Meet Prof. Giovanni Abdel Chacon De Léon
Prof. Giovanni Chacon De Léon, AT-Rehabilitador Fisico, has served as trainer and rehabilitation therapist to some of the top performing athletes in the world. Notably, he accompanied Usain Bolt to the 2008 Beijing Olympics where Bolt gained worldwide fame for his double sprint victory in world record times, making him the first person to hold both records. He has worked professionally with U.S. Major League Baseball teams the Houston Astros and Colorado Rockies and individually with star athletes like Manny Ramirez at the top of their games.
He also lectures widely in his native Panama on how to apply solid strengthening techniques to avoid injury. And, he regularly provides physical therapy to the veteran community.
Pursuing his desire to apply the latest in technology and scientific techniques to his clients’ athletic perfection and rehabilitation, Chack trained with Dr. Jose Acero of Columbia’s Instituto de Investigaciones & Soluciones Biomecaanicas. IISI, as it is known, equips select trainers and therapists with biomechanical tools and insight, much of it derived by NASA for its astronaut corps. Working with the Olympic 100 meters sprinter Arturo Deliserm, BioLab De Léon hopes to apply these techniques to the next generation of Latin American athletes. Read more
With professional athletes and serious amateurs alike, Chacon De Leon, known as “Chack” to his clients/patients, applies leading edge biomechanical engineering technology to determine what performance they are capable of – pushing the envelope on their potential achievement – and to measure progress in their healing and recuperation.
All such athletes share two things: a passion to excel at their sports, and the commitment to expand their own abilities to achieve their personal best.
This takes careful observation, coaching, and professional training rooted in deep understanding of the body’s own mechanics and propensity to perform. But it also takes patience, empathy and encouragement: the ability to inspire courage, positive spirit and hope. All these factors, and many intangibles like the interaction of body, mind and spirit, drive what Chack likes to call “The Way of the Lion.”
So, if you possess:
