FAKTR Podcast - Durability Over Dominance - Redefining Athlete Development with Matthew McKay, Part 3

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Hi everyone and welcome back to the FAKTR Podcast. I'm your host Jessica Riddle and today we're wrapping up our three part series with certified strength and conditioning specialist and chiropractic student Matthew McKay on durability over dominance.

What if the most important thing you.

Do for your athlete isn't on your treatment table or in the weight room, but in a conversation that you've been avoiding? If you've been with us for the first two episodes, you already know. This series has been full of powerful insights for anyone working with athletes, especially those in the high school and collegiate setting. In part one, we explored how to develop your own performance model. In part two, we talked about practitioner commitment and long term development. And now in part three we're taking it a step further with a focus on honest communication, athlete protection, and how to navigate tough conversations with sport coaches, parents and even the athletes themselves. This episode is all about showing up as an advocate not just for wins, but for wellness. You'll hear how constructive confrontation can be a powerful form of commitment, why recovery isn't optional, and how to make your voice heard without creating unnecessary conflict. Let's dive in.

One of the things that you mentioned was kind of having that transition from being a strength and conditioning coach to being a healthcare provider and how there has to be that communication and that symbiotic relationship. If a young practitioner or a new practitioner in practice was interested in working with young athletes, maybe they have a contact that is a coach or in strength and conditioning with a team or with individual athletes, how would you suggest they should broach that topic or approach that Conversation. Many times we hear of providers that will volunteer their services to maybe do a functional movement screening for the team or do maybe like a free workshop for the young athletes and their parents about throwing mechanics or things of that nature. Putting back on your strength and conditioning hat from your experience in that role, what would you suggest that you feel like would be an impactful and effective way for that healthcare provider to. To start that conversation with that strength and conditioning professional or the coach and.

Just make sure I understand this. Is the strength coach asking the healthcare provider to come help or are we trying to get into a space where we can shadow the healthcare provider? I'll do both. I'll do both, I think. One, if you're asking to get involved with shadowing someone, you have to be willing to sometimes do it on an internship. Not always fun. Okay. And again, I can tell you, my wife can tell you, my family can tell you, I have been the volunteer. I've been the unpaid intern.

I've been the intern. I've been part time, I've been full time. I've been the associate director. I've been all these places and high school, I've been a director. So you be you. You have to be willing to be in a space where you're taking this experience for the experience, not necessarily the pay. I know it's not fun, especially if you're older to do that, but you have to be in a space where you're willing to put the time in. The books are.

I've learned this about books versus experience. They're both valuable. The books are merely the guideline to normalcy. When you want to work with sports experience lets you know that there are some outliers out here who defy everything that book says when it comes to normalcy, not when it comes to physiological function. So you have to be willing to put time in if you want to get internships and opportunities. If you all need some resources, I'm fine with trying to connect you to people who I know. Again, those internships, especially with big sports, big college sports and NFL and NBA and those things, it might be a six month deal that can change your life. Don't mean deal by money.

I mean a six month experience that can change your life. As far as getting practitioners to come and work with us on the strength and conditioning side, I think that comes two parts. One, we have to be respectable. We have to be respectable. We have to study this. When I'll say it like this, you have to know as a strength coach, if you really Want to get the respect of the clinicians to really come and work with you and see what you're doing and come do functional movement screens and all those things. They have to want to invest into you. So you're going to have to know almost as much as the PTs, the OTs, the chiropractors.

You're going to have to know. Again, it goes back to what I was saying earlier. Speak the language. If you playing an Xbox, I hope it's just once, twice a month. I am not saying be a hermit and don't go do things like I love to go to the movies, I love to do things. I'm an introvert, to be honest. I know I'm extroverted on here, but I'm introvert. So I understand the importance of having quiet and downtime for sure.

