WATCH: Question & Answer Session with Dave Tate
Dave sits down to answer key questions that he received over the course of the Fixing Date Tate Series. Dave discusses everything from his biggest takeaways, to lessons learned, overall project goals, lifestyle changes, and the importance of effectively auto-regulating your own training program.
My RPR Level I Certification Workshop Experience
So, how does this voodoo work? Honestly, I’m not sure. I don’t really care, though, because I know it works and has been a big asset to my training during the past couple of years.
Movement Patterns Beyond One Plane
If you’re looking a little shifty, if you’re feeling aches and pains on your competition movements, if you want a longer shelf life, if you want to feel athletic instead of “locked in” all of the time, finish your sessions with this. I promise you'll move and feel better.
Make Recovery Great Again
Your ability to recover is arguably one of the most misunderstood and undervalued aspects of strength and conditioning. As a goal oriented and driven lifter (possibly Type A too), avoid these common pitfalls.
Minimizing Pain for the Active Meathead
Still want to play softball, play basketball, practice martial arts, hike, bike, and swim? Although these things are extremely fun and I highly recommend them for mostly everyone, they can certainly take their toll on your body, especially when combined with hard training.
WATCH: Rapid Fire Table Talk with Dr. John Rusin
Over half an hour of non-stop Q&A, responding directly to questions from elitefts readers.
It's Time to Recover
Time is the multiplier that turns a tiny crack on a newly paved road into a pothole or a single tree into a forest. Here are a few tips to reduce stress on the body and to better prepare yourself to have more in the tank for your training.
The Best Advice I Can Give to Future Physical Therapists
If you want to make a career out of working with strength athletes, there's one thing that's more important than everything else.
Training, Open-Heart Surgery, and the Rehabilitation Process
While I wait for my new heart, CT Fletcher's updates and posts about his recent heart transplant have me thinking about the recovery process.
Reflexive Performance Reset: An Athlete-Based Model
The practitioner-based model is an overworked, overburdened system that leads to scarcity problems and a largely insufficient amount of time spent serving those in need of the services. RPR overcomes every downfall of this model.
WATCH: The Three Best Recovery Tools
It doesn't matter how hard you train if you don't recover. Clint has used a lot of different tools to help with recovery, and these are the ones he relies on most often.
WATCH: Fixing Dave Tate — Implementing the Upper Body Training Adjustments for Phase 3
Putting Dr. Rusin's new plan to the test, this video shows a full session of Dave's revised upper body training days.
The Second Phase of Injury: Changing the Plan
I needed to know I wasn’t going crazy for wanting to know where things were scarring down, and I needed to know what to expect based on the injury itself. So I broke the mold a bit.
3 Ways to Better Utilize Compression Floss Bands
Whatever you want to call this tool (compression tape, floss band, voodoo bands, or something else) it can be incredibly useful in ways often overlooked.
WATCH: Fixing Dave Tate — Adjustments to Upper Body Training for Phase 3
With two phases of training complete, the upper body training days must now be adjusted to continue Dave's progress. This is the new plan.
WATCH: Fixing Dave Tate — Implementing the Lower Body Training Adjustments for Phase 3
Dr. Rusin already explained the alterations to Dave's program after the first two phases. Now it's time to see them in action.
The Acute Phase of Injury: What Just Happened?
Once you’ve started the waiting game and it has sunk in you’re out of training for a while, there are definite ways to set yourself up for success. This is something I'm currently experiencing myself after tearing the adductor longus tendon from my pelvis.
WATCH: Fixing Dave Tate — Adjustments to Lower Body Training Days for Phase 3
Now that Dr. Rusin and Dave checked in and reviewed the previous progress, it's time to make some changes to both the max effort and dynamic effort lower body training days.
WATCH: Fixing Dave Tate — The 10-Week Update Discussion
Dr. Rusin returns to the elitefts headquarters to get an update on Dave's progress through two training phases.
WATCH: Fixing Dave Tate — Programming the Six-Phase Dynamic Warm-Up Sequence
The goal is to rebuild Dave's foundational movement patterns, and the first step is to begin each training session with one of two 15-minute sequences. Here's the method behind the madness.
WATCH: Fixing Dave Tate — Observing Dave's Current Training Capabilities
To gain a greater understanding of Dave's current capabilities, Dr. Rusin watches a full training session of six movements.
Four Simple Mistakes to Avoid to Stay Injury-Free
These are what I’d consider the biggest mistakes in letting injury dictate your ability to train.
WATCH: Fixing Dave Tate — The Three Areas of Focus Discovered During Initial Evaluation
With the discovery phase nearly complete, Dr. Rusin has identified three key areas that will be imperative for Dave moving forward — hip stability, posterior chain upper quadrant stability/thoracic spine cage mobility, and program formation.
Tissue Load vs. Tissue Capacity: Increasing Tissue Capacity While Altering Training Load
This second article of the series discusses additional loading concepts, training considerations, and rehabilitation protocols for increasing tissue capacity while maintaining or decreasing training load.