Dr. Bryce Lee (Insta: strengthspaceva) is a former Surface Warfare Naval Officer turned Director of Therapy and Co-founder of StrengthSpace, a provider of resistance-based exercise and physical therapy services.
Bryce became a Body By Science and high intensity strength training devotee and advocate following a string of acute and overuse training injuries he incurred during his time as a CrossFit, kettlebell and powerlifting addict.
Dr. Bryce Lee at StrengthSpace
Bryce’s doctoral program focused on orthopaedics, pain neuroscience and the relationship between systemic inflammation and “mechanical” disorders like tendinopathy and osteoarthritis. Once he was promoted to Director of Therapy, Bryce was able to prioritize education of patients and this eventually afforded him the opportunity to open StrengthSpace.
This was a really fun episode and the first on the show to make a foray into the world of physical therapy and strength training.
Dr. Bryce Lee working his magic and supervising a client on a seated row machine.
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Highlights:
- The political climate of physical therapy science
- The practices from physical therapy which Bryce has incorporated into his strength training service
- How to screen and work with injured or physically impaired clients
- A quick discussion on tactics for optimal hypertrophy
- …. and much, much more
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Selected Links from the Episode
- CrossFit
- Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week by Dr Doug McGuff and John R. Little ( Amazon US / Amazon UK )
- LiveOak Strength
- Resistance Exercise Conference
- Nautilus, Inc.
- Two-point discrimination
- Gluteator Glute System
- Dynavec
- Hammer Strength adductor machine
- MedX
- HITuni.com
- BioFit
- Lojek Performance Pin
- Sigma Nutrition
- Drop-sets
- Rest-pause
- Myo-reps
- MedX Leg Press
- Borge Fagerli on Myo-Reps, High Intensity Training and Biorhythms
- The Person I Call Most for Startup Advice (The Tim Ferriss Show with Naval Ravikant)
People Mentioned
- Dr Doug McGuff (Listen to my episodes with Doug here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4)
- Mike Bradley
- Fred Hahn (Listen to my episode with Fred here)
- Owen Dockham (Listen to my episode with Owen here)
- Dr Ted Dreisinger
- David Butler
- Peter O’Sullivan
- Laura Moseley
- Dr. James Steele (Listen to my episodes with James here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4)
- Luke Carlson (Listen to my episodes with Luke here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5)
- Doug Holland (Listen to my episodes with Doug here: Part 1 and Part 2)
- Dr James Fisher (Listen to my episodes with James here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5)
- Matt Cousins
- Jay Vincent (Listen to my episodes with Jay here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3)
- Skyler Tanner (Listen to my episodes with Skyler here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6)
- Borge Fagerli (Listen to my episode with Borge here)
- Dr. Carl Juneau
- Danny Lennon (Listen to my episode with Danny here)
- Menno Henselmans (Listen to my episode with Menno here)
- Dan John
- Naval Ravikant
- Tim Ferriss
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Glad to hear there’s another evidence based resistance trainer in Virginia!
Great interview – love the comments at the end about desire v. acceptance of where you are and satisfaction. I think it’s good to have a little of each. I keep coming back to the math: suppose, at age 35, that I can gain 1 lb of muscle per year indefinitely. In 50 years, that would give me 50 more lbs of muscle mass than I have now. Further, suppose I could increase my heavy, compound lifts (leg press, deadlift) by 1 lb per week indefinitely. At that pace, in ten years I’ve added 520 lbs to each, and in twenty years, 1,040 lbs to each.
Seems there has to be a point at which the purpose of training shifts to maintaining health and fitness, which doesn’t mean that I won’t keep trying to get stronger, but that it’s okay to accept where I am today, especially if I feel great and can do all the things I want to be able to do.
Great episode.
Great interview , good ideas about possible results, location choice, ‘sharing ‘ the location with others etc. Certainly also the interpretation of pain and when to know that now a client IS a patient that need (first) to be taken care of by another Healthcare provider.
Striving to progress while “knowing”that much muscle isn’t to gain anymore is the core of staying above flatline…..this presupposes a rational approach and control of emotions. Marketing tries to fuck this up with a result of doubt. Know and understand the proces and the method based on this is IMO needed to keep progressing in the sense that getting older and being able to move around painfree is a way of not regressing. Just think about it. The older you will get the more you will “understand”. That’s a promiss!!!
Great interview Lawrence’s! I actually found BBS and HIT through a frozen shoulder. A physiotherapist recommended slow controlled exercises, I found Dr Doug McGuff via his interview with Dr Mercola, and as they say the rest is history.
Seven years later and still going strong!
That was an enjoyable listen. I don’t know Bryce personally, but I still kind of feel like I know him from reading the many posts he made on the old BBS site. Seems like a good guy, and I am glad to see him carrying his interest in fitness to the next level, if you will. I wonder if he gets many referrals from Primary Care Physicians who want to ‘prescribe’ strength training for their patients?
Regarding locations: Crossfit has been quit successful in the US, and most of those gyms (‘boxes’) are off the beaten path, usually in cheap warehouse space within industrial parks. Since client retention is supposed to be good with HIT studios, word of mouth and referrals would seem to be the more important source of traffic.
Greg P.
Thanks for the kind words! My business is still young and as such, I don’t receive many referrals directly from MD’s. Marketing directly to MD’s can be a costly endeavor, as they often expect lunches and other niceties. I don’t fault them – their time is valuable and many people are competing for their attentions. But I am taking the tack I mentioned instead – carefully selecting a few MD’s and referring people to them. The hope is that they will recognize that I am referring based on their skill, and will reciprocate.