But your downtime and quiet time can't always be spending five hours binge watching this series. And I again love movies. Your downtime can't be playing Xbox every Saturday for the first three or four hours of your day, maybe sparingly. But again, you're gonna have to speak their language to earn their respect. And once that relationship and rapport is built, then they'll more openly want to pour into and volunteer with you. And sometimes another way to approach that. Option two is go to them without expecting anything in return, go volunteer with them. If they're having a seminar or a session, go help with the setup, go help the breakdown.

And it's not trying to get brownie points, it's just to show them, hey, I'm invested into what you're doing and what you're able to provide. And I want to show you that especially for high school, you can be a benefit to these students lives for the rest of their life. I get them for four years, but what we teach them, they'll have for the remainder of their life. Okay, so number one, speak the language, put the time in. Do not be scared to intern. Most college coaches that you see these larger programs in NFL, ask them, they've interned, they've been the unpaid intern, they volunteer, they've done it. And I think that's one of the biggest hold up for youth who asked me all the time, how did you get such and such opportunity? How did you get to work pro sports? I was unpaid intern and I'm not going to do nothing for free. Well, hey, I'm not saying you won't make it there.

What I will say is your journey there outside of a huge blessing or work of God will be Very hard. Because they want to know, like the secret to getting to that level is this. They just want to know that you know how their system runs. Do you know when we travel with pro sports, we don't use the other team's athletic facility most of the time for rehab. People think you do. No, you go to whatever hotel. If the Texans will just make an example. The Texans go play the Rams, they're going to book out all their like ball rooms and they're setting up all those tables and all that stuff in there.

And sometimes they other team will let you use their stuff. Most of the time you're setting that stuff up yourself. You're booking out all the team of the ballrooms and conference rooms to set up treatment and recovery in there. So things like that, they just want to know that you know how that works. They don't expect you to know everything. But if you have no background in it and not aren't trying to get one in it, then it's going to be very hard for them to say yes to you. Because in their mind they feel like they can't work to their full capacity because they have to come back and not just teach you how they do what they do, they have to go back and teach you what to do. So that's the first space.

And then the second space is if you're doing it locally, spend time with that practitioner. Because we shouldn't just be contacting them just for something for us like. No, spend time with them. If you plan on being here for a while, you want the, the athletes and the parents to develop the relationship with that practitioner, not just with you. Because strength and conditioning, we're limited by scope of practice. We can only do so much. Even if you run an empty can, test for superspinatus on a athlete or quarterback and you're pretty sure he has a, a tear, a superspinatus tear, or even a labral injury. That's great for you to know, but you can't diagnose it.

So how do I build a relationship with people who can. And I can say, you need to go see Dr. Riddle. Yep. He'll be here Tuesday, as he is for every Tuesday practice from 5 until 6:30. But if, if you can't make it Tuesday or he can't, you need to go see him. And that's how you build it. You build that from.

I want to learn from you and get you invested into this particular school. I'm at, not just in me. If I do it the other way, get you invested into the school and you see what I'm doing here. Eventually they'll see, okay, what this person doing is working. So there's no shortcut. You got to spend time with them because. And I'll say this, and I'll be done with it. What I had to learn was when I was at Clemson was we're asking them to give us all the knowledge that they've gained.

And that's a lot of time they've had from being an unpaid intern themselves to having to move sometimes four years in a row to four different states. Right. We're asking them to just give us that because he worked for them. Now, that come with it. It came with a cost. The things I learned from Dr. Teter, who's in Spain, he's moved to a different country, having to learn culture over there and everything else, and he's mentoring me. But that come with a cost.

You could at least care about him some. Check on them, right? So. And it's hard in this society where we live in what is driven into us. If it ain't about the money, it ain't about me, or if it ain't, if I ain't getting nothing from it, then I ain't doing it at all. And it's hard to sometimes help young people or people who are coaching young athletes understand, like my old professor would tell me, who was also my strength coach for a while, is when you start to coach, you have to recognize one thing and one thing first. It's not about you because it's bigger than you, because you will be at the high school for three or four years, those athletes are going to graduate and keep living life. So that's the biggest piece. Understanding it's not about you because it's way bigger than you.

