Episode 48 - Brando Hasick on shoulder health

Brando Hasick (@brando.hasick) is a gym owner living his best active life: surfing, slinging barbells and spending quality time with his new family. Since finishing university with a degree in Exercise and Sports Science he then founded BBB Gyms in Sydney, Australia, where the focus is on transforming physiques, improving performance and getting people to move pain-free.

In this episode, we bond over our common trauma which is recurring shoulder dislocations, symptomatic of shoulder instability. We talk about healthy shoulders in CrossFit and in life, and how to create training protocols for lifelong fitness. Learn more about how Brando somehow got his shoulders back to 100% and can continue pushing high levels of fitness way into fatherhood, business-ownership and builds athleticism for life.

If you're in Sydney, make sure to check out BBB Gyms. Also, all the dads out there, you need to get on DadWodz :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Timeline for the episode: 00:00 Intro 02:15 Presentation of the guest 04:30 Brando’s origin story: from weak, small and always injured to owner of multiple gyms and a family man with mad fitness 13:50 Shoulder health & the most common over-use injuries in functional fitness 16:40 What can we do to maximize shoulder health in functional fitness? 20:30 Other acute injuries in CrossFit & functional fitness 22:04 Brando’s history with shoulder injuries & the long road back to high level fitness 24:40 Construction & Deconstruction 26:25 Three types of muscle contractions: eccentric, concentric & isometric 27:45 Role of range of motion in training for shoulder health 30:30 What’s the role of flexibility & mobility in training for shoulder health?