General Fitness Companycast

Today, we're talking posture and all it indicates for your body. Did you know that everyone has some degree of scoliosis? It's the level of curvature, if it gets to be to high of a degree, then you tend to have issues. Today, we're going to learn a few exercises that will help you strengthen and stabilize your spine. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

Today we're going to talk about the difference between passive and active stretching. More people need to know what they are doing because stretching incorrectly is leading to an increase in back surgeries among younger adults. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

Back in the 80's there was a diet called the "water diet." It was a diet where they would give you water and vitamins and you would lose weight. People would say it was because it kept you satiated so you didn't want to eat, but there is a little more to it than that. Today, I'm going to investigate this water diet and we're going to find out what the fattest animal on the planet can teach us about weight loss. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

In this episode, I talked about the struggles of plateauing in your performance. Performance can be more than just the gym. However, how you do some thing is usually how you do everything. So we're going to talk about using some strategies that I use for my clients as well as my own business to help with success. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

Today, I wanted us to think about this phenomenon that we've been seeing in the fitness field lately related to mobility training. You see a lot of people mistaking mobility training for skill work, but more importantly, you have people (mostly influencers) teaching people how to create mobility through instability. That's a big no-no! Hopefully, in this episode, the takeaway for you would be to understand what you're doing when you're stretching. This understanding will help you to develop a mobility routine that will help you improve your range of motion without sacrificing joint stability. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

Did you know that there are two ways to build muscle? Today's episode is a short one about building muscle mass. Most people think that you can't build muscle mass with straps, especially since most of the training videos are of high intensity core workouts. But today, I'm going to tell you how you can double your results with less effort. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

Today, I'd like to tell a little story about my evolution as an athlete and as a trainer. In this episode, I talk about how I went from World Champion powerlifter to mobility aficionado in less than a decade. I changed my philosophy for many reasons, one of them being that I wanted to move without pain for the rest of my life. This episode will help give you some of the tools necessary to do that as well. Check out the YouTube page for more mobility and TRX videos. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

In today's episode, I took what we've been talking about over the past couple of episodes and broke it down further to talk about you as an individual. Everyone is different, so they should absolutely be paying attention to what makes them different. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

Today, I wanted to expand on what I was talking about in the last episode on rotations. It seems that there was confusion as to what I meant by your body needing to rotate and control that rotation. I'm going to break it down as best I can so that you can design a better workout that is based on intelligent movement that helps you move better. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

Today, I'm talking to all the runners out there that want to be faster. You need to be more mobile and you're not going to be able to do that through stretching. I'm going to talk about the body's natural way of moving especially as it pertains to running and I'll talk about a simple way you can train yourself to be a better runner without having to even take one step on the track or the trail...or wherever you train. Listen closely because I'm about to dispel a few beliefs you may have about flexibility. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

In today's episode I went a little more esoteric and talked about freedom in your life through authenticity. However, I brought it back to fitness with a little talk about freedom of movement and how many people are thinking about mobility in a way that makes their joints unhappy. This was a spin off from an email I sent to my email list. If you'd like to be a part of that, you can sign up at General Fitness Company. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

I wanted to make a correction to a previous episode. I had misspoken about the amount of protein an average person should have. I accidentally converted the pounds to kilograms and back to pounds when I read my notes. To make up for it, this episode is an ultimate myth buster about exercise and how so many people (especially in my industry) have been preaching something that is ultimately harmful for the average person. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

Today we have a special episode with Megan Dupree. She's an expert in diagnosing and treating Nervous System disfunction. This is a clip from a conversation we had about the stress response and what coffee does to it. We'll be seeing more clips from this episode and if you'd like to episode in its entirety, check out our YouTube page next week. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

In today's episode, I'm talking about rest. Not sleep so much, but rest. I'll be talking sleep more in depth later on in an interview I did with a very knowledgeable associate. Today, however, I want to talk about rest and how to do it during times when you feel overwhelmed. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

This last weekend I had an interesting conversation with my accountant. He was telling me a few things and he had some financial advice that I think would also be helpful as health & fitness advice. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

The way we used to workout doesn't work any more, yet people still hold on to it like a toddler to their favorite toy. It doesn't work anymore, yet people still cling to it. Listen, this isn't an episode poo pooing other methodologies of training. This episode is going to teach you why people train the way they do and how I learned to create successful training programs for each unique individual. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

One of my clients asked me how much cardio they have to do to get the body they want for the summer. I responded with, you'll have to do cardio from now until June without stopping. I joke, but it's sorta true because cardio is the worst way to burn fat. Let's find out the best way in this episode. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

Double number on the episode felt special this time around so I put together a two for one episode. The intro to this one covers many of the topics that I wanted to discuss in the second half about posture, however, I was locked into teaching people how to do a specific exercise so I didn't get down to it. In the intro, I talk about something very important to posture and it's intra-abdominal pressure. Listen closely to the first half because it certain has some invaluable gems that I usually reserve for the folks on my app. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

I've talked about this what feels like too many times, but today I found someone that I know on social media stretching in an interesting way and when I talked to them about it, it made me think of a different approach to this stretching discussion. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support

We all know that posture is healthy for you. Or is it? You see all those gadgets that remind you to have good posture. Phone and smart watch alerts reminding you to sit up straight. Chest straps that you wear to keep your shoulders back. What does good posture actually even do for you, besides make you look taller? I'm going to talk about the functionality of good posture. Why you should actually train your posture, but probably not in the way you're thinking with yoga and other unstabilizing movements and postures. Let's chat about how you can prevent injuries and improve your overall life (maybe even become smarter) by improving your posture. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generalfitnesscompany/support