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Bryan Michelson on Movement, Floor Sitting, Biomechanics Training and the Movement Detox!
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In this week's episode, we are joined by Bryan Michelson as we explore the multifaceted concept of health and embark on a journey into the realm of movement. We delve into Bryan's personal journey, leading into an exploration of the basics of movement. We discuss fundamental principles that underlie the importance of motion for overall health.
We explore Bryan's program and philosophy of the movement detox, which includes the benefits of sitting on the floor, offering practical insights into incorporating movement into daily life. Biomechanics training then takes center stage, where we delve into the science of how the body moves and the significance of proper mechanics.
We explore various manual therapies, including osteopathy, chiropractic care, cranial sacral therapy, and the concept of meridians, considering their impact on movement and well-being. The episode concludes with a discussion on taking responsibility and how comfort should be responsibly avoided.
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Introduction: Meet Brian Michaelson
00:00:01
Speaker
Everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the beyond trade podcast. Today we're joined by Brian Michaelson, fit coach Brian on Instagram. And he were here for episode 12. Like I'm just shocked at the episodes are going up so quickly. And I'm just, I'm just so happy with it so far guys. And I love all the feedback and everything. So I really appreciate you guys. I just want to start with a quick little note there. Uh, but we're not going to dilly dally. We're going to get right into it. Brian Michaelson. Thank you so much for coming on.
00:00:30
Speaker
Love it, man. Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. And yeah, well done on the podcast. I mean, you mentioning episode 12. There's some crazy stat out there, like 90% of podcasts don't get past three episodes. You know, when you get to 21 episodes, you're in the top 1%. So yeah, you need it there. That's awesome. That's great. I love that stat. Yeah, definitely. Definitely.
00:00:57
Speaker
Um,
Defining Holistic Health
00:00:58
Speaker
so we always start the podcast off with getting a little definition from the guest. Right. I always ask that guests to kind of define health and what health means to you. Right. And it's usually not, you know, a really short form answer. It's usually pretty holistic and, um, you know, just, but it gives us great insight onto what the guests really are into. Right. Cause you kind of tell it from your, from your perspective and your expertise. So I just want to ask you what, what does health mean to you in the, in the greater sense?
00:01:28
Speaker
Yeah, I love that. Yeah, that's a big broad question. But yeah, I love it. And, you know, in terms of finding solutions to health, I really think it's behind us. And to me, the true health of us as humans, our physical health, you know, energy drive, you know, passion, it came
00:01:52
Speaker
It's behind us, right? And these further technological advancements, everyone's getting into real technical, trying to tweak the chemistry of the body and the mind.
00:02:03
Speaker
and there's so much nuance to it, but really like the main health that we're all missing, it's in the practices of our ancestors and of our past. So, you know, I really dive deep into the movement patterns, this posture and alignment of our body, the way we're designed to move can really get rid of a lot of physical dis-ease, joint pain, wear and tear, need for surgery that's happening today, it's rampant. You know, that's just going back to the way we're designed to move.
00:02:30
Speaker
through our evolution, childhood development. There's a way we move that we're missing now, that we've moved away from. So we've lost our health. So what is health? Health, in that physical sense, is returning back to it. Nutrition and these lifestyle practices, they're also kind of simple. It's just like, hey, what were we supposed to do? What have we evolved to do? Let's go do that again. And you're a preacher of exactly that. So it's a funny topic.
00:03:00
Speaker
Yeah, it certainly is. Yeah, it is a large topic.
00:03:05
Speaker
You know, what I'm realizing really, and you know, I've kind of been coming to this conclusion for a while now is, you know, health is really multifaceted. You know, it is the physical, it's the physical body, but you can even approach the physical body from so many different ways. Like you, in my mind are, you know, an expert on these natural movement patterns, which is, which is what I really love most about your work, but you know, you're also into so much more than that. Like I saw that you butcher your own animals and you're into the,
00:03:32
Speaker
to the more native way of eating, right? The natural human diet. And so I love that too, right? It's not just one thing, right? It's always more than just that. It's so multifaceted. So yeah, I kind of want to know about your story though. I want to know what kind of brought you here,
Ancestral Practices and Health Philosophy
00:03:48
Speaker
right? And so you have a big focus on movement and these natural movement patterns from what I understand. So I kind of want to know like what led you here? And you know, you can take it as far back as you want to go. I know we were talking about,
00:04:01
Speaker
Uh, you're being born in South Africa and some, uh, you know, your father being a part of safaris and such. So maybe you could even get into that a little bit and then really bring it back. And we'll talk about that more of the movement. So yeah, 100%. I mean, that's, that's a part of my story and a lot of people, what I did, what I do today.
