Podcast #141: Hamstrings and Hamstring Tendons with Johan Lahti

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000703488847 “When we talk about the tendons, we can talk about the free tendon that’s outside the muscle and then the intramuscular tendon that’s called also the aponeurosis. And those are highly different between the four hamstring muscles and the three biarticular, which basically tells us that just from a structural standpoint, they’re specialized for…

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Podcast #140: Rotator Cuff Tendons with Jared Powell

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000702714821 “Most of the data that we have in the literature seems to suggest that 70 to 80 % of all shoulder pain presentations can be sort of housed under this umbrella term that we call rotator cuff related shoulder pain, which includes rotator cuff tendinopathy, partial thickness tears, full thickness tears, even subacromial bursitis…

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Podcast #139: Tendons with Chris Johnson

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000702465188 “I deal with a lot of Endurance athletes who never want to basically back off training and who end up dealing with a lot of lower limb tendinopathy and bone stress injuries so that’s what keeps me busy.” “I think in the rehab space, people love all of their ancillary toys and tricks… I…

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Podcast #138: Tendons with Taylor Starch

“You don’t really care about it until it starts hurting on yourself. And especially once starts hurting to the point where you do your normal bag of tricks and it doesn’t work, right? And that’s when you realize that we know a lot of stuff, especially in 2025, right? But we don’t understand most of…

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Podcast #137: Tendons with Alex Nelson

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000700933250 Isometrics: “It’s not magic and there’s going to be some people that I think respond really well. And I think other population that’s just not going to respond too well and can’t even make them worse.” “When programming for people, I don’t necessarily think about the tendon all that much. I think about the…

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Podcast #136: Gluteal and Rotator Cuff Tendons with Byron Miller

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000700292416 “During clinical [in PT school], I developed a raging case of elbow tendinopathy. It was because I was doing a lot of manual therapy, writing a lot of notes and lifting and doing jujitsu. And it was just way too much… I’m in PT school, but I didn’t know how to manage it.” Glute…

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Podcast #135: Tendons with Steven Sahyoun

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000699584854 Achilles that went on to rupture: “The biggest thing that stood out to me was I always struggled with plantar flexion on that side. Especially like getting end range plantar flexion and I was seeing a physio at the time and I had been wrestling for about six months on and off and I…

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Podcast #134: Metabolic Tendons with Derek Griffin

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000699327183 “We tend to see people with tendinopathy that are more sedentary. So they’re not typically the athletic populations and they’ll still develop tendinopathy. So common areas would be the gluteal tendons, the rotator cuff, the lateral elbow.” “I think we can get very sidetracked on pain mechanisms. And this isn’t just for tendinopathy. I…

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Podcast #133: Elbow Tendons with Mike Carroll

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000699196938 “I’ve had quad tendonitis and golfers and tennis elbow on both elbows. So I first got interested in tendons from damaging my own through training like a knucklehead in my early 20s with little regard for what I was doing to my body and not backing off.” “I can’t think of a single case…

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Podcast #132: Tendons with Falk Mersmann

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000699042161 “So basically all of tendon adaptation is strain mediated. That is the most important mechanical factor.” “Metabolic factors, they may play a role, of course, at a given amount of mechanical loading. But in comparison to mechanical loading, not as important. So it’s a minor factor.” “When the stimulus for the tendon is more…

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