More Train, Less Pain; Engineering the Adaptable Athlete

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 coa...

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...

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 me...

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-liste...

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 populati...

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 p...

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...

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),...

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 go...

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...

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 Michell...

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 curre...

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 I...