50 episodes
More Train, Less Pain; Engineering the Adaptable Athlete Dr. Michelle Boland & Dr. Tim Richardt
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- Health & Fitness
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4.8 • 17 Ratings
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The More Train, Less Pain podcast is hosted by Dr. Michelle Boland and Dr. Tim Richardt and is specifically designed around engineering the adaptable athlete. The podcast will bring you the most knowledgeable guests in the fields of strength and conditioning and physical therapy, as well as episodes consisting of topic “deep-dives”. Our aim is to elevate YOUR understanding as a movement professional, to give you the knowledge, and the tools to deliver an even better service to your people, whoever they may be.
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S3.5E22: Meditation for People That Are Bad at Meditation; Improving Movement through Mindfulness with Sam Leffers
Michelle and Tim are hard at work recording episodes for Season 4, which they’re incredibly excited to bring you. However, in the interim, they hope you enjoy what’ll likely be their final “in-between-a-sode”.
Throughout Season 3 proper, Tim’s spoken at length about his own journey through persistent pain, and back on Season 3 Episode 4 (Sam Leffer’s first guest appearance) the concept of being in pain versus suffering was introduced. Recording that back in early 2023, Tim didn’t think he fully grasped the significance of that distinction. Sitting as he records this in April of 2024, he couldn’t think of a more important distinction in his own life.
Sharpening the mental tools that allow us to transcend the realm of suffering and associated mental landscapes- impatience, despair, and hostility- is vital to anyone looking to begin to thrive again within the context of their persistent pain. The tool that’s helped Tim the most in this regard is, hands down, meditation. So, Michelle and Tim brought Sam back so he and Tim could wax poetic about specific tactics and strategies, general frameworks, and consistent hang-ups folks have when starting a meditation practice.
If you’d like to hear more about the specific application of these things to persistent pain, we’d very much recommend going back and listening to S3E4. Stay moving, stay mindful, and enjoy the episode.
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Reframe Performance EBOOK: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ebook-keep-training-in-pain
Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt -
S3.5E21: Using Cold Plunge/Sauna and Navigating Health Fads
Over the past few years we’ve seen the rise of various internet health personalities- Attia, Huberman, and Rhonda Patrick all come to mind. In a lot of ways, we’re fans. Especially with the ever-declining standard of care for conventional insurance-based medicine in this country, it’s heartening to see so many folks attempting to take matters into their own hands.
Never before has the national discourse actually centered around topics like protein consumption, light exposure, or strength training for longevity. However, these thought leaders have had to learn to play in the medium of the day- namely podcasts, IG content, and YouTube clips that reward sensationalism, quick fixes, and “hacks” over tried and true practices.
Save the carnivore diet, nothing has gotten more play amongst the fitness intelligentsia of late than deliberate extreme temperature exposure, a la cold plunges and saunas.
What’s the deal with these modalities? Are they a flash-in-the-pan fad or facets of an intelligently designed physical practice that will endure the test of time?
For answers to these questions, and more, listen to Tim’s sit down with Sam Leffers, friend of the pod and mental health practitioner extraordinaire, as they dive deep on the research and practical utilization of this type of work.
Listen, download, subscribe, and tell your friends…
Reframe Performance EBOOK: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ebook-keep-training-in-pain
Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt -
S3.5E20: Enter into Michelle’s Mind- SOLO 2023 Recap and 2024 Planning INSIGHTS; business and running goals, struggles, and preparation.
While you are waiting for MTLP Season 4, Michelle sits down with her microphone and gives some insights into how she reflects on 2023 and plans for 2024. In this episode, Michelle lays out her struggles and successes in 2023, what will be new in 2024, the story behind Reframe Performance, MTLP Season 4 planning, running 100km in the Swiss Alps, and her annual planning strategies. I think you will find something useful, learn some things to avoid, and realize that we probably share the same struggles.