So get involved with shadowing. Also get your boots and get your hands dirty.

I love that. And that's something that we've had several guests on over the years that are in a role where they work with athletes, whether it's from a healthcare perspective or those that are a member of that sports medicine team. And that's the number one thing we've heard time and time again, especially from those that have reached the highest levels of elite athletics and performances, do the time, volunteer. From an education standpoint, one thing that you did mention was a lot of these strength coaches, the athletic staff, the teams themselves, the management, they're not going to want to have someone come on board and then have to teach them what to do. So you do certainly need to Come to the table with education that learn it or earn it principle. Right. Like you must come to the table with some type of official education and credential that you've gotten. Saying that proves that you know what you're talking about.

But then also sometimes that experience which is important and that hopefully is what you'll be building there. What would you recommend for someone who is a healthcare provider looking to start this journey? What type of continuing education do they need to take? What type of certifications or trainings? And this can be something that's offered within their specialty, within healthcare or even outside of that, such as in the strength and conditioning world. What would you recommend to them to take their education to the next level so that they can prove they, they have the credibility and the education to back up what they're saying?

Absolutely. I think if you're coming to, if you're coming to strength and conditioning. So maybe you were. I know someone who was a nurse and went back and did strength and conditioning and absolutely loved it. I know a friend of mine, Brianna Nicole Jefferson, she was the athletic trainer for the Detroit Pistons. She was on staff for the Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Charlotte Bobcats as well. And now she is nurse practitioner. So it can go, like you said, either side.

If you're coming to strength and conditioning, then you plan on working with sports at high school or especially beyond high school level. And I don't say beyond like I'm putting down high school. No, that's why I started. What I'm saying is like college, community college, power five or conference of four everyday doing it. Now pro sports, you have to get to cscs and that having a CSCS through the nsca. So the National Strength and Conditioning association offers a certified strength and conditioning specialist credential that you have to have. That doesn't mean that everyone who has it is this walking, brilliant machine of knowledge. And it doesn't mean that if someone doesn't have their CSCs that they do not know what they're talking about in the weight room.

No, the cscs. I'll tell you what it is. This is just being candid. It is a huge form of insurance for the NSCA and for colleges. Not physical insurance, but literally it's saying that, hey, you have not only got your background and stuff, you sat for a board exam to exemplify that you know how to train an athlete safely under standard protocol in a weight room or any athletic setting. That's why they make you have the cscs. If you want to work at High school sports and you don't want to get that NASM is a great route. So certified personal trainer, pes, so performance enhancement specialist, those things like that.

So college and above, you're going to have to get that cscs. And again I'll reiterate, just because someone has it doesn't mean they know what they're talking about. You know what you're talking about because you know what you're talking about. If you ask me how to fly a jet, I don't care how many credentials I have, we're not getting off the ground because I don't know what I'm talking about in that space. And just because you give me an award that says I do well, put me in the jet and let's see if it takes off, doesn't, right. But if I have served in the Air Force and actually been a fighter pilot, well then that credential matches. So you have to have that high school again. You want to have your some type of credential that says this person has sat for an exam and show that they have the space to do it.

If you're going from strength and conditioning to the healthcare side depend, you have to, you have to know what you want to do. Like if you want to go back and be a doctor of anything, doctor, osteopath, doctor, chiropractic doctor, physical therapy, you have to go back to school. And it is tough when you leave a full time job to go back to rationing, financial aid, refund checks. Yeah, it's a tough thing. But if you know down the road this is what you're called to do because I had to realize, like I'm called not crazy. You're in a space where sometimes you feel crazy chasing this stuff. Like I'm at an unpaid intern internship for five months and I'm staying in the Shield because you can't afford housing in some of these states and there are no like four month leases. But they do have a shelter across the street that I can.

