How to End Knee Pain, Increase Your Vertical, and Develop Athleticism w/ Knees Over Toes Guy, Ben Patrick, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash Barbell Shrugged #584
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode features Ben Patrick ("Knees Over Toes Guy"), coach and founder of the "Athletic Truth Group."
Ben overcame debilitating knee and shin pain, as well as subsequent surgeries through a personal journey taking knee and foot strength training means to their fullest potential. Ben transformed his basketball career, going from being continually injured and under-achieving to having a successful junior college stint through improving his own knee health and performance. This culminated for Ben with a scholarship offer to Boston University for basketball, but due to NCAA eligibility rules, Ben turned it down and began training athletes.
In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- Common misconceptions about knee pain
- Why knees over toes is the answer to ending knee pain.
- Baseline exercises for rebuilding the knee from pain to performance
- Why walking backwards is often missed for ending knee pain
- The importance of sprinting for increasing performance
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Coach Travis Mash on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family this week on barbell shrug Ben Patrick before we get into all the good stuff |
| 0:06.0 | I had a baby this week that means |
| 0:09.6 | Life is really crazy right now. So we are holding off on the diesel dad podcast this week. I am doing these |
| 0:16.1 | Reads right now from my house. I just got home from the hospital baby arrived 10 days early |
| 0:22.4 | mom's super healthy mom's super happy babies even cooler and |
| 0:26.0 | We have a baby boy to add to the partner family, which is incredibly cool |
| 0:30.4 | Very very stoked for you to listen to this episode of barbell shrug Ben Patrick |
| 0:34.2 | I really believe is out there doing some work that is |
| 0:37.5 | Really incredible. There's very few times that we're coming across people in |
| 0:42.5 | 2021 and strengthening the conditioning that are doing things that are like radically different and |
| 0:46.9 | Really cool and helping a ton of people. So if you have knee pain if you are interested in |
| 0:51.7 | Performance make sure you go check him out knees over toes guy on Instagram |
| 0:55.2 | and I really think that this this episode here is going to change your |
| 1:01.3 | Perception of knee training understanding the joint how you can progress movement |
| 1:05.2 | I have many friends that have injuries to their knees from football and high school in college and |
| 1:12.7 | Turned them both on to his method. So if you have knee problems if you are interested in |
| 1:18.6 | Bull proofing your knees make sure you listen to this and the partner family is a plus one right now |
| 1:26.1 | So these all that podcasts and the YouTube stuff is all on |
| 1:29.1 | Delay until next week until I get back to regular life a little bit and |
| 1:33.2 | I appreciate everybody sticking around appreciate you letting me be a part of your |
| 1:37.8 | Fitness education and life is really good right now for |
| 1:41.0 | We're home everyone's healthy everyone's happy and |
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