Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I am your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a guest interview for you.

Today's guest is Brody Sharp.

For those of you who've been listening

to the podcast for a while, you'll probably recognize that name as Brody has been on the podcast

a couple times in the past for episodes 240 and at 258. So if you enjoy this episode and want to

hear more discussion with Brody, those would be some good ones to go check out.

Brody has a Bachelor of Health Science and Masters of Physiotherapy, and he is also the

founder of the Run Smarter series and hosts the Run Smarter Podcast. Brody recently took a lot of

the information that he's been sharing on his channels and put it in book form.

He sent me that book.

I gave it a read and I picked a few chapters that I thought would be especially interesting

to discuss in more detail with him and share with all of you.

Those topics include detecting and managing early signs of injury, training basics for injury reduction,

and strength training, and cross training. Within those topics, I found it especially interesting

to hear Brady describe a few things. One is his pain scale. So how do you determine whether a certain level of pain is appropriate to train through versus needing to stop? What type of pain do you maybe need to completely shut it down and avoid weight bearing altogether versus adding a stimulus to that area to help improve the recovery pace and eventually get you back to the activities that you enjoy.

And also this concept he has called the new adaptation zones, which is just basically like

same thing as training load, where if you remember in other pockets I've talked about, like,

proper training is going to be working within an intensity and training load and volume that is going

to work with you in terms of giving you enough stress to make an improvement but not so much

that you're setting yourself back or taking future workouts off the table.

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