And it sounds absolutely crazy and people would say you are out of your mind. But then they see you on the back end and you're going to leave. Seminars at Florida State and everywhere else and they're like, man, how did you do it? The crazy part. But then you realize in that I'm not crazy, man, I'm called to it. So if you want to go from strength coach to practitioner, you're going to have to figure out what first, first piece is. What do you want to specialize in? Is it Chiropractic care, is it orthopedics, is it rehab or PT or what do you want to do so things that you can do as you're figuring it out. Again, I can't push enough factor cchp because those expose you to the different elements that you'll be getting into in these programs. Because again, what I've learned is when you remove the middleman, you become it, right? It's no different than if you jack a car up and you take the jack from under it and you got it on the jack stand.

Well, that jack stand is all is holding all the weight. Now if you have a jack stand down there and the jack itself, if one goes, you have the other, right? In the best case, best case scenario. But when you remove the jack, there's only that stand and now all the weight is sitting on. That sounds like a lot and it could be scary, but if you say the jack stand upright is designed to hold that capacity weight for the vehicle. So if you're going from strength and conditioning to healthcare provider, you need to figure out what vein you want to be in. Because if not, you'll spend a year in PT school and say, oh well, it's not this enough. You'll come to chiropractic school and say, I thought I was going to learn how to adjust people in rehab and I'm learning about microbiology my first year, I don't want to do it. And you'll bounce from program to program to program.

Not because you're not competent, no, you're plenty smart. It's because you don't know what you want to do. And when you find out what you want to do, wake up every day and chase it like your life depends on it. Because the this is just personal. Like the U 10 years from now is dependent on you today to do his job. I can think of a person who got a job interview who works at a huge college Power 5 football program and they got a call and said, hey, we just let go of our stream. Coach, we want to bring you in. Never met the coach.

Heard, said, we heard about you through the last coach that is leaving here. We want to interview you tomorrow. Not making this up. What's your availability tomorrow? And if not tomorrow, what's your availability for Wednesday? Be ready. Okay? But that comes from just chasing it. And again, don't be a hermit because you have to interact with people. But at the same time, man, you gotta want this better than somebody else do because their phone ring more than one time, meaning they can Call you and call somebody else too. So you're not trying to out compete anybody or be the greatest ever or better than anybody else.

Be the greatest you can be. And that comes with time. Reality is you gotta be exceptional. If you want to go and work with pro sports, you gotta be exceptional. And I mean perfect. But it's gonna be a lot of people. I think about Dr. Riddle and Dr.

Teeter exceptional. And guess what? I got some catching up to do with them. I'm still great at what I do, but I'm not them yet. So in that space I'm in a place where I'm seeing, okay, I'm here, this is really good. But they here so you can just kind of see. But I'll never get from here to here if like I said, I'm on Xbox all day or at a party every weekend or something. You have to be willing to sacrifice it. So Strength coach two practitioner, you got to figure out what you want your specialty to be.

And if you're going from practitioner to strength coach, you need to go get your credentials early credentials to get started.

I love that and I think that's really great advice. Kind of set your goal for your future self for that you 10 years from now so that you can reverse engineer that and figure out what you need to do today and then consistently along the path to get there. So we only have a few minutes left. So guys, if you have any additional questions, please utilize that chat feature to enter those comments. But we had one that I thought would be kind of interesting now that you've given a little bit of advice about other people and how they should approach these scenarios. We'd like to hear a little bit more about your journey. How did you go from being an accomplished strength and conditioning coach to making the decision to say, hey, I want to further my education. I want to enroll in chiropractic school, and I'd love to know a little bit more about what other potential healthcare roles you were considering and what finally helped you arrive at the decision you made.

