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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.