Renowned French prankster Remi Gaillard took advantage of the euphoric scenes in the wake of Lorient's 1-0 win over Bastia in the 2002 Coupe de France final at Saint Denis to join the winning team on the field and on the podium for the post-match celebrations replete in a Lorient kit. Remi partied like he had just scored the winning goal himself and even merited a handshake from then president, Jacques Chirac. Remi has also starred in a number of YouTube clips, showing his considerable ball skills.

MM: Are there any situations where you would recommend the inclusion of foam rolling, dynamic stretching, or mobility drills before this type of training?

CT: Marc, you know what I hate the most about the strength training field? Guys who pretend that they know everything. And by extension they give their opinion on all subjects and try to make recommendations about every one of them.

To me, the sign of a good coach is to be able to say that he doesn’t know something and refer you to someone else who will know better.

So I’ll confess and tell you that I know squat about foam rolling, stretching and mobility. I always had decent mobility because of my background as an Olympic lifter; the Olympic lifts put your body under load in some pretty extreme positions! So I never bothered to research stretching and mobility work extensively. I have some of my employees who take care of that portion of my client’s training (one is a former Ballet dancer, who was also in the Cirque du Soleil for a while and is a pilates teacher… she can full squat over 315 so she’s no wimp either).

I’ll admit that I should have dome more foam rolling in my career as I suffered from a lot of shoulders, knees and back problems. My mistake… maybe I will begin to read on it