Tim’s joined by Danny “DAC” Cardona, powerlifting and mindset coach extraordinaire for a far-ranging discussion concerning what other movement disciplines can learn from powerlifting, powerlifting programming concepts, the role of accessory lifts in a strength program, teaching/learning movement and correcting “form”, the dark side of athletic identity and much, much more. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe Performance: https://www.reframeperformance.com/ Reframe Performance Free ...
Jul 14, 2025•1 hr 19 min
On today’s episode Michelle and Tim sit down to discuss their top three themes and lessons from Season 5. In this episode they discuss certainty, the artistic analysis of running mechanics, running not having much to do with conditioning, the fallacy that more range of motion is better, “explore then exploit”, the skill of cueing, the value of the principle “structure dictates function”, and much more. Tim and Michelle will return in September 2025 for Season 6! Listen, subscribe, and tell your ...
Jun 30, 2025•51 min
On today’s episode Michelle and Tim sit down to discuss specific exercises and cues that they use for runners. In this episode, expect to learn how the ‘hardware’ determines what is possible for the ‘software’ of running, why runners need to bounce instead of push, cues to improve running stride, why more ab training may be detrimental to running, and much more. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe Performance: https://www.reframeperformance.com/ Reframe Performance Free Guide- 6 Bi...
Jun 02, 2025•53 min
Michelle sits down with…herself and takes you through a summer program for a D1 Football athlete. In this episode, she discusses how to find a balance between preparing an athlete for a D1 Football S&C program, testing expectations, and pre-season while maintaining your own training principles. Michelle reviews injury history, program modifications, athlete goals, and outlines her exact phase one training program for an athlete entering into a D1 Football program. Listen, subscribe, and tell...
May 26, 2025•52 min
Michelle sits down with one of our most popular guests of the podcast, Dr. Mike Camporini, DPT to talk about weight room training strategies for golfers. In this episode, Mike breaks down the three major phases of the golf swing from the feet to the hips and how trainers can use the information to cue and modify exercises. Michelle and Mike also discuss the spectrum of sport vs. individual specific exercise selection, medicine ball throws, working from the ground up, gut movement, practical trai...
May 05, 2025•57 min
On today’s episode I help Tim out with a book review - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. In this episode expect to learn how nasal breathing can impact sleep, low and high intensity exercise, what practical strategies you can implement with yourself and your clientele to get an advantage, how mouth taping and nose strips can help, what gum to chew, and Tim’s overall thoughts about the book and his self-experimentation. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe Perfor...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr
In this episode, we count down Dr. Tim’s top 5 recommendations for optimizing post-operative recovery. From the efficacy (?) of icing and maintaining the right mindset to challenging outdated time-based protocols, we break down what truly helps speed healing. We also explore the tactical use of assistive devices (and what this has to do with Atomic Habits) and strategies for maintaining fitness during recovery. Whether you're recovering from surgery or supporting someone who is, these tips will ...
Apr 14, 2025•44 min
What can distance runners learn from sprinters? Speed expert Derek Hansen joins us to break it down. We dive into his 10x10 protocol for hamstring recovery, the power of “up” vs. “push” in sprinting, and the balance between individualized mechanics and a universal technical model. Plus, why all runners—yes, even distance runners—need to sprint. Don’t miss this one! Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe Performance: https://www.reframeperformance.com/ Reframe Performance Free Guide- 6...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 11 min
On today’s episode Michelle and Tim explore narratives in the fitness industry that can both help facilitate change or create limitations. In this episode we discuss how your clients create stories around an identity, how you can help change those stories, how to supply your clients with evidence for confidence, why ‘should’ statements aren’t useful, obsessions with diagnoses, and practical strategies for helping your clients author their own stories. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Re...
Mar 31, 2025•51 min
On today’s episode Michelle RUNS through topics related to strength training for endurance athletes with Pro Coach Sarah Scozzaro. Sarah specializes in ultrarunning while both coaching athletes and competing in several 100 mile,100k and 50 mile events herself. On today’s episode, expect to learn why strength training is rising in the ultrarunning world, how to get runners started in the weight room, why all runners need to be good hing-ers, and why coaches should take some of the thinking out of...
