More Train, Less Pain; Engineering the Adaptable Athlete: Recent Episodes
Dr. Michelle Boland & Dr. Tim Richardt
The More Train, Less Pain podcast is hosted by Dr. Michelle Boland and Dr. Tim Richardt and is specifically designed around engineering the adaptable athlete. The podcast will bring you the most knowledgeable guests in the fields of strength and conditioning and physical therapy, as well as episodes consisting of topic “deep-dives”. Our aim is to elevate YOUR understanding as a movement professional, to give you the knowledge, and the tools to deliver an even better service to your people, whoever they may be.
Shed a tear and drink a tequila along with Michelle and Tim as they bid farewell to Season One of More Train, Less Pain. They’ll each count down their Top 3 “Throughlines and Takeaways” from the incredible guests they’ve been joined by thus far, as well as inject the usual degree of nonsense in the form of “Season One Superlatives”.
What habits, tactics, and thought-processes got repeated over and over by multiple leaders in the fields of S&C and PT? What topics were most impactful to Michelle and Tim’s respective practices? What Season One guest would they LEAST like to face in an impromptu, back-alley powerlifting meet? All these questions (and MORE) answered on the FINAL episode of Season 1 of More Train, Less Pain; Engineering the Adaptable Athlete.
Get ready for some MUCH anticipated Q&A. Fine listeners from all over the world have submitted excellent Q’s. Michelle and Tim do their damndest to A ‘em. On this episode they’ll tackle such topics as;
- K-tape
- Overdoing fitness
- Making rehab fun (again!)
- Over-complicating strength and conditioning
- The SFMA
- Managing contradictory treatment models
- Desert island exercise(s)
- How to MENTOR
- Michelle’s bench press numbers
If you’ve liked Season 1 of More Train, Less Pain thus far, you’ll LOVE this episode. Tune in next week for the SEASON ONE FINALE, which will be the premier of both “Boozy Podcasting” AND “Season Superlatives”.
Oscillatory isometrics, curtsy lunges, load placement, and asymmetrical respiratory cueing- Oh My!
In this episode, Michelle leaves Tim behind and goes SOLO to get into the real nitty gritty with her coach and Director of Performance at IFast, Erik Huddleston.
Erik answers specific questions about programming for Michelle and they dive into four phases of training. They discuss the benefits of coaches having coaches, how question prompting is an opportunity to learn, overall views towards program design, and specific exercise execution. You are going to dig this episode!
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Michelle and Tim here! On this episode Tim flies solo AGAIN with the man, the legend, the LARGEST of Z’s, Dr. Zac Cupples. Tim and Zac discuss how improving movement options is legit, but at what cost? We know that this breathing stuff works, but are there drawbacks to this approach? Can we really make the changes “stick?”
Tim and Zac also sift through, How Zac structures his own training, What's better, time management or energy management?, What is Zac’s biggest failure?, The dichotomy of the type A personality, Movement behaviors: How do we get them to "stick", The dark side of internal cueing, AND the best way to communicate effectively to clients.
Get ready to enter the darkside to all this movement stuff…Subscribe, download, listen, and learn!
Michelle and Tim are joined by THE Fergus Connolly, expert in all things team performance, consultant to professional sports organizations and tech companies alike, and author of 59 Lessons, The Happiness Handbook, and Game Changer.
They discuss Fergus’s personal exercise habits, the importance of choosing the RIGHT key performance indicators, the pitfalls of being overly “objective” with sport metric tracking, sustaining success in sport and life, and the value of “safe-to-fail” learning environments.
If you’re a movement professional looking to better understand WHICH data matters, this is the episode for you. If you’re a member of an organization looking to inspire cultural change for the better, this is the episode for you. If you’re simply a human looking to interact better with your fellow humans, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU.
This is also the episode for you if you enjoy Irish accents (who doesn’t?). Subscribe, download, listen, and learn!
Join Tim and special guest Michael Camporini, of “Campo Deadlift” and “Camporini Angle” fame, as they chat about their own training practices, the demonization of back squatting, and the utility of having a “wide-angle” viewpoint with which to view, and intervene on, client/patient motion. For any clinician frustrated about trying to improve stubborn hip internal rotation, this one’s a “must-listen”. Listen to the end to find out Dr. Camporini’s next exciting career pivot.
Show Notes:
Campo/Justin Moore Just Fly sports performance podcast
https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-241-campo-moore/
MASS
https://shop.rebel-performance.com/products/pat-davidson-mass-2
Justin Moore IG
https://www.instagram.com/jmsb_strengthtraining/
David Grey IG
https://www.instagram.com/davidgreyrehab/
Campo.DPT
https://www.instagram.com/campo_dpt/
Michelle and Tim are joined by none other than runner-turned-powerlifter, ACL-rehab-encylopedia, youth-injury-management-expert, and PT with the most trained solei on the east coast, the one, the only, DR. STEPH ALLEN!