00:04:19
Speaker
Yeah, I originated there, so yeah. I grew up in Zambia, so when I was born in South Africa, but my dad was already living in Zambia with my mom, and I went to South Africa just to be born, but really back into Zambia, and my dad was running safari. So I grew up out in the bush in an area called the Luangwa Valley, was where my dad was
00:04:48
Speaker
running safaris, and it's a really nutritious, beautifully diverse wild area. Everyone hears of the Serengeti in Kenya, which is the real Lion King, big plains of animals.
00:05:06
Speaker
The reason that area, that land is so nutritious is there's a volcanic scar that moves through Africa and it has all these nutrients that fed the land, fed the plants, which fed the animals. It's just like there's a reason there's so much life there. And this volcanic scar moves through Africa and the tail end of it
00:05:28
Speaker
is in Zambia and that tail end of the scar makes what is called the Luangwa Valley and that's where my dad was running safaris and it's just beautiful like lion, leopard, hippo, buffalo, you know all these beautiful plains animals and yeah just true wildlife. So yeah I grew up around that and
00:05:53
Speaker
I was very comfortable with the cycles of life and death, learned a lot from being around that. So it was really like connected to nature. So a lot of these ancestral practices coming full circle is just like, oh, yeah, that's obvious. Of course, that's the way we're supposed to do things. And when I grew up outdoors, always outdoors,
00:06:20
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barefoot, eating well, having a lot of energy outdoors in the sun. And I was just like this really energetic kid and very athletic. So when I went to school, I was just like a little more energetic than the rest, like really bouncy and kind of bulletproof, couldn't get hurt. Any sport I tried my hand at, I like, I did really well. I could run long, swim long, ended up playing water polo and rugby.
00:06:48
Speaker
And it was because of my upbringing, because of being outdoors, because of being barefoot. That's why I was so athletic. But then went to high school after...
00:06:58
Speaker
primary school in Zambia, where I was in and out of school, maybe in the safari areas, whenever there was good safaris going on, my dad would take me out of school. So it wasn't a real big focus for me, primary school. But then I went to high school, which is like, yeah, I was very lucky, my dad. I would just get on the bush plane from Lusaka, which is where our family home was, and went to school near and around there.
00:07:25
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and we'll get on the bush plane and go out to the safari area. It's just like, yeah, skip a few weeks of school, no worries. So yeah, it was fun. But yeah, after primary school, I went to high school in South Africa and I was at a boarding school and it was an old school, traditional boarding school. We wear all uniforms, wore the tight leather shoes, were in desks and chairs all day. And for the first time, I started to like,
00:07:52
Speaker
get a bit rigid, tight, stiff, and
From Injury to Natural Movement
00:07:56
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started towards the tail end of high school, like losing that natural abilities that I had when I was young. And it confused me, right? I didn't really know. So, you know, I started gymming around that time as well. So grade 11, grade 12, which is 16, 17, 18.
00:08:15
Speaker
And I got like, yeah, aesthetic, built some muscle, a little heavier. And I was like, okay, sweet, maybe I'll be even more athletic now. But it turned out to be the opposite. I started to get like, niggles, aches, pains, until I eventually tore my ACL, which is a ligament in your knee. It's quite common, like cutting and turning on the field.
00:08:38
Speaker
I toured playing rugby. It was actually contact. Someone hid into me while I was trying to tackle them, but yeah, it snapped my ACL.
00:08:48
Speaker
you know, also start to have some compression and episodes in my back, start to have tweaks and niggles in my shoulder, and then I dislocated my shoulder playing water polo. And I was just like, why are these injuries showing up? I'm bigger and stronger now than ever before. So yeah, it confused me. And yeah, now I was age of 21, 22, and I dislocated my shoulder, I torn my ACL and my knee, and I was struggling with my back.
00:09:19
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And yeah, I didn't know what it was. So I just kept trying to get back to it, did the physio, did the chiro work, saw all the specialists I could, spent like a lot of money doing it, but still didn't come quite right. Had these niggles, tweaks, couldn't cut and turn anymore, couldn't play sport like I used to, couldn't play rugby, couldn't swim that well, couldn't play water polo.
00:09:43
Speaker
So I started doing more gym training. It's a bit more controlled, you can push it, but there isn't that spontaneity and you don't risk getting hurt. So yeah, I still wanted to push myself, so going to CrossFit.
