606: How to improve mobility & strength for injury prevention | Henry Abbott

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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“Get some motion, get some bounce, and get some playfulness into how you move,” explains Henry Abbott. Abbott, an award-winning journalist and founder of TrueHoop, joins us today to explain how to prevent injury and improve mobility for all aspects of life. - Immobility & how it impacts quality of life (~1:45) - What is P3 (~3:00) - Using data to prevent injury (~4:40) - Working the muscles below your knee (~8:25) - ACL tears & hip mobility (~12:45) - Hip stability vs. mobility (~15:15) - ACL tears & sports (~18:00) - Preventing injuries (~20:50) - Surfaces & injury (~23:25) - Learning agility from a young age (~25:55) - Should you be using the elliptical? (~30:15) - How to avoid pickleball injuries (~31:30) - The most common problems (~35:10) - Is injury & athleticism genetic? (~37:50) - How to lift heavy without injury (~43:00) - Adding mobility to your routine (~44:00) Referenced in the episode: - Follow Abbott on X (@TrueHoop) - Pick up his book, Ballistic - Check out P3 (https://www.p3.md/) This episode of the mindbodygreen podcast was created in partnership with MassMutual. MassMutual believes in helping people live well—so they can live more. Learn more at MassMutual.com/Wellness. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of My Buddy Green, and your host.
0:07.0	This episode of the NBG podcast was created in partnership with Mass Mutual. On this show, we spend a lot of time
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