Tanner Care on Foot Strength, In-Season Training, and Unlocking an Athletes Superpowers

Tanner Care is the Director of Performance for both the BC Lions and the Vancouver Bandits, and over the past couple of months, I’ve really enjoyed learning more about his thought process and approach.

So why not bring him on the podcast and dive a little deeper?

In this episode of the show, Tanner outlines his comprehensive approach to training basketball players.

Whether it’s using force plate assessments to drive his program design, or simply being more effective with our in-season and foot/ankle specific training, I really think there’s something in the episode of everyone.

Let’s dive in!

Quotable Quotes:

The Natera run-specifics ISO’s were great because it allowed me to broaden my lens, and ultimately provide clarity as to where these athletes are potentially deficient

I want to have a relationship so I can – at the very least  – transfer their data and show what we’ve kind of mapped out over  of the summer

I talk to my athletes all the time about this notion of poison and antidote. If we look at the sporting demands of basketball, it is a ton of breaking forces, a ton of accels and decels, and that’s going to impose a very large demand on the body – so we need to know what the antidote is

This Week on the Physical Prep Podcast:

• Tanner’s background and his current role with not one but TWO professional sports teams
• His overarching training philosophy and focus on athletic adaptation
• The assessment process he uses to onboard and test his incoming athletes
• How he buckets athletes based on his assessment to drive better adaptations
• Tanner’s thought process on integrating and collaborating with the team sports staff
• Navigating the (always tumultuous) in-season period
• The power of isometric training in-season
• Why he originally became fascinated with foot and ankle training
• Low-hanging fruit with regards to improving foot and ankle function
• And last but not least, some key takeaways for young and aspiring coaches!

Connect with Tanner:

• Tanner on Instagram

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