00:09:58
Speaker
deadlifts, clean swings, snatches, and I had some natural abilities, so I could snatch a fair amount of weight, whatever it was, the numbers don't matter, but it was like 125 kilos you can snatch overhead, you can clean 155, 160, and it was just like, oh, sweet, yeah, I'm strong, I should be able to take anything on.
00:10:21
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And yeah, I was competing in CrossFit. It was my supposedly fittest. And I remember the one weekend that it changed. My friends invited me on a hike in Cape Town, right? So a beautiful hike up Table Mountain. We got to the bottom, parked our cars, got set up. And I was already having some like niggles with my knee and it still wasn't quite right. Even though I was strong, I could deadlift a ton. Three minutes into the hike, it was literally like the first 50 meters.
00:10:51
Speaker
And I like tweaked my knee, boom, and I had to turn around. I was just like, I literally couldn't go on a hike, but I was the biggest, strongest that I've ever been. You know, lean, could hit these CrossFit workouts like nothing, could deadlift, 260 kilograms, could snatch and clean heavy weights, but I couldn't go on a hike, right? Like what was going on? What was missing?
00:11:19
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And it was this real, like, moment that, yeah, I'm doing something wrong. I really, like, I didn't know what it was, but I'm doing something wrong. Physiotherapists, chiropractors, surgeons, didn't really have answers. And yeah, I was just, I was just done.
00:11:40
Speaker
and started to do some rehab, got back into the gym, then tweaked my back again. And I was just like, right, I'm just gonna, I have no future in fitness. I'm not gonna be able to hike, I'm not gonna be able to move. So this was at the age of 23. And I was like, I'm done, I'm just gonna be, you know, pretty much, you know, incapable throughout my life. And was worried what 40 and 50 would look like.
00:12:06
Speaker
But yeah, spent a couple of months in that state where I was kind of depressory. I realized none of the specialists, no one was coming to help me, so I started doing the research. Anatomy, fascia, the way the body's supposed to move, started to connect with guys, doing similar things, pick and choose what different coaches were already doing, and you start to get this picture
00:12:29
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you see what the fitness industry is missing, right? And now this whole movement side of things come in, and it's beautiful. Once you understand the way the body is designed to move, you can realign your posture, your positioning, your joints. Now, instead of putting pressure on joints, you bypass the joints. That's what natural movement is about. Working with these fascial slings, we start to hear this term fascia quite often.
00:12:58
Speaker
You know, I'm not crazy about fascia. A lot of people are like, oh, just fascia, fascia. But, you know, the fascial slings the way the body's supposed to move. Basically, we bypass direct pressure on the joints.
00:13:11
Speaker
And yeah, you go far back enough, look at our evolution and childhood development. We evolved from something that was once a fish. So we had this side bending of the spine, right? Then we progressed onto land where we now like grew limb buds and we are tetrapods, right? So now flexion and extension becomes more important because you're interacting with gravity now.
00:13:36
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So now we've got the spine that can side bend and also flex and extend and that's where we have the spine that we have today which couldn't twist. Now we went from crawling and we crawled as babies and that's very important. But now we're bipedal, we walk on two feet.
00:13:54
Speaker
So our hips do an overhand motion while our shoulders do an underhand motion when we walk and run. Now, what does my spine need to do? It's hard to see when you can't see the bottom, but the spine needs to completely twist, right? And not a lot of animals do that. So we're very different. We're very special as humans.
00:14:14
Speaker
we do something different as babies, as we do as adults, right? You see a baby dolphin get born. It sounds like I'm just going on a tangent here, but you see a baby dolphin get born and it swims right next to its mom exactly how an adult swims a baby swims, right? You see like an antelope, like an impala, it's an antelope in Africa.
00:14:41
Speaker
And a lot of antelope are similar like this. They get born, and they get to walking and running within minutes, like 10, 20 minutes. It's up, running just like the adult does. You look at a bear, and a mama bear, and a baby bear, they move the same next to each other. Mama lion, baby lion, they move the same. Now, babies crawl.
00:15:04
Speaker
And even more complex than that, we first need to take the spine and do the tummy time to get it flexed or extended instead of just flexed. We need to do tummy time, then we get our hips back and behind us, we do these rockers where we get our glutes ready to drive us forward, then we start to crawl, then we eventually progress to walking and running.
00:15:29
Speaker
Now that's so complex versus the dolphin that just like pops out and can do exactly what it does as it's born. So there's a lot of room for error, right? And as we go through, especially with modern inputs, we put babies in chairs, they're in shoes, so they get bad feedback from the ground or don't get feedback from the ground.
