Hi, guys. It's time for another episode of the FAKTR podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Riddle. Welcome, and thank you for listening. I'm recording today from Valencia, Spain. I'm actually in the airport as we speak, meeting up with our guest instructor for today's episode, doctor Tom Teter. He and I are on our way to the international instructor meeting for a dynamic tape, a company we've worked with for many years. So stay tuned for some exciting announcements in the coming weeks regarding live core states we'll be launching throughout Europe.

2025 will be a big year of global expansion for us with FAKTR and many of our other in-person courses, so I'm super excited to tell you about that coming up shortly. But aside from that, I think it's very fitting that in today's podcast episode, we're going to be wrapping up part 2 of our series with doctor Teeter entitled unlocking elite performance, strategies to transform your sports practice. If you've been a listener for any length of time or have attended any of our live FAKTR monthly webinars, then you know that anytime doctor Teter comes on the show, he delivers a ton of great information and shares a different perspective and approach to treating athletes and active patient populations. In part 1, he went over the 6 stages of rehabilitation from acute management to fundamental capacity, and we talked about the importance of ensuring a patient has what doctor Teter refers to as a full performance readiness instead of just stopping care once pain has been resolved. Today, we'll discuss the importance of athlete involvement in their recovery, how to build a multifaceted skill set, and the necessity of having a robust support system. Be sure to bookmark this episode and come back to it more than once. This is one you'll definitely want to take notes on. Let's cue the intro music and dive in.

Once we get them out of motor control, we we have to start reloading tissue. So we're gonna go into functional integration. This is where we go into fundamental patterns of movement. We're going to work on whatever specific type of strength they need, whether that's maximal strength, dynamic strength, submaximal strength, or repetitious strength. And we're gonna do that by using the appropriate progressions and regressions. You can see PRE number 24. We're gonna do the right progressions and regressions of exercise in resistance training of the upper extremity, trunk and spine, and lower extremity. And then ultimately, we're gonna couple that with starting the process of obtaining aerobic endurance.

So if we look at functional integration, this is traditionally what we would just call general physical preparation. Right? We're getting them out of rehab, but ultimately rehab is the whole process from going from acute management to fundamental capacity. But historically, we're getting them out of rehab and we're starting to get them into loading tissue. Now once we've started the process of loading patterns and working on general physical preparation, now we're gonna start working on a rate of force development. How fast can you produce force and how much power do you have? So this is progressive kinetics, And we're historically going to do things like explosive power, which is a one time rate of force development. We could do things like recycling power number 30, which is multiple bouts of power output that's consistent over time. And then we're gonna do that through the means of working on either sprinting, jumping, throwing, and or Olympic lifting. Right? Now I, in my practice and when I teach this in our course, we don't necessarily teach Olympic lifting.

If your sport dictates that you have to do Olympic lifting as part of your recovery or or for training for performance, then obviously that's something you do in progressive kinetics and rate of force development. But we typically will stick with sprinting, jumping, and throwing because I think it has the most carryover to the individual sport, and it has the shortest learning curve. It takes people about 10000 hours to get really awesome at Olympic lifting, and I could teach you to sprint in a couple weeks and have you back to doing that relatively fast. So I think that has a bigger carryover to their sport. But nonetheless, in progressive kinetics, we're working on rate of force development and power. And then as we progress to that last stage of care here on fundamental capacity, we're gonna start working on things like reaction time. We're gonna work on sport specific skill and motor skill acquisition. So reteaching them how to do their sport.