Movement Revolution Podcast Oliver Christian Peña

The Movement Revolution Podcast is proud to bring you a 2 part series on Blood Flow Restriction. Our guest is no other than Chris Gaviglio, PhD. He has experience with Blood Flow Restriction or BFR for 15 years, using it with athletes of different disciplines such as Rugby Players and Olympian Decathletes. BFR has been accumulating growing evidence in performance and rehabilitation. Coach Chris talks about the 5 mechanisms of BFR, as well as an EXCLUSIVE of how BFR helped an Olympian in the Tokyo Olympics.

Dr. Chris Gaviglio has been involved with elite sport for over 20 years working across multiple Winter and Summer Olympic sports and professional football codes in both the northern (Bath Rugby) and southern hemisphere (Queensland "Maroons" Rugby League team, Wallabies – Australian National Rugby Union team and Gold Coast SUNS AFL).

More recently, during the recent 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Chris was the S&C coach for Beach Volleyball Silver medalists (Taliqua Clancy & Mariafe ArtachoDelSolar), Decathlon (Cedric Dubler and Ashley Moloney - Bronze medal), 200m sprinter Riley Day, and double silver Paralympic medalist Isis Holt (100m, 200m T35).

Topics in the Episode: 

2nd min. Start of Dr. Chris Gaviglio’s career

5th min. Bath Rugby

7th min. 20s First time to use an Occlusion Cuff

7th min 50s BFR with Andrew David Butch’ James former South African Rugby Player 

10th min 45s Car Park Chronicles

15th min BFR vs Flossing

17th min. BFR creating a localized hypoxic environment

19th min. Increase in Hormonal responses

19th min. 30s Stimulation of

Intermuscular signaling pathways ( motor pathways)

20min. 45s Muscle Fiber Recruitment

22min. 30s The Key to BFR is Exercise selection

23min. 20s Low Resistance in BFR 20% of Repetition Maximum

25min. Passive BFR or Ischemic Conditioning

27min. 35s Post-Op Rehab with BFR

30min. 30s Using BFR with an Olympian Decathlete, Cedric Dubler, who tore a hamstring Before the Tokyo Olympics, Cedric Dubler. 

Have you ever wanted to have glimpse of Strength and Conditioning in the Philippine Basketball Association? How about the Philippine National Team?

If YES, our guest for the Episode Top Level Strength and Conditioning in the Philippines is Coach Nathan Futalan. He is the Head S&C of the Magnolia Hotshots as well as the current Head S&C of the Philippine Men and Women’s Softball National team.

Coach Nathan is such an insightful professional and his passion for his craft shows throughout the episode. He shares his knowledge and experience working in the Highest level of Philippine Sports in this Movement Revolution 2nd Season episode. 

The language in this episode is a mix of English and Tagalog.

Season 2 is here for 2022!

Chris Johnson is our guest, he is the author of the book Running on Resistance. A very complete book for people who want to improve their running or for Healthcare Professionals who want to improve their knowledge in treating runners. 

4m15s The importance of building a young athlete’s base with multiple sports

6m25s Farmer’s carries/March 

11m45s Shorter step length 

13m15s Quick guidelines in training for a marathon 

17m50s HIIT for endurance 

19m Category Ratio Scale 

24m30s Differentiating Sensitization and pain from Injury 

27m20s Differentiating Hip Pain Issues 

33m Pain science education for Endurance Athletes 

Greg Lehman is a Titan of the Pain Science Community. 

In this episode, 

I first asked him about Lamar Gant, when I was in his Reconciling Pain Science with Biomechanics workshop it was the first time I heard of a person with Scoliosis who could achieve World Record feats. 

I then continue to ask him about how he approaches managing people with Scoliosis. 

Regarding Pain Science, 

I first asked him how he became inclined to teaching Pain Science Education. 

In addition,  asked him for clarity about certain concepts  that he has distributed with his Recovery Strategies- Pain Guidebook. 

For example,  For example, Pain is Normal; Pain can be Weird though. 

Greg expounds on certain experiences he has with professionals who have learned Pain Science from him.



This is the Final Episode of the First Season of the Movement Revolution Podcast! 

If you have 20 minutes for listening, I would like to invite you to pop it in your playlist. 

Travis Pollen goes in depth with content of his PhD studies. 

Shoulder assessments such as the Apley's Scratch Test and the Neer's test were discussed in relation to its possible effect in College Swimmers. 

Movement Revolution was very fortunate to have Travis expound on his expertise in Swimming. 

Travis Pollen, aka the Fitness Pollenator

graced the podcast with his presence!

He is such a fascinating person, on top of all his accomplishments. 

Travis just recently got his PhD Dissertation Published in the Journal of Athletic Training. In his swimming career, he is also a record-holding Para-Swimmer. 

In addition, Travis, is an extraordinary Personal Trainer, who has even co-authored two books. 

Learn more about him by listening to the episode that marks one year of the Movement Revolution Podcast.