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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Ben Patrick

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6908 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Ben Patrick, known as the “Knees Over Toes Guy,” is the founder, president, and CEO of Athletic Truth Group (ATG) Online Coaching. Though a longtime basketball player in his youth, Patrick’s three knee surgeries by the age of 18 stopped his athletic career short. After struggling with pain medication addiction and depression, Patrick soon became devoted to physical fitness and rehabilitation, now boasting an NBA-like 42-inch vertical jump. He developed ATG Online Coaching, working to restore the quality of life in individuals struggling with knee injuries and bringing out their full physical potential. In addition to building his training system, Patrick has authored three books, Knee Ability Zero, Back Ability Zero, and ATG for Life, and he has gained a massive social media presence with over 2.5 million followers.  ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------ Lucy https://lucy.co/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tetragrammaton

0:02.0

Tetragrammaton

0:03.0

For me,

0:06.0

jumping, you grow up in basketball, you see Michael Jordan, you want to be able to jump high.

0:29.1

You kind of know some genetics are going to factor in.

0:32.2

So for me, once I started getting older, getting into high school, I was kind of the kid

0:36.6

made fun of who couldn't jump high

0:37.9

Couldn't touch the rim. Could you ever jump high before that? No, so I was never a high jumper and then even by high school I already had chronic knee pain

0:45.7

So it's like being made fun of for not being able to jump high lowest jumper on the team but I'm trying to work on it

0:52.3

Which is only beating up my knees more.

0:55.0

Yeah. So it took this kind of not being a natural jumper, but trying to work at it really hard.

1:00.1

Yeah. All these jumping drills. Yeah. But not knowing how to strengthen my knees. So it just got worse. So rather than getting better.

1:07.4

So would you say you had bad information? I mean, there was no data at the time,

1:11.5

at least broadly available, on strengthening your knees.

1:14.6

And basketball, if you look at someone jumping,

1:17.5

your knees don't bend all the way down.

1:19.8

So with basketball, it's played up high.

1:23.0

And if you just do more and more and more of that,

1:26.2

well, millions of other people have gotten knee pain from that too.

1:29.8

And there wasn't broad information at the time

1:31.6

of things I could do to balance that out.

1:34.0

So, okay, going backward with the sled,

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