Oh, yeah. All right. With this question, I will say, man, I've never been the person that has to know the most in the room because when I, when you get to that point, if you, if you know everything well, the more than everybody in every room, at what point do you, do you grow and watch this, at what point do you self care? Okay, if I'm in every room that I'm in on the most knowledgeable, all knowing, yada, yada, yada, well, that means I have to make every decision, which I'm not against decision making. I got hired at these places for a reason. But you have to make every decision. You have to sign every piece of paperwork, you have to do everything. And so it's not being lazy. It's just at some point you gotta rest.

You have to self care on the self care side, but on the performance side, man, you. What point are you growing? All right, so I've, I said to say this, I've never been the one who has to know everything and. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's just I always wanted to know a little bit more. Okay. I'm the first person. My dad taught me how to work on cars growing up. So.

Changing oil sparks, transmission fluid clock springs, changing the airbags out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, do all that. But when it come to certain things, like taking the motor apart, I'm sending it right to Ford or wherever, the Toyota Ram, whoever you have, because I don't have to know everything. But I do recognize that analogy. Hope is making some sense here. Like, I knew I always wanted to know a little bit more and not necessarily more than the next person, but no more than what I already knew. So I got to a point where I realized I was doing seminars for corrective exercise. I was doing programming strategy seminars for PTs and OTs.

I was able to sit with the Physical Therapy association, the National Physical Therapy association, to talk about potential seminars and was able to do one. And so you get in a space where one of my old supervisors asked me, when you gonna start playing and it was that that clear? It wasn't grammatically correct. And Socrates would have said it this way. No, it was that straightforward. When you gonna stop playing? That's what he mean. You're teaching doctors what you do. You're not teaching them how to be doctors, Matt. You're teaching them what you do.

And it's working. And they're coming back and asking you, can we fly you out and do it again? And then they're saying, hey, well, for my company, can I fly you to Jersey to go teach them this thing? And you're not seeing what you could be because you're only viewing where you are. So if you would go and become the doctor that I think you already are, you would find that you can do a whole lot more for people than you already are. I was like, yeah, okay, maybe. Yeah, there's some truth that maybe. And I just kind of sat with that thought for the longest. And I always knew I wanted to be doctoral side. I don't know if it was going to be PhD physiology or exercise fees or whatever else, but I always knew.

So the first part of the question, I. I've always wanted to more. I've always had this yearning to know more. Like, quarterbacks can't do X, Y and Z with the shoulder because of this injury. But why? And I'm not trying to learn it down to the cellular level because this sale does that. No, but I want to know why. So when I'm programming, I understand and I can back what I'm doing. Hey, this is best for your, your child long term.

Here's why. Boom, boom, boom, boom. So that's the first piece that drove me. So initially, when I first went to college, everyone was big. Physical therapy, physical therapy, physical therapy. And I'm not using that face or that tone to knock physical therapy. No, I'm just saying, a lot of high school students, you ask, who want to work in sports, you ask them, oh, what do you want to do? Physical therapy. Okay, well, what branch of it? I don't know.

Sports. Okay, what do you want to specialize in rehab, or so you get in these spaces where you don't know. In my mind, I considered physical therapy, but I was looking into it and auditing some classes. I learned that I wanted to use more manual interventions to help. I started to work shadows, chiropractors and whatnot. And I learned that this kind of blends what I want to do. It's certainly rehab like we do in physical therapy, but it's certainly hands on too because now I can use different type of manual therapies and strategies to help in some ways provide instant change. I say change, I emphasize that because it's not an instant cure every time.

If someone's having cervicals in the headaches, yes, most of the time. If there are no red flags when we think about Snoop, shout out to Dr. Riddle for that headache red flags, you can adjust them and if it works, the headache goes away. But that doesn't mean it fix the problem. If they have weak anterior cervical muscles of the neck, well, that might be aiding to it. If they have upper cross syndrome, that might be aiding to it. So for me, chiropractic allows you to dig into just more than the treatment option, which would be come in and do five sets of this for 10 minutes and do two sets of that for eight minutes and we'll see you for the next six months doing the same thing. For some people that works perfect.

