Knees Over Toes Guy | The #1 Exercise You MUST Be Doing That You're Probably NOT! |EP 373

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What if the solution to your chronic knee pain lies in how you exercise the often-neglected body parts, like your toes, feet, and ankles Whatever pain you're going through, there's always someone who can offer the tools for your own breakthrough. Ben Patrick (known online as "Knees Over Toes Guy"), the founder and CEO of Athletic Truth Group (ATG), worshipped basketball since he was a kid, but at 9 years old, chronic knee problems started crushing his dreams…or so he thought. By 18, he had 3 surgical knee alterations and decided to quit basketball. Driven to heal himself naturally, Ben experimented with unorthodox methods and was introduced to Charles Poliquin's "knees over toes" training techniques - something prohibited in college sports. Despite criticisms, Ben kept doing his training and regained his athleticism. At 21, he was offered a full-ride basketball scholarship and transformed his basketball career. Not long after, Ben needed to let go of a full-ride D1 scholarship because of NCAA eligibility rules. Not to mention his strength coach then was against his knees over toes training, too. Now in his 30s, Ben has a record-breaking 42-inch vertical jump even elite NBA players find hard to top. On a mission to educate people and alleviate the epidemic of knee surgeries, he spends countless hours producing free content and designing programs based on the knees over toes approach. Ben's methods focus on transforming one's athleticism by strengthening the body from the ground up, which means re-integrating the toes, feet, ankles, and the anterior tibialis. He explains why we need to practice walking backward and reveals the secrets to pain-free knees by doing backward sled drags and split squats. Our conversation gets more personal as Ben reveals the driving force behind his epic wins and how he deals with pain and failures. He also looks back on his battle with depression and painkiller addiction and shares the most important lesson he learned from it. What we discuss: 00:00 - Introduction to Ben Patrick 4:00 - What does "knees over toes" training mean? 8:50 - Reversing pain through manual therapy 13:00 - Exercises to banish your knee pain & reveal your weak spots 16:20 - What split squats are for & why you need to work on your anterior tibialis 18:15 - How to drastically improve your vertical leap & dunk like the world's top jumpers 20:00 - How to relieve tight hip flexors + Glute workout that’s perfect for the elderly 22:20 - No-nonsense tips to staying driven & motivated 27:00 - The "Sled" Metaphor: How to find light in your life's darkest moments 31:00 - Debunking popular myths about movement & sports training 33:50 - Why you need both strength & flexibility in sports & life 36:20 - Training advice for athletes & sports enthusiasts Learn more from Ben Patrick: Website: www.atgonlinecoaching.com/ Youtube: TheKneesovertoesguy Instagram: @kneesovertoesguy Book: “ATG For Life” by Ben Patrick Related Links: The revised version of the Align Method book is now available with 22 brand-new exercises! Pre-order here: alignpodcast.com/alignbook .alignpodcast.com/alignmethod for a special discount drinkLMNT.com/align for a FREE sample pack of LMNT RECHARGE magbreakthrough.com/alignpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Lyme Podcast, my name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body and movement. Today's episode is with my new friend. I feel like we are kindred spirits in many ways.
0:16.2	Ben Patrick, also known as Knee's Overto's Guy. He is a tremendous human being. I truly mean that that it is rare to come across people as
0:25.4	authentic kind feels like I don't know he's almost like saintly in a strange weird way
0:32.2	he is very excited to be of support to those around him.
0:36.3	I got a message from him after we spent the afternoon recording and working out and
0:41.3	everything and one of the things he mentioned in the message was that he considers his friendships to be his well which I think is a really meaningful concept idea a way to live your life.
0:51.0	So Ben Patrick very endearing character and this conversation we get into some of the theory in the background behind the concept of knees over toes and how this got kind of washed away from a fitness culture for a long time and some of the many
1:07.0	holes that were in much of the research that would suggest that the knees drifting beyond the
1:11.6	toes would be deleterious for the knee because it puts more stress in the knee.
1:15.0	But as we all know, putting stress on a tissue is what causes that tissue to build back stronger.
1:21.6	The difference is the tissue prepared for the stress. So if you are
1:26.0	loading a bunch of weight, you're going a big heavy squat and you are dumping your knees forward in that. It's too much stress too soon.
1:33.3	That's problematic.
1:34.2	So it's not that we only exclusively
1:36.6	should be going knees over toes all the time.
1:38.3	It's not that we only exclusively
1:40.0	should be hinging our hips back
1:41.6	and keeping the knees behind to put more weight into the hips.
1:44.8	It really, it's, they're different tools and so I think that Ben has been just an immensely
1:50.3	valuable figure in the world of health wellness fitness obviously but also
1:55.6	longevity for our parents and ourselves and elderly so I am immensely excited to
2:00.9	share this with you guys also if you want to see me get absolutely destroyed
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