Risk Reduction is the key to preventing ACL injuries. Chris "Tex" McQuilkin joins us to share how Power Athlete HQ is building better movers.

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Movement is going to be our common language

HELPING PEOPLE UNLOCK THEIR ATHLETIC POTENTIAL.

Empower your performance

Non-Contact Injury Risk Reduction

Athleticism will be the focus

Create a common language between coaches, strength coaches, parents, and athletes

Primal Movements

* Vertical push* Vertical Pull* Horizontal Push / Pull* X-Squat* Y- Lunge* Z- Stepup

In sports, none of the movements are isolated, but in the weight room, we train them as isolated planes.

The frontal plane is the back injury prevention lane

Create a systematic approach

Demands of Sport

* Reverse engineer the sport

Athlete Assessment

* Identify potential and limitations* DO NOT DO 1 REP MAX with HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES* Limiting factors - what happens to their head, their core during the lift

Develop a Program

* Based on your individual needs* DON’T take the college program for top recruits at D1 school

Injury Prevention - 27 minutes

We need valuable scalable tools that use common language so the coaches can correct it easily without the Medical Professional there

Train them to see movement

Stu McGill’s Big 3

Assessment - each set and rep in the weight room should be used to assess.

Integrate correctives into a program

ACL Injury Prevention Model

ACL Tear Mechanism

* Quad dominance* Ligament dominance* Asymmetry* Leg dominance - plant leg or kick leg* Jump tuck test* Looking for one hitting the ground first* Trunk Dominance* Trunk leaves the center of gravity and compromises the muscle is the largest problem that is modifiable* Can not jump and land repeatedly in the same spot

Athlete Assessment

* Trunk* Heavy Barbell - relative* Deadbug and spiderman* Add 5lbs each session to the 3x5* Primal X-Y-Z* Show where they are weak withing the lunge or step-up* Frontal Plane* Transverse Plane* Can you separate knees from shoulders?

Corrective Exercises

* Reeducation* Teaching them how to move* Warmups* Best chance to implement corrective exercises.  Work within the window of their normal warmups* Accessory Work

Neuromuscular reeducation - 41 minutes

* Quad Dominance - use: Power Athlete SeeSaw Walk* Ligament Dominance - triplanar arch...have them work barefoot and do toe yoga stuff* Asymmetry - Symmetry training* Trunk Dominance - Trunk Strategy - overload and give them the opportunity to make adjustments

Phases of Neuro reeducation

* Alignment* Force Reduction* Force Production - Coaches often jump to this because it is easy to put in a spreadsheet and “showoff”* Isometric Force - * Protective Force - * Overload - show you can move well then we add load