But I know chiropractic care, we can do that. And we can also do things such as adjusting or you manipulation or adjusting where we can help out. So chiropractic gave me more than one way to get home. And I think I like the option of going to the left and getting on the belt loop to go home or going to the right and taking your little country road to get home. So that's why I value chiropractic in a way. And I love to use my hands. So I have adhd. I know everyone says that and as a joke, no, I do have it.

I also have delayed processing this order. So if you are someone who has any kind of learning disability, you can still do it, you can still become a doctor, figure out how that works for you and just fight, fight your butt off. Doctor told my parents when I was young, he won't read past a sixth grade reading level. And I didn't for a while until I figured it out. So again, always being a fighter and always having to figure out, well, what else can work with this learning style doesn't work at all doing really bad, but I figured out this one does. When I started looking at chiropractic care, it was more than just the basic cookie cutter. One set of this, two sets of that, it was very much so. Well, you can do this and that, but if it doesn't work, you can try these two things and figure out a formula that does work.

So that's kind of like strength and conditioning too. Strength and conditioner opened up the chiropractic doors for me big time because strength and conditioning. This may work for this athlete, but not that athlete. So I. That's how I got into it. One, I realized I was doing the same thing for other doctors and it was working. So I knew I wasn't a fool. What I'm doing is very valuable.

And then number two, I got in a space where I always knew I was called to it. And it's hard, hard. It's hard. But I know in the end it'll be worth it. When I'm blessing people with my hands, beyond just being a doctor on paper, like, I want to bless people in the end. And I think that matters more to me than anything. I remember my mom having back pain growing up and because we didn't have insurance and things like that, people wouldn't necessarily help her out. And so just having to watch pain because of an insurance, this or we didn't have the money to pay for this.

I told myself I'm going to be so good and this what I said as a kid. So it's going to sound rudimentary, but just ride with me. I said I'm going to be so good at the body that if there is anyone who came to for help, I can still help him. And what I learned was the body became the strength coach. It became getting your two matches, it became becoming a doctor because I don't want to have. Nobody had to go through that but watch my mom be in pain. And as a kid, you can't do anything about it. It sucks.

So I just told myself that I'm going to become so good at what I do. There's ever. My mother's name is Renee McKay. If there's another Renee McKay I view in or meet in the future, I will help them. But I can't do it if I don't know enough. So I started studying anatomy and stuff as a kid. Early, I was a nerd, an athlete and track and band, everything else. But I've been hungry for it and I think it's time for time and turn to meet each other.

I love that. And I think so much of what we do professionally can be successful when you have a right mindset and a right heart behind why you do what you do. And it's always exciting for me to hear from different practitioners why, how they arrived at their journey, how they arrived at their decision rather to start on the journey towards being a healthcare provider and helping people in such a way. So thank you so much today for this presentation. It's been incredibly insightful. Thank you again. One Final question I did have for you. Someone wrote this in here just a second ago.

How do you define durability? That was the title of your presentation today, Durability over dominance. What do you define durability as? And what is one key takeaway that you want to kind of leave in the minds of our attendees today when it comes to that focus on durability over dominance?

Absolutely. That's a really good question. I like these questions. So I think. And again, I'm just excited to be on here, so I'm smiling a lot, being my authentic self. So I think if I had to define durability right now based on strength and conditioning, if I had to put it into a book, that I'll give you two. If I had to put it into a book definition, it would probably be repetitive movement, fluidity without flaw. If that's the goal and we're chasing that, even if we don't hit it, we're close to it, Right? So it's kind of like the theme of you shoot for the stars, and if you land on a suit for the moon, if you don't make it, you still land on the stars.