They pow-wow about her own training practices, Tim’s inability to understand how “show notes” work, the variable response to heavy barbell training of different genders and populations, objective strength testing as return-to-sport criteria, and frustration with the academic institution at large.
If you’re looking to level up (pun-intended) as a coach or clinician, this is the episode for you!
Michelle and Tim are joined by expert human, decent predator, and mediocre pack mule, Todd Bumgardner to chat about getting winded walking up the hills of Central Pennsylvania, disappearing into the Alaskan bush for weeks at a time, and designing training programs for hunters and tactical athletes. Along the way, they foray into topics like;
- How most backcountry athletes “mess up” their physical preparation
- Learning to “let go” of strength goals to develop a more well-rounded human
- The immense and understated value of low level aerobic training
Pack your water purification tablets and compass, because this is one intellectual journey you WON’T want to miss.
We’re lucky enough to be joined by soccer-injury-management authority and rear-foot-elevated-split squat aficionado Dr. Nicole Surdyka! We talk about her own training amongst her move into professional soccer, the optimization of risk/reward in both programming and exercise selection for athletes, and count things down with all the ways we see people mess up “return to sport” scenarios.
This one’s a doozy. Tell work you’ll be in late, brew a nice cup of tea, slap your headphones on, learn, and enjoy!
Michelle and Tim get schooled by Eric Schmitt, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for THE Memphis Grizzlies, on all things strength endurance, movement screens, energy system development, continued learning, and MORE. If you’re a coach or trainer looking to use the lessons of an NBA S&C professional to further develop your own practice, this is the episode for YOU.
They’ve done it again!!! Strength and rehab dream team Michelle and Tim bring on Dr. Seth Oberst; THE authority on all things self-regulation, variability, and defense responses. They chat about managing both OVER and UNDER-stressed athletes, the magic of attunement, and how Seth structures his own training. If you’re a human who works with other humans that either train OR are in pain (or both), this show is for YOU. Give it a listen, and enjoy!
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Join Michelle and Tim as they venture out of the proverbial podcasting womb and record their FIRST guest episode recording with none other than truth-bomb-dropper and tendon rehab superstar, Dr. Jarred Boyd of the Memphis Grizzlies. They talk Jarred’s own workouts. They talk dynamic correspondence. They talk psychological profiles and emotionally variable states of the performance elite. You’re gonna like the way they sound, I guarantee it.
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Join Michelle and Tim as they pay their respects to the Postural Restoration Institute. They talk about how PRI has influenced their careers, lines of thinking, and methodology that has inspired them to explore more, elements of PRI that inform their programming and decisions, and how they see it misapplied.
Tim will give you a drunk history version on what PRI stands for, who they are, and what they do, while Michelle goes on a caffeine-induced rant about the possible limitations of a ‘PRI purist’ mindset. Tim and Michelle have no affiliation with PRI and will not be laying out any secret course information, just merely expressing gratitude towards how PRI has influenced their practices.
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If you want to learn more about PRI, we highly recommend signing up RIGHT NOW for a course at posturalrestoration.com/programs-courses
The dynamic duo brings on Tony Gentilcore, the cooler big brother of the Strength and Conditioning World, to count down “The Top 3 Things We’ve Changed Our Minds About in the Past 5 Years”. Whether you’re a fan of rehabilitation semantics, submaximal training, or obscure 1980s Superman movie references, this show’s got something for you. BONUS CONTENT; stick around for the back half, where Michelle and Tony solve all personal trainer’s financial problems in 30 minutes.
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Dr. Michelle Boland and Dr. Tim Richardt discuss how models and principles are useful, explain their own unique models within their physical therapy and fitness services, and provide you with actual application strategies using models within day-to-day decisions.
Models provide a structure to follow and a feedback loop for the process of how to take your clients and athletes from ‘where they currently are’ to ‘where they want to be’, so they are MUCH more effective than selling Fit Tea on Instagram.
Michelle and Tim also discuss the professionals who have influenced their careers and how their experiences have led them to utilize models and principles within their practices.
Links for People Mentioned:
- Kelly Starrett ‘The Ready State’ YouTube
- Pat Davidson Instagram @dr.patdavidson
- Bill Hartman Instagram @billhartmanpt
- Michelle Boland Instagram @dr.michelleboland
- Tim Richardt Instagram @tim_richardt_dpt
Welcome to the More Train, Less Pain podcast with Dr. Michelle Boland and Dr. Tim Richardt. Our podcast is specifically designed around engineering the adaptable athlete.
This is our obligatory “introduction” episode, where we’ll be briefly discussing who we are, why we’re making this, and what you can expect from season 1 of More Train, Less Pain.
Links of Interest:
Michelle on Instagram
Tim on Instagram
More Train, Less Pain Page
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