Ian Kaplan is the current Chief Officer of Operations at Hybrid Performance Method. With a background in training and research, when it comes to synthesizing research and understanding how to apply advanced topics into the context of our day-to-day lives, Ian is one of the best personalities I’ve ever spoken to in doing so.
In today’s episode, I talk to Ian about a variety of topics including what it means to be “evidence based”, how to interpret the latest research on pain, and much more. Seriously, if you love nitty gritty details of research and training, then I think you’ll love this episode.
In this episode of the BarBend Podcast, guest host Jake Boly talks to Ian Kaplan about:
- How Ian found Hybrid and his background in fitness (2:00)
- What trends Ian thinks need to go away from the last few decades in fitness (7:15)
- How much does social media play into the role of creating misleading narratives (10:00)
- What’s going to shift the rhetoric about pain perception and what’s actually going on (12:00)
- How Ian decides and weeds through the noise when challenging and developing rhetorics (14:40)
- Ian’s best tips for finding folks in your community who will challenge you to grow (18:15)
- How Ian walks the line of using evidence and experience based practice (24:30)
- Creating a hierarchy of walking the line between experience and evidence when building program (28:20)
- How has pain perception changed over the last few decades (32:15)
- What is Ian’s first step for approaching a pain free mindset and what should be given attention (41:40)
- How to build healthy pain rhetorics with clients who have had previous injuries (47:15)
- Navigating protective mechanisms and self rhetorics following injuries (48:00)
- Your words matter, trainers, physicians, and those working with people need to be mindful of their words (49:00)
Relevant links and further reading:
- Follow Ian on YouTube and Instagram
- Visit Hybrid Performance Method
