SDP Episode 20: Sports Injuries

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tim and Doc Talk about how to avoid injuries in training and how to train if you are injured.

Tim Kennedy’s legend began at his local Army recruiter’s office on September 12th, 2001. His training to earn his Green Beret was featured in the book “Chosen Soldier.” Kennedy is now a Ranger qualified Special Forces Sniper with deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and multiple other deployments around the world. He is the only soldier to win the grueling 3 day All Army Combatives Tournament three times. Kennedy has a black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Modern Army Combatives. He is also one of the top ranked mixed martial arts fighters in the world, a position he achieved while simultaneously serving his country at the highest levels of special operations. He is currently ranked among the top Middleweights in the UFC. Tim has been featured on many television shows, most recently “Hunting Hitler” on the History Channel

Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars with Tim Kennedy on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to the sheepdog project doc here coming at you with my good friend Tim Kennedy.
0:14.0	Always a pleasure to be here.
0:17.0	How you feeling today?
0:20.0	It's Thursday.
0:21.0	Yeah.
0:22.0	And three training sessions today, two yesterday, two Tuesday, two Monday, and then I did a really long ruck run on Sunday. So feel it. It's been hot as hell here in Texas. But really good. Like during this morning strict and conditioning session we did what we call the holy Trinity which was this
0:49.8	Sounds very unholy actually it was not holy a lot of a lot of people call it the trifecta of death or the the
0:55.9	What's the Bermuda triangle the devil's pitchfork?
1:00.4	Involved rowing sprintss, and eardine bikes.
1:05.0	So not great things that task you muscularly and...
1:09.0	And, I'll make tense cardio.
1:10.0	Yeah, massively.
1:12.0	So, there were these benchmarks that you had to be able to finish each
1:16.5	of the individual events and then cumulatively be able to beat all of the time together and you know broke records like type thing and the guys I was training with I crushed their souls then I ate their souls and I pooped out their souls and I tried to make them eat their own soul and uh...
1:32.4	so even though my body, I know my body is fatigued and taxed, I'm still putting out good volume of output.
1:42.0	Good.
1:43.0	Today for me, so today was day four, my fourth day in a row,
1:48.0	doing that new kettle routine I was telling you about.
1:51.0	So, crushed my soul the very first day. Yeah. Intensely crushed it and the second day was even worse. Third day was a little bit better and then I was actually dreading today because of how much harder it's only two workouts and you just alternate back and forth
2:07.3	Knowing how intense that second workout is I was dreading it and really surprised myself at how much easier it was. My form was better.
2:19.0	I had the advantage in there early on of watching myself in a mirror when I was doing it.
2:25.2	So really critiquing my form, having really good form today.
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