00:15:52
Speaker
A lot of babies end up not crawling. Now when it's time for them to walk, their patterns are flawed. Somewhat flawed, it leads to compression, discomfort, pain. And that's happening more and more in the modern world as kids and teens are struggling physically. Ankles, knees, hips, back, shoulders, neck, early in life.
00:16:17
Speaker
But we get back to the floor, we learn these movement patterns that we were supposed to all go through as kids, and we even relearn how to crawl and interacting with the ground, and then all of a sudden you're moving again.
00:16:34
Speaker
but anyway that's where my research took me and i went a bit on like you asked you know how i got here but basically going through those studies and understanding this i was like shit the fitness industry the movement industry is missing a whole lot so i started to apply this stuff for myself and i started to get out of pain then i was back running long again hiking
00:16:55
Speaker
You know and now last year did a half Ironman triathlon like you know 1.9k swim, 90k bike and 21k run. It was just like I did that on a hundred kilograms. After an ACL tear back episode shoulder dislocation I was able to build to a point where I could take a hundred kilogram body through
00:17:17
Speaker
you know that that amount of work it was just like sweet i'm getting the stuff back and now more challenges whatever hikes i want to go on adventures travel it's just like it's all opened up again but like at 23 like live i was like i was done i was like this isn't happening for me i was like all these things that i wanted to do with my life i saw closed down because i've always been like the way i live is is physical it's here all right um
00:17:45
Speaker
Yeah, so I got my life back really, and it was just such a gift. Yeah. That's an amazing story. I love it. And, um, you know, I can, I can certainly relate to it. And I feel like a lot of people can too, because, you know, when I turned 15, I got my, my dumbbells and my barbell and a bench and I was basement and I was hitting the weights. And then, you know, that progressed to.
00:18:12
Speaker
constantly going to the gym you know five six seven days a week and you know that's all fine you know and you're great in the gym and then you try to take it outside the gym and it doesn't transition to real life you know it doesn't transition to
00:18:29
Speaker
to what is natural, right? Because you're isolating muscles and you're, um, so anyways, like I, I certainly got into the gym side of things and, you know, I had rotator, I I've been having shoulder problems for a long time. And so, you know, usually injury leads people to a healthier life. And so I broke my humorous actually playing hockey. I snapped it clean in half.
00:18:54
Speaker
And I didn't get any surgery or plates or anything. And it hung there for about six weeks and the bone just fused back together. But this came with a lot of rehab, of course, because I was in a cast and my arm was locked, you know, kind of like this, right? And so, you know, that came with a lot of rehab. And so I've still been paying for it. However, I've been led
00:19:21
Speaker
away from the gym. I don't want to go back to the gym ever again. I haven't gone to the gym in about a year and I've been getting back into these natural movement patterns and my body's never felt better. But, you know, moving my spine and crawling and, um, you know, even spending time hanging and climbing trees and, you know, just doing things that are more natural is just, has really, it's just been amazing. And you were actually one of the people that I discovered on this journey and, um, have led me
00:19:50
Speaker
You were one of the first people that I learned about crawling and spine movement and proper running patterns. I've had a lot of success with it. I'll share one other story. My fiancé actually, she played varsity basketball. She tore her Achilles tendon. She tore her hamstring as well. She had all kinds of hip pain and knee pain up until recent.
00:20:20
Speaker
She loved to run, but running causing her issues over and over again. She loved to run. Um, I put her on the Vibram five finger shoes and she can run now. She has been running like 10, 13 cases, training for a half marathon now. And she's not having the hip pain and the knee pain and all this stuff. You know, it's, it's sore cause she's working new muscles and she's sore in her feet and her calves. Now she's running, you know, as close to barefoot as you can, but she's also thinking about
00:20:49
Speaker
head over foot and toe striking and all of these little intricate things like getting back into the natural movements. It's just amazing because, you know, it was starting to get, you know, you were starting to feel hopeless, right? Like she was starting to feel hopeless and that is my knee pain ever going to go away. And, you know, it was like a hike and the hip would flare up. And so is this
Embracing Natural Movements with Vibram Shoes
00:21:09
Speaker
going to go away? And then now it's just like, even just implementing these really small changes have had profound effects. And as we implement more and more, it's just amazing.
