This is Ben Greenfield. I'm here with Brian Rhodes, pro triathlete from

Tapo, New Zealand. Brian's been one of the top hire men triathletes for many

many years and he's got some great stuff to share with us today but first thing

is what I hear word on the street is that you've been dealing with a little bit

of a nagging injury Brian. You want to tell me about that?

Yeah I've had a bit of a bad start ever since

last August I tore my gas stock and my lovely big calves that I have and I've

been struggling to get it right and yeah just an ongoing injury that's been

incredibly frustrating and finally got the good diagnostics from PC

and I think we're on the road to getting back to where I should be.

You know Brian actually had a chance to come up here and race Iron Man

Cortalaine a few weeks ago and I noticed that he was using a lot of

different types of techniques to actually help him out with his injury and that's

one of the things that I like to tell people about here at Ben Greenfield

Fitness.com is how to treat some of the nagging eggs and pains they

might have and I don't know what kind of things you've been trying out Brian.

I was doing the usual sort of stuff ultrasound,

muscle stem but I even went using the trigger point

walls and things to try and speed up anything. Basically I was looking for

anything can never even turn to compression socks and all sorts of things

you know I thought that was actually a bunch of euro

stretchy sort of looking garbage but I'm sort of an advocate now.

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