Mar 24, 2025•56 min
On today’s episode Michelle and Tim sit down to hash out past business mistakes, lessons, and advice for other fitness pros and physical therapists. We love diving down biomechanical rabbit holes and talking about exercise selection for hours, but if you aren’t creating a successful business your days may be numbered. In today's episode, expect to learn why you should schedule follow-ups, why you should assess marketing strategies, why a recurring offer is a good idea, why you should stop being ...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 6 min
On today’s episode Michelle sits down with Adam Loiacono, owner of Loiacono Performance Therapy in Scottsdale, AZ. Adam has over 15 years of experience providing rehabilitation and performance training to professional & youth athletes. His career includes reaching the NBA Finals with the Phoenix Suns and the MLS Cup with the New England Revolution. On today’s episode, expect to learn why you should create a story about yourself, tips for growing a business, what life in the NBA is like, why ...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr
Back almost 3 years after his first appearance on More Train, Less Pain, Lance Goyke rejoins Tim to talk simplifying velocity based-training, designing workouts for busy people, leaving the (full time) fitness industry, and *most importantly* best pop punk albums of the 2000s. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe Performance: https://www.reframeperformance.com/ Reframe Performance Free Guide- 6 Biggest Weight Training Mistakes Runners Make: https://www.reframeperformance.com/weight-...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 3 min
On today’s episode Michelle gets PEAK FAST with Ryan Patrick, owner of Peak Fitness & Sports Training in Erlanger, Kentucky. On today’s episode, expect to learn how Ryan realized that max strength wasn’t translating into speed, why you shouldn’t rush progress with youth athletes, how to avoid drill surfing by having a decision making framework, how to use bodyweight movements for assessment, and strategies for speed development using sleds. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe P...
Feb 24, 2025•51 min
Michelle steals David Grey as a guest on the podcast from Tim’s lineup and talks about his curiosity, decision making, and how he prescribes his knowledge. On today’s episode expect to learn how David helps his clients interpret their problems, the best strategies for learning, why simplicity is driven from complexity, the best questions to ask clients, the difference between variety and variability, and why accuracy is more important than range of movement. Sit down, kick up your feet, and get ...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Michelle and Tim discuss their top three most hated coaching cues. Coaching cues are meant to anchor an exercise, provide a focal point, and represent intent. Cues aren’t meant to be applied to all, so Michelle and Tim dial in on when and why to use specific cues. In this episode expect to learn why “squeezing your glutes” is ineffective for cueing the deadlift, why you should be mindful about over-tucking your hips and over-reaching, why shin angles matter, cueing mistakes Michelle & Tim ha...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Michelle sits down with…herself and takes you through her 100 mile ultramarathon goal. In this episode, she discusses why she is pursuing this goal, her nine-month macro programming plan, her pre-race schedule, training considerations and variables, and why comparing yourself to an elite athlete is a bad training strategy. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe Performance: https://www.reframeperformance.com/ Reframe Performance Free Guide- 6 Biggest Weight Training Mistakes Runners M...
Feb 03, 2025•36 min
Michelle and Tim have talked about this a fair amount on recent podcasts but if you’re someone, like them, who tends to go pretty deep down biomechanical rabbit holes there’s a tendency to “lose sight” of what we love about fitness and rehab in the first place. When Tim starts to feel that existential dread creeping up, there’s three names in our field that are a surefire panacea for rekindling his stoke to train and get people moving and feeling better; David Grey, Joel Smith, and, today’s gues...
Jan 27, 2025•56 min
Joining the Mount Rushmore of multiple-time More Train, Less Pain guests, Joel Smith hops on the mic with Tim for a wide-ranging conversation about training, learning, and life. Topics include; “How would you meaningfully improve endurance running performance without any additional running or endurance training? What does elasticity have to do with distance running performance?” “How do you think about continuing to foster a genuine love of training while concurrently learning these in-depth bio...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr
Chris Wicus is a health and performance professional with 18 years of experience, a former professional ultimate frisbee player, and a 2nd degree black belt in karate. He’s coached a wide variety of athletes across 17 sports and has been mentored by many top experts in the field, including Bill Hartman, with whom he runs the Unified Health and Performance Network, a place for practitioners to learn Bill’s UHPC model and its applications. In this episode, Tim and Chris dive into how Chris convinc...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Tim takes the interview seat and answers questions from Michelle about all things foot training; normal foot mechanics, when things go wrong, solutions, and practical strategies for different foot presentations. In this episode expect to learn normal mechanics of the foot during each phase of gait, how the foot changes shape during gait, interventions for rigid and flatter feet, weight room considerations and cues, strategies to improve the squat from the ground up, footwear recommendations, and...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Michelle sits down with Jonah Rosner, to put science over hype. Jonah and Michelle have known each other for many years and recently, both have swallowed the running pill. In this episode they discuss lessons from their practical experiences, the biggest factors in successful marathon training, coaches being ahead of the science, weight room training for runners, mistakes runners make in the weight room, ground contact training, tendon stiffness, the importance of variation in intensity, and muc...