Right? So repetitive movement, fluidity with consistency. So if we can do a squat in the eighth grade and it looks mechanically and biomechanically sound, week one, let's do a week two. If we in week five, and their biomechanics are changing or they're compensating, let's find out. Why are they in pain? If it's high school, unfortunately, sometimes. Are they being abused? That's a dark part we don't want to talk about. When you're working with young students, kids go through things sometimes. Are they trying to fight through the af through the pain, or is something else going on? So again, we just look at. When I was a defensive coordinator, I would say this all the time, too.

When we get a turnover, yes, let's celebrate. But the number one question I'm gonna ask, and the whole defense will say it, can we do it again? Perfect. That's not me taking away from us celebrating this great moment we have, but at the same time, we have to ask ourselves, can we do it again? Because one stop is not gonna win us a championship, let alone this game. So when it comes to movement fluidity, can we do it again? If Scarlett is working out at USC and I'm there, or she's out there working out with my brother Carrie, now, if she's doing a single arm ankle press and it's solid in week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How do we continue to get that to be solid in week six? So that's the book definition for durability, the off the clock definition of durability that I would use back what I'm saying and what I'm doing in the weight room. Durability is dominance and we dominate through durability. Man, if we can come in and make our times for sprints. If we can come in and make our time, make our weight progressions for the week, not.

That's, that's why I said progressions, not make our numbers, because a lot of coaches get caught up on the numbers. Well, every high school or every college running back super squad, at least 315, maybe this one came, but he might be the fastest person in the nation. So again, can you match your progression numbers? But again, you will, you will never be dominant if you're not durable. If we look at the Celtics, as many years as they've had, you look at the Lakers, you look at Alabama with these teams back to back champion. You look at baseball players, they play 162 regular season games. Your whole programming model for MLB and I know MLB strength coach can call them right now on the phone. So I'm not just making this up. It's durability.

They are not trying to max bench press or trying to max deadlift anybody that's on that pitching mound. We have to play 162 regular season games. That does not count preseason, it don't count postseason, and it doesn't count the 21 day literally off season that they get. I'm building to be able to go out and play again and again and again without being hurt. Your performance is for the organization. Your durability is my care. That's how I look at it. That's what I look at.

My off the book or off the clock definition would be durability is my care. And I care about you being able to function well. So start with functional movement screening or some type of assessment and just go from there. There's no cookie cut away. I have plenty of ways I can help you all out with it if you want. But you may see that and say, well, that works great. But we have a new rugby team. I've never coached rugby, so I'll take this part and try it with this and do it.

But again, durability is your care because sometimes the high school athletes won't because they're just thinking about, I want to get another offer or okay, I got two D, two Schools two D two schools. But I hope Texas calls me next week or sends me an email or text or whatever it is. So you have to care. And sometimes the sport coaches, they care about winning that ring, right? Durability is your care, but when it comes to the paper piece of it, can we do it again? Repetitive fluid motion over time.

Wonderful. Thank you so much. I think that's a really great way to end today's training and something certainly to leave us to think more about before our part two training.

That brings us to the end of our Durability Over Dominance series with Matthew McKay. I hope this final segment left you thinking more deeply about the role we play not just in our athletes physical progress, but in protecting their future. Remember, your job isn't just to coach or to treat, it's to care. That means having the hard conversations, setting clear boundaries and always keeping the long game in mind. If you missed part one or part two of this series, be sure to go back and visit episodes 107 and 108. They're packed with real world tools and strategies you can implement right away. And before we sign off, be sure to mark your calendars for our next free masterclass coming up on August 28th titled Functional Lab Testing A Step by Step Roadmap for the Sports Chiropractor with Dr. Brent Myers.

If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the world of functional labs, this high impact training will walk you through exactly how to get started. From setting up lab accounts to interpreting results and building high performance driven protocols, you'll walk away with clear, actionable plan you can use right away in your practice. Check out the link in our show notes to register for free. Even if you can't join us live, you'll still get an email with a recorded replay after the live event. Thanks again for joining us. We'll see you next time.

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