Phil Mafah on ACC Network Road Trip, 08/19/24

all right guys here we are uh back in my day Alex we did not have this so Alex uh Bea the director of applied sciences where are we what are we doing in here Eric Welcome to our 100 yards of Wellness this is a football fields worth of resources staff and equipment to help athletes feel their best and hopefully perform their best so we collaborate heavily with applied science and sports medicine to give the treatments tools rehabs Diagnostics and Recovery modalities that athletes can leverage not just in their time here but after their time at Clemson and there's a lot of cool toys in here too right is there a favorite for you I mean I'm looking at all this beautiful equipment what's uh what's your number one yeah number one thing that's grown since we started in 2019 as a department is our infrared light exposure so we use tholy 360 beds uh that expose athletes to different wavelengths of infrared light uh which helps stimulate the tissue repair process at the cellular level there we go all right well I heard Phil mafa is a frequent flyer in here I'm going to go find him and see his daily process here yes sir yeah you're going to definitely find it there he is Phil mafa my man hey what's going on what's up brother I heard you are like the guy that's always in here so I had to come to the source to get the tour oh yeah so what do we got here man I want to hear about your routine why you like this area and just how it helps you so you're starting in a massage chair it looks like what we got going on here um well I like to use the massage chair especially when I come in first uh wait usually waiting on the gun um it just loosens up my body my back and I just just feel like it gets me prepped for a day's work so I love using the massage chair before practice and um just gives me energy before practice I love that okay well let's go through your routine man let's let's start with here uh whatever you see tell me why you like it and and what are we looking at equipment wise here okay um here we got the hyperbaric chamber um I did a little research on it uh when we got it and I just figured out like athletes like Kobe LeBron have used it and it just allows you to be in pressurized space and you wear a mask and it basically uh fills with oxygen so it allows your body to recover faster um being in that pressurized space so I love using it I feel like it opens up my breathing and um allows me to you know really have stamina yeah well the good thing is we have so many more things to look at here walk me through just when are you doing this why are you doing this and how did you kind of understand that hey we have all these great things I've got to use this to the best of my ability uh really every day every chance I really get to come in here or whenever I'm in a facility I like to use this space and um I really just realized I needed to take advantage of it when I was talking to beina uh he talked about how NFL guys always come back here and how they talk about how they got to spend uh x amount of money in different places just to use these resources so I I think what's so interesting is is having number one that mindset of knowing hey these resources aren't everywhere right they're not every every school and so to be able to take advantage of that I mean you look at a Year's Worth or what you've done over your career that's probably like 75 100 Grand worth of stuff that you know you get here cuz you're a Clemson athlete all right I see this big massive branded deal here what the heck is this all right so this is our thite it basically is red light therapy um it allows helps with inflammation I really use it before and after practice uh it helps when you use it on a consistent basis so I try to use this really whenever I'm in here yeah okay and then I think we have a couple more things up here is that right do you use any of these toys oh yeah is this like a float chair what is this oh this this the hydro bed okay usually I get on here with some normex uh and I put the Hydro Bed on for my back and normex on for to flush my legs out yeah yeah all right so you're just a pro man you're in college but you're a pro man I appreciate you this is awesome to see good luck this year my man thank you appreciate you very much back over to you guys