#74: Have We Been Training Athletes All Wrong? – with Chong Xie

About this episode

The episode discusses whether traditional athlete training methods are flawed, focusing on the importance of fascia in performance.

On this week’s episode of The Ultimate Assist, John Stockton and Ken Ruettgers sit down with fascia researcher and movement specialist Chong Xie to explore a provocative question:Have we spent decades training the human body the wrong way? While most athletes focus on muscles, strength, and conditioning, Chong argues that the true key to performance lies in an often-overlooked system that surrounds every muscle, nerve, organ, and bone in the body: fascia. Drawing from years of res...

People in this episode

Hosts: John Stockton, Ken Ruettgers

Guest: Chong Xie

Topics covered

• athlete training
• fascia
• performance
• movement
• strength conditioning

Keywords

• athletes
• training
• fascia
• performance
• movement specialist
• strength
• conditioning

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