710 - Mike Robertson: The R7 Program Design System
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Mike Robertson is one of the most highly sought-after coaches, consultants, speakers and writers in the fitness industry and he's been at this for MULTIPLE decades! In fact, Cody and Mike first met over 7 years ago at a seminar in Seattle. So the history and experience these two bring, makes this podcast episode unbelievably valuable.
Mike Robertson is known for his “no-nonsense” approach to training and brutal efficiency; he's made a name for himself as a go-to resource for professional athletes from every major sport. He is the President of Robertson Training Systems and the co-owner of Indianapolis Fitness and Sports Training (IFAST) in Indianapolis, Indiana. IFAST has been named one of the Top 10 Gyms in America by Men’s Health magazine three times in the past six years. Mike currently coaches a handful of professional athletes during their off-season, and is the physical preparation coach for the Indy Eleven professional soccer team.
Last but not least, he also has his own podcast called The Physical Preparation Podcast - which Cody has been featured on, HERE.
Follow Mike on instagram @robtrainsystems
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Timestamps:
1:00 - Who is Mike Robertson?
7:20 - Advice For New Personal Trainers
12:00 - Breakdown Of R7 Method
19:15 - Release
21:25 - Recommendations to start for Foam Rolling
24:00 - Reset
28:10 - PRI Breathing
34:40 - Readiness
37:05 - Reactive
44:40 - Resistance
48:30 - Resiliency
54:45 - Recovery
1:00:15 - Where you can find Mike and all of his content.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the tailored life podcast, the one and only fitness and nutrition |
| 0:10.7 | podcast that goes way beyond just training and nutrition. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm your host, Cody McBroom, and today with me I have a legend from the strength |
| 0:17.9 | training world, Mike Robertson. You can find all of his content at Robertson |
| 0:23.7 | Training Systems.com. And today we're going to dive into the R7 system. And this R7 system is |
| 0:30.2 | basically a way that you can literally set up your training. It's designed as a step-by-step |
| 0:36.1 | sequence to make sure that you're training effectively, |
| 0:38.3 | efficiently, and avoiding all injuries at all costs. We go through each part of the R7 system, |
| 0:44.2 | which is release, reset, readiness, reactive, resistance, resiliency, and recovery. And we touch |
| 0:50.4 | on a few random topics of coaching and program design and stuff throughout. |
| 0:57.2 | But Mike Robbins is somebody I met almost 10 years ago. |
| 0:58.2 | So it was about nine years ago. |
| 0:59.6 | He came and did a workshop at our gym. |
| 1:01.7 | I was able to grab dinner with him and some of the coaches. |
| 1:08.5 | And I've watched and learned from his content for literally the last decade just trying to absorb from him. |
| 1:15.7 | Because he's literally been in the strength world for this long training pro college recreational athletes everyday people everybody on the sun he's done every part of training inside this industry that you can imagine so his experience goes way beyond most people |
| 1:20.8 | he's a wealth of knowledge and a lot of what he talks about is not only science-based and really |
| 1:26.3 | informative but it's practically applicable. |
| 1:29.3 | Like, it's real people shit that you do in the trenches, which is what I love so much about him. |
| 1:33.5 | So I enjoyed this conversation so much. I think you guys are going to too. We dive into this |
| 1:37.2 | R7 system, and it's going to really just set you up for some of the best training that you'll |
| 1:41.8 | ever do. And you'll notice some of the key things that he talks about |
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