Dec 30, 2024•40 min
Tim and Michelle calf raise their way through the TOP 3 MISTAKES RUNNERS make with foot training. In this episode you can expect to learn why calf raises are overrated, why toe gripping should be avoided, why balance training and unstable surfaces should be thrown out with the bathwater, how to better appreciate the nuances of hopping and plyometrics, the importance of footwear, how lower body exercises always need to be coached at the foot, and the difference between injury prevention and perfo...
Dec 23, 2024•47 min
Michelle sits down with podcast king himself, Mike Robertson to talk about the difference between training high performance athletes and gen pop clients. In this episode, they discuss coaching as educating, creating your own timelines for progression, management strategies for athletes, defining sport specificity, applying the person to the weight room, and much more. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe Performance: https://www.reframeperformance.com/ Reframe Performance Free Guide...
Dec 16, 2024•54 min
Michelle sits down with Dr. Sarah Coulombe, DPT, CSCS, CPT to talk about central nervous system and organ mobility influences on movement. In this episode, they discuss Sarah’s approach to assessment, identifying tension, creating a state of awareness in clients, structural changes during pregnancy, hormonal and connective tissue influences on movement, practical strategies for training women during pregnancy, and much more. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe Performance: https://...
Dec 09, 2024•58 min
Michelle sits down with Dr. Mike Camporini, DPT to talk about the difference between specificity for training and the transfer of training. In this episode, expect to learn about actual training adaptations vs. abstract concepts, why strength isn’t an adaptation, reverse engineering adaptations with exercise selection, outcome-based vs. drill-based processes, and much more. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe Performance: https://www.reframeperformance.com/ Reframe Performance Free...
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Michelle and Tim CRUNCH our way into Season 5 with a big hitting topic - core training for runners. In this episode, we discuss the following topics - why you should include the diaphragm and pelvic floor in your definition of the CORE, athletes needing gradients of tension, the definition of stability, isolated exercises vs. multi-joint, too much concentric core training leading to poor running technique, the core as a conduit for energy transfer, practical training strategies for runners, and ...
Nov 25, 2024•58 min
Sit down with Michelle and Tim as they discuss their biggest takeaways from Season 4, exploring specific preparation strategies for specific activities. In this episode, they discuss gym work for injury prevention, how the magic of programming is in the feedback, the value of unstructured activity, sport vs. individual analysis, and much more. Listen, subscribe, and tell your friends… Reframe Performance: https://www.reframeperformance.com/ Reframe Performance Free Guide- 6 Biggest Weight Traini...
Nov 18, 2024•53 min
More Train, Less Pain brings its arc on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to a close- Tim (with newly functional vocal chords) hops on the mic solo to discuss key takeaways from both BJJ guests and how a strength coach or physical therapist ought to think about *actually* managing this population. What exercises are asymmetrically useful? What ranges of motion must we fight to maintain? How strong is strong enough? Is your client a gumby or a gorilla?!? All of these answered, and more, on this episode of More...
Nov 11, 2024•59 min
Tim welcomes his second guest of More Train, Less Pain’s arc on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu; Jon Pope of Building the Elite. Jon is a former competitive BJJ player with a wealth of knowledge in program design. They get into the 3 basic archetypes of BJJ players and how to train each in the gym, the role of gym work in a BJJ player’s physical preparation strategy, the need to “own the middle” of the intensity continuum, how developing energy systems in this population looks an awful lot like training a m...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 23 min
