Reverse Athletic Training for Enhanced Performance
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Reverse Athletic Training for Enhanced Performance

The episode starts with an introduction and an overview of the concept of backwards movement. The discussion delves into the benefits and techniques of walking backwards, particularly for knee health and athletic performance. Practical advice is given on how to incorporate backwards movement into family fitness routines. The conversation expands to cover topics such as metabolic flexibility, muscle building, and the role of vitamin D in outdoor exercise. (0:00) Introduction and Overview of Backwards Movement (0:09) Benefits and Techniques of Walking Backwards for Knee Health and Athletic Performance (2:10) Incorporating Backwards Movement into Family Fitness Routines (3:06) Metabolic Flexibility, Muscle Building, and the Role of Vitamin D in Outdoor Exercise

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Welcome to Full Field, baby.

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With your host, Matt Tag.

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Catch up.

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Oh, shoot.

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Who are you?

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I'm Doctor Alfred Lessi.

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Backwards today.

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Yeah.

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Why are you walking backwards?

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Man, this is great for my knees, bro.

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Yeah.

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You ever, do you ever watch that guy, Ben Patrick?

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At this concept, just working your knees, putting yourself in agile environments.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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And so, you know, the little muscles around your knees and especially the quadriceps are

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not little, they're bigger muscles that support that knee, getting those strong, but stable at

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the same time.

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I mean, I'll do it before workout.

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I'll just do like, usually on an incline.

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Obviously, this is flat, so we try to get a little pace going, but I'm on my toes right

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now.

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So you've been unloading through the toes.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, man, ultimately getting this knee strong.

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It's been freaking working wonders, man.

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Well, you're flying, bro.

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I'm trying to keep up

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to you.

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Yeah.

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You good?

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No.

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But, like, even playing basketball, right, one of the things that you know, we both love doing

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is playing basketball.

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And guys never even think about just you gotta be jogging back where training backwards.

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Yeah.

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You

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know, that's something LeBron James does all the time.

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They're working on that backwards momentum.

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Right?

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I wanna be at pace with a guy that's coming full speed down court.

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Yeah.

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Again, goes back to our forever athlete concept of, like, how are we how are we putting

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ourselves in environments?

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Yeah.

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And this is stupid easy.

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You know, I'm jogging.

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I'm doing whatever, but I wanna make sure that I'm maintaining that level of activity Yeah.

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Of where I put myself into that dynamic environment of competition.

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Because the reality is I I still wanna compete.

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You know, I'm an athlete at the end of the day.

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How am I competing?

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And this is just a simple way whether I'm like jogging.

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Right?

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Going with the little pace is good, you know, getting it

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getting it in.

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Push off.

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Yeah.

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100%, man.

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So it's one of those things where it's gonna It's gonna allow me to optimize in my game.

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I tell everyone, just try

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it out.

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Right?

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Like, it's one of those things that you don't really think it it just sounds cool and

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whatever, but, like, try it.

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Try and

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you experience it and you're like, wow, my knee actually does feel good.

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Yeah.

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I have a difficult concept to understand.

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I mean,

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I put a clip the other day, just on Facebook, because one of the things that I love doing is

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I love getting my daughter involved.

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And so she sees me.

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So she's on her bike, but, dude, I'm I'm just turning around and I'm I'm freaking running

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maybe, like, a tenth of a mile, maybe even a quarter of a mile backwards, preparing my body.

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But it dude, you're already breathing a little heavy.

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Like, this is these are the type of things that you can do stupid easily.

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Does your knee feel

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right now?

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Dude, phenomenal.

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I feel really good too.

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Yeah.

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It's nice and warm.

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Love it, man.

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It's just one of those things where I just you know, I wanna put myself in dynamic

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environments that are gonna allow, allow me to optimize when I'm in game, in game activity,

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how am I preparing in the game.

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Right?

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Like, if I'm, like, having a back pedal on someone, like, I was hoping this morning, and

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me usually would, honestly, back in the past, I went ahead some injuries.

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It would hurt doing that.

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Yeah.

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But playing this morning man felt fine.

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It's because I've trained that to be able to take it now.

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Yeah.

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So and this is what ultimately comes down to is, like, being metabolically flexible, right,

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at the end of the day, like, you wanna make sure the internal, but the external is ready to

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go.

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Yeah.

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You're building that muscle supply.

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You're loading the glutes at the same time when you're going backwards.

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You know what else we're doing now?

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We're getting

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some vitamin d.

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Like, we're in the sun right now.

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So, like, I'm fueling my body with some vitamin d.

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Breathing exercise.

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Man, it's a beautiful day.

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We've been

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in the office all freaking day lately, so we're building a lot of big things.

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We're working on a lot of stuff, helping a lot of people, but We gotta get out and make sure

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we're

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taking care of ourselves.

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That's what we're here.

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100%, man.

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And this is ultimately, you know, this is we wanna bring in the lifestyle aspect.

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Of what we do on a daily basis, and we're shooting some content just going backwards.

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I hope you guys got some value out of this at the end of the day.

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I'm about to make a jig turn

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around and of course not.

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Jake, you're going backwards.

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So Alright.

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I'll go backwards.

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Let's go, boy.

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