How To Prevent And Treat Sports Injuries While Improving Your Athletic Performance!

How do you handle injuries in sports? What should you be doing? What should you be thinking? I'm talking to one of the greatest human performance coaches in America today.
We're talking sports performance today with coach Ethan Banning our human performance coach. He's not just a strength and conditioning coach. He's also a human structural health specialist.
Talk to me about sports injuries. We have a running back and he's got a bad ankle. I'm trying to tell him, get off his ankle. We don't want to completely shut it down because we want to keep those motor functions going. But how much is too much? How much is not enough?

Man, those are fantastic questions. I think a lot of people want to know that information. They are the $64,000 question, if you will. I believe strongly in making sure that we have high activity. If I have an injury to my shoulder not my person. So I have lots of other things I can do. I can be walking mileage. He can still get blood flow going he can still do things to improve himself. There's so many aspects of the sport that can be done that have nothing to do with physical movement. What books are you reading? What personal development are you doing? There are always things to be working on.
I always contend it's better to rest a week too long, and then come back a moment too early. Because then three weeks into the season, we still have a nagging injury. Now, a week off doesn't mean a week of nothing, it means maybe we're riding the bike, maybe we're doing the arm bike, maybe we're doing pre-habilitative, or in this case, rehabilitative neuromuscular re-education movements.

When the ankle goes out of its intended range of motion, it trains the brain that that is now okay for that ankle to move that far, when it's actually not. So we've got to teach it better control. In rehab we're teaching these proprioceptive musculature to connect with our brain, again. To have control of the end ranges.
Beyond that, taking some advice from somebody with some wisdom. That's the reason that we started EliteAthletestv.com.
It's one thing to be tough. It's another thing to be intelligent. Hopefully we can blend those two things. So I like to use a term called retro grade analysis. It's what chess grand masters use when they're putting you in checkmate. And they work from checkmate backward. And so I want to I want to ask this young man what he's trying to achieve? Where's he trying to be in December or November? Then work backward to get him where he needs to be.

A key point that integrated with our strength conditioning, is pre-habilitative, what we call reset movements that help protect our athletes from injury and help them improve their performance. We integrate prehab exercises with performance in a manner that's efficient and effective to develop athletes in a holistic manner. The thing that I always thought was missing throughout training over the years was preventing injuries. So making sure that we designed a program that would be develop the athlete to protect themselves, we're looking to create an athlete that we can protect to the best of our ability. We want to improve performance to the best of our ability. I'm super proud of the program that we developed to help athletes mitigate injury and improve performance at the same time. super critical.

In the agility training on the field, what can athletes do to get their bodies right going?

I think that it's really critical to understand both force application which is performance, and then force absorption, which is injury prevention. I see lots of jumping videos on YouTube, and people that are just really bastardizing a jump. But there's not a lot of information about how to land properly. So when you look at how to absorb force properly, and then reapply force, that's where we're really doing a nice job of preparing the athlete for sport now. Making sure that we're developing force application and force absorption capability is so critical. And just one example of that is how we plant and redirect.
I see far too many people working on all horsepower, no brakes, and the car can't stop so it's going to wreck. I make sure that we are working on all aspects of that car, tires transmission, engine and brakes. The entire system has to work congruently for that car to perform on the racetrack.

If you are looking to help your players get better. It's in the link down below. I'm telling you, it will blow you away in terms of how much thought has gone into Coach Banning's programming I played football for 11 years professionally. I played five years of college football. I have announced professionally both pro and college football. I have never heard never seen anybody training, the redirect the absorption landing how do you land coming off of a box jump? I love having Coach Banning on every time talking about sports performance training, making athletes better, improving conditioning, improving speed, and improving toughness.