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I think the sweet spot I've seen with time is usually around the four-and-a-half, five-month mark.

We have an Alter-G, so we can start a little bit earlier.

With strength, I like to see at least somewhere around a 65% LSI and 175% torque.

I feel like if they're there, their quad has enough... strength in it to support the knee yeah and one of the big functional things i do is like you need to be able to do a good eccentric eight inch step down so i know that you have eccentrics in the mode as well so i think those are my big things for like running just to be like hey listen this is this is where we're going to start from but i try to educate my cartilage patients like uh listen i'm fine with you running i'm totally cool with it If you're going to come to me and be like, oh, I'm going to be a marathon runner.

You've only got to look at recent posts by Xavi.

He's running on a treadmill called an Alter-G at the training ground, which is basically an anti-gravity treadmill, which means that he can run deloaded.

So he can remove, say he weighs 75 kilograms, he can set the anti-gravity treadmill so that he's only running on a 40 kilogram load through his knee so it's like a it inflates a big airbag around him and and when you look at it that if he's not fully loading the knee on a treadmill he's a long long way away from getting out on the grass um And look, I think Madison was fairly quick.

Dragason was fairly quick in terms of their ACL recovery.

One of the first, um, people to do this publicly was, I mean, you and I both know Connor Burns.

Um, he worked with his dad, I think he's like a sales rep for Booster, AlterG or something, I don't really know.

Mm-hmm.

And they were doing a lot of work on an assisted treadmill in high school.

Most people, that would be around four if you're more aerobic, you're a 5K, 10K guy.

I'm an 800-meter guy, so my threshold is a little bit higher.

Um, so if I'm doing some reps at four flat pace, and we're, we're working on a theory, I'm gonna do some more testing with this, um, especially if I continue training and, you know, push for something much faster, um, doing some assisted running, that would be, i.e., taking bicarbonate, i.e., taking, um, y- you know, using a lever, using an AlterG, an assisted running piece to basically take some weight off, so I'm running at 70% of my body weight or something like that, um, titrating that up and down to get to the threshold mark.

Um, and then, you know, changing the, the duration as well to make sure that that works.

I am familiar with it, but I haven't used that either.

Okay, because it's different than an Alter-G, but the same concept, right? You can take part of the load off, and you could order one online right now and use it on a treadmill at home or at your gym or whatever.

It might be a little weird using it at your gym, but you could certainly do it.

So access to a lever is probably... easier than like yeah driving an hour to get but um a lever is another another option where you can run but it's still i mean i get it it's not going to replace the the chatty miles with your friends you know well

Even the live high, train low 20, 30 years ago, that was a crazy idea, right? And now it's like just regularly accepted.

So one of Riley and I's crazy ideas that I would love to try if I had the time is not just to train with bicarb, but to actually use something to unload or unweight yourself like a lever or an Alter-G and and then run at much, much faster paces that are most similar to the pace you're actually going to run at during a race.

And some would say, well, that's not going to work because you actually need the forces involved with that higher running speed.

And I do agree with that to some extent, but I do think at the same time that if you're obtaining a certain level of metabolic loading, and if you've still involved that level of high intensity loading elsewhere, you probably would see, my theory is that this would work.

Um, and Kittle, man, he- anytime he's injured, he takes his rehab extremely seriously.

He bought an AlterG for his barn in Nashville.

I would pay money to go to his gym, um, out in Nashville.

He, he has the perfect setup, and he took his rehab seriously, as we all was- would expect.

At that point, I was running one to two times a day, and the volume was a lot higher.

With the load management now, um, when it comes to running, I've also started using a Lever running unit, which is similar to an anti-gravity, uh, running machine, like an AlterG, and it's a portable one, so it fits in my backpack.

I travel with it, and so if I feel like, you know, a little niggle coming, niggle coming along or feel like maybe I'm pushing the limit a little bit, I'll do an easier run on that to kinda offload the body, and you can run up to, I think, I think it's like 20 pounds off your body weight.

How does that work? I can't, I...

How do you fit an AlterG in your backpack?

Yeah, it's incredible.

You should go and check 'em out.

I've never heard of it

So he's heading, turning in the right direction.

He's now on our Alter-G treadmills.

He's running with decreased body weight on that treadmill.

He'll do that for the next few days and we'll get him back outside next week.