Episode #61 Strategies for Creating Healthy, High Performing Athletes with Former Eagles and Chiefs Athletic Trainer Aaron Borgmann

Link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/238054/2838967

*SHOW TIMESTAMPS FEATURED AT THE END*
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In this episode Gerry welcomes former Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs Athletic Trainer Aaron Borgmann.

To start, Aaron walks through his core philosophies as an athletic trainer and rehabilitation professional, based around his mantra, "train the athlete, not the condition." Aaron talks about the importance of accounting for the variables that can arise from one athlete to another and ultimately affect the nature, seriousness and rehab timeline of injuries.

From there, Gerry asks Aaron his opinion on unstable surface training and voices his displeasures with the use of it in the realm of strength and conditioning. Aaron and Gerry both agree on the need for stability variations in physical therapy and rehabbing injuries that diminish proprioception. However, there are much simpler and effective variations that would work instead of using complicated variations to look novel or "cool."

To finish the conversation, the two address the importance of the meaning of injury "prevention," and "reduction." Meaning, there is no such thing as preventing injuries as that would imply we could predict them, but rather our goal should be focused on injury REDUCTION.

All that and more on this episode of Muscles and Management!

Show Timestamps:

9:36 - Not Seeing Eye to Eye with Coaches
15:15 - Being Professional and Dealing with Other People in the System
17:00 - How to Explain Things to Coaches/Athletes
20:07 - People Are Afraid to Be Wrong
23:40 - Aaron’s Mindset with Rehab
27:30 - Stop Blanketing All Athletes Together
33:50 - Teaching Athletes to Know How to Do Things on Their Own
38:35 - Unstable Surface Training
46:39 - Alternatives to Dangerous Social Media Exercises
48:30 - Programming Pyramid
54:15 - One Sport Athletes
56:57 - Prevention Vs Reduction
1:02:50 - ACL Programs Are Great, but They Aren’t Prevention Programs
1:04:20 - Quad-dominant Athletes & The Science of Stopping
1:12:45 - Aaron’s Final Thoughts (Do the Basics Right)