'Guideline number one is if it feels wrong, it is.' Joe Dolcetti
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Joe Dolcetti is a futurist and an innovator in the field of human performance with an intimate and innate understanding of human movement and flow. He has a conditioning training, coaching and sport science career that has spanned over 31 years around the globe and has had the very fortunate opportunity to work with and learn from many of the world’s top sporting programs. This has given him a truly global understanding of human adaptation to training.

As a creative force and leader in the field of high performance Joe conceptualized, developed and launched the LILA EXOGEN Exoskeleton line, the world’s most advanced wearable resistance technology which is rapidly gaining ground as a potentially game changing transference tool for specific strengthening and movement coaching. Exogen is being hailed as ‘ground-breaking’ and ‘revolutionary’ by top coaches and sport scientists globally including the renowned Dr. John Cronin who currently oversees LILA’s world class research team at AUT – SPRINZ.

'The problem is we start with the solution before we understood the problem.' Joe Dolcetti
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In this episode I discuss with him :

• integrating kaos into teaching and athletic performance


• the evolution of strength training for elite sports


• how to create a world class performance facility


• using innovative loading principles to improve speed and power in elite athletes


• a new approach to improve motor learning while ‘playing the game’


• his boxing skills & Malaysian thunderstorms

'If you don't have skin in the game, there's no learning happening.' Joe Dolcetti
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You can find out more about him and his projects at www.movementrevolution.com

FULL TRANSCRIPT

The Order & Kaos of Human Potential – the podcast about the science and the art, the known and the unknown territories of human performance and health.

<<01:15 >>

Gerrit Keferstein:    Welcome back, everybody. Gerrit Keferstein here. It’s been a real busy week for me. I’ve been traveling a lot and I’m so happy to be back in my current base here back in Sonora on Bali. I’ve been to Adelaide, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong all within 13 days. in Adelaide I was brought in by Tom Patrick of the South Australian Sports Institute. Really I had an awesome time there. They brought me in to consult on regeneration but really I felt like I learned more from them than they probably learned from me. It was really great experience there. I spent some time with the track cycling team of Australia and with coach Lynn Monroe and she does a fantastic job there, managing the training process and managing communicating with the athletes. I was really, really impressed by that. I had a couple of beers with the sports physiologists and the strength coaches and it was just great to share their view on things and share my view on things too. Then we went to Singapore. The reason for that was not work but it was fun. I had my first Brazilian Jujitsu competition and it was awesome. It was really cool. It was awesome for me to be back competing again since I stopped playing football. It’s been five years since I last really competed, not in training but real competition. So, that was real cool for me. I had a silver medal. It’s actually perfect. I lost one match and I won a match. So, it’s a good balance. The Brooklyn Monk told me it’s always good to win one match and lose one match. Then you don’t have to deal with being undefeated or having not ever won one match. So, it was actually perfect. It was a lot of fun. And then I went to Kuala Lumpur to the Olympic Council of Malaysia and I visited Joe Dolcetti there, which this podcast is about. I’m going to tell you a little bit more about Joe in a short while. And then after that I had four days in Hong Kong and the goal for that trip to Hong Kong was to speak to a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. I mean, obviously we have those in the United States, we have those in Canada and we have those in Germany but the goal of this podcast is to really dig to the roots of the things and to the things in between the lines that’s not written in books and I want to find those people that basically don’t have the time to write books because they’re so busy finding the real world solutions. I think I found one of them and that’s a traditional Chinese doctor and this podcast I’m going to publish next week.

<<04:11 >>

                            Regarding medicine, there’s a new article in the blog. It’s called Practical Difference Between Conventional And Alternative Medicine. My motivation behind that blog post was I’ve always felt like I’m between two opposing entities and one of them is the conventional medicine entity and one of them is the alternative medicine entity. I’ve trained in conventional medicine in Germany. I’ve gone through all the evidence-based medicine you can go through. And I’ve always felt some heat against practitioners of alternative medicine but me being a coach, working with athletes on a daily basis, I’ve always found that there are some things that are not in the academic sciences that actually really work in the real world and I see it with my office on a daily basis. We do something, be it a nutritional intervention or supplementation or training regime, and we see the results but there’s no academic research on that. And then sports scientists come in and say “Hey, why do you do that? There’s no research on it.” I don’t really care. There’s results and that’s why I always sympathize with practitioners or some practitioners of alternative medicine because they have a similar mindset. They just care about the results of the single patient they have in front of them. And it’s good if there’s economic research for it but it’s not always the case. So, I always felt like I’m in between those because the alternative medicine practitioners, they’re always bashing the conventional medicine practitioners; the conventional medicine practitioners are bashing than the alternative medicine but I don’t think that’s necessary. I think there are some key similarities and there are some key things that differentiate the approach that the people, that the general mindset, just the approach and I think I summarized it pretty well in the new article. So, check it out. Let me we know what you think.

<<06:20 >>

                            Also, I added a new feature on the home page. It’s called the subscribe button. Somebody recommended to me I should add a subscribe button and I did and it’s right on top of the home page. And when you subscribe there … Really I’m not going to get on your nerves, I hate spam, my mailbox is full all the time, I hate when somebody sends me unnecessary and unvaluable information. So, I’m not going to do that. What I’m going to do is once a month you’re going to get an email from me with the top articles of that month and that’s it.  So, in case you don’t check your homepage every day like most people obviously do, in case you don’t do that, you get an update once a month. So, subscribe.

<<07:07 >>

                            And now, let’s get to it. Joe Dolcetti, he’s of mixed Canadian and Italian heritage as his name kind of suggests and I met this really, really interesting guy in the Netherlands. It was last year. We were both invited by Henk Kreijenhof for a really small seminar that Hank held in close to Amsterdam and it was a really good seminar and Joe came in all the way from Malaysia to present on his ideas. And he’s been in the trenches from, I think, the last 30-40 years. He’s been a strength conditioning coach since the East. So, he’s been there from the beginning of when strength conditioning really came about within sports and he started in Canada but the last 17 years he’s been in Malaysian at the Malaysian Olympic Council and he’s not only there for coaching but he’s also had a really interesting idea that we’re going to talk about.