148: Ben Patrick, “Knees Over Toes Guy”, on Building Bulletproof Knees, Feet and Transforming Your Performance | Sponsored by SimpliFaster - a podcast by Joel Smith, Just-Fly-Sports.com

Today’s episode features Ben Patrick, coach and founder of the “Athletic Truth Group” a gym and online training service based out of Clearwater Beach Florida.



Ben overcame debilitating knee and shin pain, as well as subsequent surgeries through a personal journey taking knee and foot strength training means to their fullest potential. Ben transformed his basketball career, going from being continually injured and under-achieving to having a successful junior college stint through improving his own knee health and performance. This culminated for Ben with a scholarship offer to Boston University for basketball, but due to NCAA eligibility rules, Ben turned it down and began training athletes.



I’ve been aware of Ben’s training group for some time, but a string of friends and colleagues in the field who have been recommending Ben’s methods as completely transformative in their knee pain have pointed my eyes more closely to his work. If you look through Ben’s social media, you can see how passionate he is about health and human performance.



For today’s episode, Ben keys us in to his progression in knee training and how it transformed his basketball career. He also shares some important ideas on long term vertical jump training and health, and how a hip centered focus, although useful for short term gains, can actually set an athlete backwards in the long run by ignoring critical links in jumping.



Ben also talks about his four pillars of performance, as well as foot training concepts. It’s always fun to connect dots in this field, and much of Ben’s ideas has resonance with things I’ve learned from Jay Schoreder’s system, such as strength through length, having terminal end-range strength, in movements, fixing compensation patterns, and more.



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