The Post Game Podcast Ep. 34 - Dr. Ismael Gallo, Founder of Baseball Flows: Movement Patterns, Neuroplasticity, and Self Belief
Dr. Ismael Gallo is a former professional baseball player and current doctor of Physical Therapy.
After playing 5 seasons in the Los Angeles Dodgers minor league system and while launching his career in the PT field, he created “Baseball Flows,” a system that helps players create body awareness and ultimately move better.
His Baseball Flows app includes therapeutic exercises and instructional videos, carefully selected to address the specific needs of players.
In his own words, he is eliminating the complexities often associated with training systems with a click and train approach.
His goal is to empower players to take control of their training and embrace the joy of every moment spent training and on the field.
What You’ll Learn About:
- High School drop out to professional baseball and getting a doctorate
- Missing component of movement patterns
- Can we get players to move better?
- Compete, have fun, be a good teammate
- Transition from being pro player to going back to school
- Interconnectedness – nothing works in isolation
- Developmental kinesiology
- Systems are always evolving
- Great coaches understand the fundamentals, have BS meter
- Players exploring and having fun
- Neuroplasticity in stroke patients
- The idea that anything can grow
- What you focus on can change quicker
- Using social media for positivity
- Believing in yourself
- Random Things equal Random Results
- Importance of body awareness
Timestamps:
(0:00) – Intro to Dr. Ismael Gallo
(3:00) – Unconventional path
(3:40) – Impact of Coaches
(5:00) – Natural lefty swing
(6:00) – Can we get players to move better?
(7:00) – Alex Cora
(8:15) - .340 at 160 lbs.
(9:00) – Information overload
(10:30) – The beginning of Baseball Flows
(11:30) – Gaps in teaching movement
(13:30) – Everything is connected
(15:15) – Global Movement Patterns
(16:10) – Developmental Kinesiology
(16:50) – Movement screen
(18:50) – Baseball Flows app
(20:00) – Don’t have to overcomplicate
(21:50) – Fundamentals
(22:15) – Understanding when good info ends and BS begins
(24:00) – Figuring it out yourself
(26:20) – Neuroplasticity
(28:40) – Anything can grow
(30:00) – Deliberate practice
(30:45) – Athleticism
(31:45) – Power of Social Media
(34:15) – Focus on the positive and put in the work
(36:20) – Advice to young players
(37:20) – Self Belief
(39:10) – Being too coachable
(39:45) – Tommy Pham
(41:20) – Where to find Dr. Gallo
(42:00) – Random Things = Random Results
(45:45) – B Till perspective
(47:00) – Body awareness
(50:00) – Hard to do the movements?
(51:50) – Flows on the golf course
Dr. Ismael Gallo DPT, MBA on X.com