Matt Jordan: What Every Athlete Gets Wrong About Power

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.7 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

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What if everything you think you know about injury and recovery is wrong? Ben Pakulski sits down with world-class sports scientist Matt Jordan to unpack the real science behind power, injury risk, and staying athletic after 40. They cover eccentric training, why braking force is the most overlooked quality in human performance, and what an NHL player's three-year comeback taught them about precision load management. If you train hard and want to stay that way, this conversation will change how you think about your body.

5 Bullet Points:

Muscle power drops twice as fast as strength
Your jump pattern reveals hidden injury risk
Eccentric overload drove 30% power gains
Unilateral training stops nervous system compensation
Gait predicts overload before pain appears

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About Ben

Ben Pakulski is the Chief Performance Officer to elite executives, successful entrepreneurs, and top athletes.With over 25 years of experience, he coaches high achievers to build the physical, psychological, and metabolic resilience required to lead at the highest level. As the creator of the Muscle Intelligence framework, Ben specializes in aligning biology and behavior to drive sustained peak performance. His mission is to redefine what's possible for people in their prime and push the boundaries of human potential.

Guest Bio

Matt Jordan is one of Canada's leading sports scientists and strength coaches, specializing in biomechanics, injury rehabilitation, and elite athletic performance. Based at the University of Calgary, his research focuses on eccentric muscle function, ACL injury prevention, and precision load management. He has worked with Olympic athletes, NHL players, and elite alpine ski racers, helping some of sport's most complex injury cases return to competition. A former mentee of Charles Poliquin, Matt brings rare scientific depth and genuine coaching mastery to every conversation.

Time Stamps:

00:00 Intro

04:35 Imaging ACL Morphology

07:36 Rebuilding Movement Patterns

11:29 Precision Load Tracking

21:03 Mindset Shapes Physiology

28:55 EMG Jump Power Testing

39:11 Unloading and Braking

41:28 Unimodal vs Bimodal Curves

43:21 EMG and Pre Activation

45:13 Cueing New Jump Strategy

47:14 Injury Style Jump Profile

50:33 Eccentric Leg Press Machine

01:16:39 Tissue Quality and Recovery

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Muscle Intelligence Podcast. If you or anyone you know and love has ever
0:04.8	experienced a knee issue or has ever wanted to be an athlete, this podcast is going to be very interesting to you.
0:12.0	Today, we're a special edition of the podcast where we're off-site, actually flew into Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to speak with the legend himself.
0:19.3	Dr. Matt Jordan. Matt is the guy when it comes to ACL repairs ACL
0:24.6	science and ultimately the science of bringing athletes back to sport faster, bigger, stronger than ever.
0:32.3	Matt literally walks us through his lab and walks out of my head coach as Gavinetory through his exact protocol,
0:38.0	his exact mindset to optimize ACL repair, reconstruction, and ultimately returning to sport.
0:43.4	If you are able, I would suggest heading over to YouTube to watch his video because you get to watch
0:48.2	Matt and actually got to watch GAV in action and what get to watch us have a little bit of a
0:52.6	carve session. We get to carve it up a little bit
0:54.3	in the lab itself. Cool spot. What an incredible honor to go where all this incredible science has done. So if you're someone who's in an athletic arena in any way, whether it be professional sports, rehab, physical therapy, you've heard of Dr. Matt Jordan. If you haven't, you want to. Dr. Matt is the guy when you talk to the guys at the top of any Olympic team and you talk to anyone at the
1:13.0	top of any pro sports't, you want to. Dr. Matt is the guy. When you talk to the guys at the top of any
1:11.1	Olympic team and you talk to anyone at the top of any pro sports team, when it comes to understanding
1:16.1	knee mechanics, when it comes to understand preventing ACL breakdown, preventing ACL injuries,
1:22.8	then Dr. Matt is the absolute guy. So I hope we do an incredible job of bringing you some wisdom.
1:27.4	And if we want to explore this topic further, head over to muscle intelligence.com
1:30.7	slash podcast to get the show notes. Also a special shout out to our incredible sponsors for
1:35.8	this show, Troscriptions. You guys have seen me on my social media lately walking around
1:40.2	with a blue tongue. I've been running my own personal experiment on this crazy blue dye
1:44.9	that is supposed to be useful for improving our mitochondrial function. Here's what I've discovered.
1:50.4	I do not like methylene blue pre-workout. I love methylene blue in the afternoon or evening.
1:56.2	When I'm starting to get that little afternoon low, when generally I'm like, oh, you know, I need a little
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