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🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 104 minutes
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The most dynamic Iron Culture duo is back in action. In this episode, Omar and Dr. Trexler talk all about pain, injury, and factors that impact the relationship between them. Back in the day, most lifters were all-in on the “Cartesian” or “biomedical” model of pain, which posits that pain is a simple, reliable indicator of damaged tissue causing nociceptors to send a “pain signal” to the brain. Nowadays, the “biopsychosocial” and “fear-avoidance” models are all the rage in the evidence-based lifter circles. These models are a major upgrade, but there are still some pervasive misunderstandings and misinterpretations of these models in the lifting world. In this episode, Omar and Dr. Trexler try to provide some clarity on the matter using research, anecdote, and a decade-old textbook on Dr. Trexler’s bookshelf.
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0:00.0 | Trex. |
0:01.9 | Omar. |
0:03.0 | We are back with a dual episode of Iron Culture, and this episode has been in the making for |
0:09.7 | almost four years. |
0:11.8 | Yeah, we've been talking about it every week, you know, kind of continuing to put the |
0:17.3 | storyboard together and four years in, I think we're ready. |
0:21.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
0:21.8 | It's like, you know, Francis Ford Coppola recently released what he regards as Magnum Opus, |
0:26.2 | Megopolis, and it took just years and years he had to sell some of his wine company |
0:30.6 | in order to, you know, really fund the passion project he had. |
0:34.2 | And this is kind of similar because people might not be aware of this. |
0:37.4 | We've |
0:37.6 | mentioned it several times, both before Trex was an official host of Iron Culture when you'd be a guest, |
0:44.4 | but Trex moderated a pain science roundtable on my YouTube channel back when I was posting content |
0:52.0 | because it was a very popular topic, the whole idea, |
0:55.6 | pain narratives, catastrophizing pain. What does pain mean? In fact, it almost took us 40 minutes |
1:00.4 | to define that in that conversation. We had several different people on there. There's Dr. Mike |
1:04.4 | Isretel, Dr. Jordan Faganbaum, Dr. Eric Trexler. Also another, I am forgetting that. I think Dr. Derek, I want to say, there was, |
1:12.4 | there was another individual. I apologize. I sincerely apologize. But what ended up happening, |
1:19.1 | so I brought Trex on board because I wanted someone else to moderate in case, you know, they went |
1:23.2 | into the weeds when it comes to science, and then Treks having that requisite knowledge |
1:27.1 | can kind of rein it in if necessary. But Trex having that requisite knowledge can kind of rein |
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