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🗓️ 15 June 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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NIck Fowler, (@thenickfowler) our Director of Strength & Conditioning, and Dr. Sean Pastuch (@activelifeRX) our Head Mobility Coach, are on the show to discuss the CrossFit Regional pec tears. We dissect the possibilities for the 30 or so pec injuries this year and what can be done now in order to reduce injuries within your training. Enjoy the show!
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Topics of discussion:
[2:01] All possible reasons for the pec tears
[6:50] Psychological effect of competition
[9:50] Inherent risk in the sport
[11:12] Full range of motion and spending time at your end ranges
[17:04] History of this particular test
[20:05] Finding a common thread among the athletes
[28:47] Injury prevention in your training
[34:16] George Sanchez: The poster child for building a foundation
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is Mike Kaju, and this is the Brut Strength Podcast. |
0:03.6 | This is a special episode of the podcast. |
0:06.0 | I'm joined by Brute Director of Strength and Conditioning, |
0:10.0 | Nick Fowler, and one of the co-founder of Active Life Rx, Sean Pastooch. |
0:16.8 | And we're talking about the Peck Tears. |
0:19.8 | If you're not familiar with what I'm talking about in this crossfit in the in the 2017 |
0:25.1 | Crossfit regionals I think there were over 30 men with either torn or |
0:31.4 | partially torn or just injured pecks from the dip workout or muscle up workout or a combination of the two. |
0:39.0 | So it's been a really controversial topic and people have been asking is Dave Castro just a dick |
0:44.8 | is it terrible programming what is causing these things to happen so in this |
0:51.2 | episode we talk about some of the possible reasons and how to prepare yourself and your athletes to prevent injury in the future. |
1:01.6 | Hope you enjoy the show. We are live. All right guys, thanks for joining us. Today we're going to talk about all the Pectares. I remember thinking to myself originally when I you know the first weekend I think we had like eight or something like that and I initially thought |
1:22.2 | Dave Castro is an idiot, what's he doing? This is just a terrible, you know, he's a terrible person. |
1:30.0 | He's irresponsible for programming this way and since then you know we've had a lot of time to discuss |
1:37.6 | what's really going on here and you know it's been a really hot topic in the community. |
1:43.4 | So I've changed my views a little bit, |
1:45.6 | and I know both of you have a ton of knowledge |
1:49.2 | on this topic, and we've been talking about it a ton. |
1:51.4 | So we know that you are interested in this so we're going to |
1:55.8 | dissect a little bit so first off what what are all of the possible reasons that people are getting these pectaries? |
2:05.0 | Oh man, I think I think it's well I'll so my opinion as I think it's it's very individually dependent right like and Sean you can be able to talk in a lot more detail to this but |
2:20.4 | Everyone's will so differently their training histories are so different right the types of injuries that are occurring they're not just all pectaries right they're peck injuries or strains or something |
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