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Reframe Performance EBOOK: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ebook-keep-training-in-pain
Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt -
S3E19: Season 3 Finale- Top 3 Takeaways
Tim and Michelle countdown their Top 3 Takeaways from Season 3. In this episode we discuss strategies to build rapport, developing intuition within the body, compassionate presence, low tension as a default resting state, negative transfer of training, gen pop vs. performance training, Kintsugi, momentum vs. progression, practical vs. optimal, and reframing performance.
Thank you for listening to Season 3! We will be back for Season 4 in a few weeks!
Tim and Michelle hope you have enjoyed Season 3, as much as they have enjoyed recording it, and while you're thinking of it, go ahead and leave a 5-star review on the pod player of your choice. Doing so will let them continue to devote time to this show for many more seasons to come.
Listen, download, subscribe, and tell your friends…
Reframe Performance EBOOK: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ebook-keep-training-in-pain
Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt -
S3E18: Dr. Lisa Lewis- Psych Coach for Fitness Pros: The capacity to tolerate client’s discomfort
Michelle sits down with Dr. Lisa Lewis, EdD, CADA-II, Licensed Psychologist who is known as the ‘psych coach for fitness pros’. Dr. Lewis works with a wide variety of clientele but her passion for wellness and fitness has fueled working with trainers and therapists, just like yourself. In this episode we discuss her personal experience with training and pain, what coaching skills trainers are lacking to help motivate their clients and facilitate change, client relationships, the capacity to tolerate client’s discomfort, compassionate presence, and working with “tough clients”.
Listen, download, subscribe, and tell your friends…
Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt -
S3E17: Q&A - Tim and Michelle Answer All Of Your Painful Questions
Tim and Michelle answer all of your questions about pain and training in this week’s episode. We tackled your questions with all of our might to provide you answers about Tim’s hip pain status, Tim’s pain management strategies, what books we recommend related to Season 3’s theme, how to evolve your model, our thoughts about common three letter acronym systems, and our own struggling working with persistent pain clients.
Michelle and Tim hope you enjoy the show as much as they enjoyed recording it, and, while you're thinking of it, go ahead and leave a 5-star review on the pod player of your choice. Doing so will let Michelle and Tim continue to devote time to this show for many more seasons to come.
Listen, download, subscribe, and tell your friends…
Contact Michelle: https://www.michelleboland-training.com/ or @dr.michelleboland
Contact Tim: https://www.timrichardt.com/ or @tim_richardt_dpt
Customer Reviews
MTLP 5 star show!
As a massage therapist by trade who is certified to teach movement and just has a strong passion training , this is hands down one favorite podcasts to queue up. Tim and Michelle do a great job not only hosting the show with interesting , important and relatable topics but also are highly respected in their fields and have some of the best guest speakers on the show. This podcast helps give access to multiple perspectives, experiences and reframes . Anyone who works with people in some sort of physical capacity would benefit greatly from this podcast. That goes for those both in pain , those who work with pain clientele / patients or athletes/ regular joes not necessarily under the pain category too. Highly suggest tuning in!
Fantastic Podcast
Tim and Michelle do a great job discussing the nuance of working with people with persistent pain. As a PT myself, I have experienced the challenges in working with this population, and this is the best podcast I’ve heard on the topic. The conversations are thoughtful and do a great job at tackling a complicated issue with guests from many different backgrounds in health and fitness. It has also reframed my own beliefs and strategies when it comes to treating patients, and dealing with my own aches and pains. I’d recommend this podcast for any clinician, trainer, or anyone who is dealing with persistent pain themselves.
From Professional to Athlete
I’ve had the opportunity to work with Dr. Tim now for a year focused on upper body lifting and running. As a working professional, I never saw myself as athletic- in our time together though he has imparted knowledge on me about how to not just make progress but to make it safely and progressively in a way that builds strength and not pain.
This podcast encapsulates the wisdom he shares with me on each of our coaching calls. Recommended highly I’d you’re looking to move the needle and surprise yourself.