Born to be Barefoot | From Science to Life

We are delighted to have Richard Pady on the podcast today, who has got the most astonishing background in endurance sports. He’s got a background in skiing, cross country running, and then a very, very high level international, professional tri-athlete. He then moved on to iron mans, ultras, duathlons, and just about anything you can think of that involves a lot of running, swimming, and cycling. Join us today to hear Richard’s story of how he got into endurance athletics and the great things he has learned and experienced.
What got Richard into endurance athletics 1:53
Sports becoming higher end 7:23
Kinesiology 13:05
A snapshot of his training level 18:55
Injuries 21:35
Moving toward coaching 24:29
The mental journey after the accident 27:10
The children’s cancer charity 31:55
Where he’s at now 34:31
What has attributed to his success and long life in sport 44:24
Some advice 49:00
“I had a close friend who was a high level athlete, tell me before my first iron man. He said ‘Enjoy the naiveness of this moment.’ It was literally as I was walking to the start line, and he said ‘You will never feel this naive in an iron man ever again. From this moment forward, you will know exactly how much pain you will be going through.’ And it was so true. You see it in a lot of everyday athletes that they do better in their first one than necessarily in their second one because they put expectations on the second one.” 6:03

We are delighted to have as our guest a gentleman from America, Erson Religioso, who is a physical therapist of great renown and he has a whole other list of activities and things that he treats, which we learn more about in this episode. We learn that variety is the spice of life and that in order to have lower probability of injury or pain, you need to change up what you’re doing in order to remain at your best performance. Learning to wear the right shoes plays a huge factor in preventing injury and Erson says that if you wear the shoes that you personally find most comfortable, then you’re less likely to be injured.
His background 2:08
Making things about the approach and not the tool 6:41
Exceeding bodily capacity 8:52
Hardcore barefoot running 22:24
Corrective techniques 31:34
Proper shoes and learning to move properly 42:49
Shoe testing 53:43
Follow Erson 59:12
“If you did a lot of gardening, and then you did a huge kettlebell workout where you’re doing a bunch of swings, or a lot of dead lifts and you’re essentially doing a lot of forward bending, a lot of spinal unloading, then you went and you binged on the latest Netflix show and you watched like 3 hours of that. You essentially just never did enough upright, you never did enough of the opposite. That’s when the cup overflows.”
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