, connecting with the body on a more frequent basis, reframing pain as information, pushing into and pulling away from exercise during times of psychological stress, the value of just listening, engaging physically with life, and much, much more.
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Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/
53 min
October 30, 2023 S3E8: Dr. Seth Oberst- Tactical Urgency, Open-Minded Education, and Navigating Uncertainty in Persistent Pain
Both Tim and Michelle would never miss an opportunity to spend time with Dr. Seth Oberst. Seth is a hidden gem who doesn’t do much posting on social media but has an incredible reputation both personally and professionally as a physical therapist. In this episode, we discuss regulating tactics, the illusion of infinite progression, developing a sustainable movement practice, being a guide to your client’s process, projecting uncertainty, tactical urgency, phases of the learning process, and when to bail if an approach isn’t working.
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Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/
1 hr 12 min

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