PART 1 WITH MARIO MASCIOLI | Season 4, Episode 1

Part 1 with Mario Mascioli is focused on his time with the 76ers organization. We dive into his treatment philosophies, injury prevention protocols and more in this episode.

Mario Mascioli is a professional athletic trainer and performance coach. He is dual credentialed as a certified athletic trainer and certified strength and conditioning specialist. He earned a bachelor’s degree in athletic training at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. With a background in sports medicine, he specializes in helping anyone work around injuries or recover from them. In addition, he has skills in soft tissue therapy to help clients recover from fatigue such as massage, myofascial release, and cupping to name a few. His career started off as an assistant athletic trainer at St. Joseph’s University, in Philadelphia, before working with the 76ers and their G-League affiliate the Delaware Blue Coats for over 5 years. After that, he focused more of his work on strength and conditioning, creating his own business called Mass Movement. He has worked with a wide population of people, from young middle school athletes, to professional athletes, to middle aged weekend warriors and the elderly. He has a passion not only for helping young athletes perform but in teaching wholistic health.  

We dive into:

• Athletic training for 76ers G-league affiliate
• What he learned from 2013-2018 with the 76ers G-league affiliate
• How he worked up from being a "hydration therapist" to working with injury rehabilitation to eventually becoming the head athletic trainer.
• How the 76ers and G-league affiliate did hydration tracking during Mascioli's time with the organization.
• What type of tracking tools and softwares the organization would use to plan or adjust training and injury recovery protocols. (Tool mentioned in the episode: IMeasureU)

• What is load management and why it is or isn't important in basketball.
• trying to put a number to the internal stress put on a specific area, often one with an injury
• What Mario's go-to treatment philosophies are for injury recovery.
• What Mario's exercise and training philosophies are for injury prevention or mitigation, especially lower body.
• When and why to use open vs. closed chain training exercises.
• What are the most common injuries in the NBA and basketball as a whole?
• What were the biggest changes Mascioli witnessed over the five years he was with the 76ers organization.

Make sure to tune back in next week for part 2 where we discuss Mascioli's approach to health coaching and strength training for all populations.

Contact: www.mariomass.com

info@mariomass.com

Instagram: @massmovement21