147: Adarian Barr on Foot Pressure and Arch-Centered Performance | Sponsored by Simplifaster - a podcast by Joel Smith, Just-Fly-Sports.com

Today’s episode features coach, biomechanist and inventor Adarian Barr.



Adarian has had a number of appearances on this podcast, speaking on common sprint and jump training myths, athletic asymmetry, and the foot.  As long as I’ve known Adarian, it’s as if I am talking to someone coaching many years in the future where we have a more thorough and integrated understanding of movement.  I’ve never came across a coach or training equipment manufacturer that has gotten me the results I’ve found with Adarian’s methods, while at the same time alleviating my injury symptoms.



Adarian is a coach of “fast”, which is fundamentally different than the process of strength development, since it requires the ability to “connect the dots” on many pieces of human machinery, many of which we know relatively little about (i.e. the foot, pressure, joint articulation, breathing, etc.).



In this episode, we continue our discussion on the foot, this time specifically digging into the training of the arches, and particularly, the transverse arch of the foot.   In the world of foot training, we tend to see a lot of talk on various ways to strengthen muscles, or even see interesting devices that separate or even spread the toes, but we’ll see limited or even backwards gains by following many of these routes.To reach an ultimate level of performance, an intimate understanding of our direct link to the ground, the foot and its arch system, is needed.  In this episode, Adarian covers that, as well as concepts of angular force application and pressure regarding the foot and squatting, and also “same-side” coaching and motor learning strategy.



Adarian Barr will be teaching out of Santa Clara, CA on June 22 and 23, you can sign up for that at just-fly-sports.com/rewire



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