What's up guys? This is Mike Kasey. This is the brute strength podcast. This week I interviewed Andre La Bay in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Andre has been a rehab specialist and strength and conditioning coach for the past 20 plus years. He's worked with hundreds, if not

thousands of high school athletes. He's worked with PGA tour players and he was

most recently the physical therapist for the New Orleans Saints.

We talk a lot about injury prevention and how to bulletproof yourself if you're an athlete or your athletes if you're a coach we talk about how to develop

athletic potential etc. enjoy the show. What's up guys this is Mike Cashew this is the

brute strength podcast I'm here with Andre La Bay. We're in New Orleans, Louisiana at Total Package wellness and performance.

Yeah. Andre has been in the strength and conditioning, rehab, etc. field for the last 20 plus years.

He's worked with young kids, high school athletes collegiate athletes professional athletes in every sport from professional golf to he was the physical therapist for the New Orleans Saints

so we've had we have a wealth of here, and I'm excited to start picking his brain a little bit.

Nice to be here.

Thanks for, thanks for doing this, man.

So I told you a little bit ago that when I came so a little background I came in here

before a lumbar fusion two two and a half years ago and Andre within five minutes knew that my hip rotators were

weak and that that was causing a lot of issue and I went on to you know figure out that

that is that is probably why I put a lot of extra stress on my low back and

whatnot and that was kind of the catalyst.

So A, so my first question is what caused you, like why did you check my hip rotators and what did that tell you?

Well, all this stuff that we've been doing for the last 10 and 15 years

is really based off some work we did out of the Czech Republic

with a guy named Vladimir Yonda. it's been trying to figure out how to

look for markers that would tell us if a person has a motor, a movement pattern issue if they've lost the ability to move if they've forgotten

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