About this episode

Bill Hartman discusses the differences between training athletes and restoring health, focusing on performance trade-offs and individualized programming.

Training athletes is not the same as restoring health. The priorities change, the constraints change, and the way you apply the model changes with them. Chris and Bill work through what it means to apply the UHPC Model in a performance setting. Restoring health is about recapturing relative motion and getting someone back within their base of support. Performance is about trade-off management: deciding how much relative motion an athlete gives up to produce force, accelerate, and project themselves without crossing into the part of the continuum where symptoms and injury live. Bill draws on years of work with professional pitchers, Olympic-level runners, NFL players, and NBA athletes to explain how he finds the point where an athlete performs at their highest level while still protecting themselves, and how he tracks that point as it moves. Comment below: if you work with a team, what is the hardest part of applying an individualized model at scale? 00:00 Why training athletes differs from restoring health 02:03 The misconception about using the model with athletes 03:10 Performance trade-offs and the injury continuum 05:30 Tracking athletes over time: pitching cycles vs. play…

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