We go back into the archives for a story about Coach Ted helping a doctor recover from an injury with exercise therapy, launching a mission that has changed many of our lives.
How Coach Ted Got into Exercise Therapy
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How Coach Ted Got into Exercise Therapy
Season 4/Episode 25
April 1, 2022
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This is the Ted O'Neill Program, where we explore the science and philosophies for performance optimization and the elevation of the human experience, from the mind of Ted O'Neill, with Jon Leon Guerrero.
0:25 Ted
One of the things that I was really blessed with is, many years ago, actually now more than two decades ago, I started working in exercise therapy, and it was something that kind of fell into my lap through a doctor that I was training. And he liked the ideas so much that I was working with him on some of his old injuries, that he started sending his patients to me. And then in doing that, they started getting better. So, then we created a whole formal program out of it, and that was my introduction into doing something other than just traditional personal training or athletic training.
So, I had this great fortune of having a wide level of experience from people who could barely move, or just coming out of a stroke or, you know, someone who had a herniated disk—it was nonspecific, it wasn't just one type of injury that we were working with. It was really the whole gamut. So, when you're working in that capacity, oftentimes, if you're paying attention, you can see where the correlations are, to the things you might be doing in more standard training or athletic training. And then you can also see where we're where the differences are. And then from that, you can start to create new concepts and new ideas drawn from the experience on both different sides.
And that's, that's something that I've been fortunate enough—as I did the exercise therapy for a number of years, and then restarted that, and kind of as a full-time thing about 10 years ago, and I've always had at some level at Diablo. And so that's one of the places where, specifically as applies to me, where I've been able to have something that's really outside the experience of just, you know, just doing personal training, or just doing fat loss, or specializing in any one area, including powerlifting.
0:25 Ted
One of the things that I was really blessed with is, many years ago, actually now more than two decades ago, I started working in exercise therapy, and it was something that kind of fell into my lap through a doctor that I was training. And he liked the ideas so much that I was working with him on some of his old injuries, that he started sending his patients to me. And then in doing that, they started getting better. So, then we created a whole formal program out of it, and that was my introduction into doing something other than just traditional personal training or athletic training.
So, I had this great fortune of having a wide level of experience from people who could barely move, or just coming out of a stroke or, you know, someone who had a herniated disk—it was nonspecific, it wasn't just one type of injury that we were working with. It was really the whole gamut. So, when you're working in that capacity, oftentimes, if you're paying attention, you can see where the correlations are, to the things you might be doing in more standard training or athletic training. And then you can also see where we're where the differences are. And then from that, you can start to create new concepts and new ideas drawn from the experience on both different sides.
And that's, that's something that I've been fortunate enough—as I did the exercise therapy for a number of years, and then restarted that, and kind of as a full-time thing about 10 years ago, and I've always had at some level at Diablo. And so that's one of the places where, specifically as applies to me, where I've been able to have something that's really outside the experience of just, you know, just doing personal training, or just doing fat loss, or specializing in any one area, including powerlifting.
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