00:21:18
Speaker
I just love your philosophy. I love the way you got here. Your story is amazing. I could take this, like, I don't know how many directions, but I want to ask about you have a program. It's the movement detox, I believe. Yeah. Yeah. The philosophy of that. And maybe, you know, that could spiral into, you know, what, what is the proper movements? Like, what are these movement patterns? You mentioned crawling, you mentioned, you know,
00:21:44
Speaker
Like, oh, that was the coolest, like 15 minutes ever, man. Like the way you related us to fish. And so anyways, I got to let you have the floor here. So I absolutely love it. And, uh, yeah, you talk about the shoulders and getting the spine moving back, hanging, learning to use that shoulder the way it's designed to throw and strike. And the crawl teaches you that it's just, it's fascinating getting this freedom back and that shoulder can heal.
00:22:12
Speaker
your fiance as well, getting into the five-finger shoes, probably spending more time barefoot as well. The fascinating thing about the feet, I mean, it will go through the whole philosophy and all of it. There's so many tools, but the feet and getting barefoot is just huge because what a lot of people don't know is that there's a sensory feedback connection, the same nerves that innovate the plantar fascia, the sole of the foot.
00:22:40
Speaker
are the same nerves, is the same nerve root that goes up into the hips and connects in the L4, L5, S1. So that's the last two lumbar vertebrae. So the last two vertebrae of your lower back and the sacrum, right? Now that is a very interesting area and that's where a lot of people have dysfunction at their, you know, at their hips, their hips don't know quite, quite know how to,
00:23:07
Speaker
basically absorb the force of the ground when your foot hits the ground your hip needs to move back and the same side needs to pull back to absorb the force of the ground now if you don't have the right sensory feedback from your foot let's say you're stuck in a shoe or your plantar fascia is all scrunched up it's just going to hit the ground and that hip is going to come behind it and just go like boom there's just going to be that impact so that both of you figuring that out it's just like
00:23:36
Speaker
It's amazing and I'm so stoked for the both of you because you know at a young age and feel like your body's breaking down Shit, I'm not gonna find a solution and then to find one so simple. It's just like what and it's That's a lot of physio as well, right? Like, you know, I would guy went to physio for a long time and so Actually kind of upsetting for me because I cycled through physiotherapist so quickly because they didn't want to deal with me anymore
00:24:06
Speaker
You know, I'd go in there and they would tell me, Oh, your shoulders are fine. Like, you know, you have, you have the normal movement, but my internal rotation on one arm, you know, I could touch my, my hands behind my back on this side and I can't even come close on this side, you know, and they're telling me that I'm within the normal ranges and they don't want to deal with me anymore. You know, they don't want to deal with me reaching like this, like, you know,
00:24:34
Speaker
the balance, at least balance between the two. Yeah, yeah, they don't know how to help us. And my sister's a physio and she's done a lot of research on her own. So she's like, she's very, very confident. She's amazing. Yeah, absolutely. Not to pass the whole profession, but just the one that what I
00:24:52
Speaker
It was upsetting to me working. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, but I've had the battles with her like over the years and she's eventually like come to terms with a lot of the limitations of what they studied and seen that they are amazing, you know, solutions out there that are outside of their scope because, you know, they've really gone out. I had the same frustrations, man. It's wild.
00:25:16
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, the amount of times I've been told like, no, you're fine. You should be fine. I don't know why you're not fine. I'm just like, it doesn't feel right. But yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fun.
00:25:28
Speaker
But anyway, yeah, you mentioned I'll go the route of talking about the movement detox and thanks for bringing it up and mentioning that. It's been years in the making. It's been my creation to heal myself and now bringing this to the world is just awesome.
00:25:46
Speaker
It's just, you know, these methods, you know, talk through them. They really are, you know, there's three categories here that I talk about. It's just like the mobility and maintenance system of getting back to the floor and the floor resting postures. Corrective exercise techniques are still important. So the corrective exercise is somewhat like what physiotherapists prescribe. You go through a four-step process.
00:26:11
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looking at each key area of the body, head, neck and jaw, shoulders and upper back, hands and whatever it is, and you go through the corrective process to take care of these muscular imbalances. And then the biomechanics. So biomechanics based training is what I call it, is training in a way that aligns with the way we're supposed to move. When you train the upper body, you train it in a way
00:26:34
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that we crawl, climb, throw it straight. Low body, you train it in the patterns that we're designed to walk, run, and crawl, climb, carry as well. So yeah, it's a lot of fun and I'll go through and I can talk about each one if you call that. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, definitely. I want to hear all of that. Love it. Love it.
00:26:58
Speaker
So the mobility and maintenance, for most people, this is what we need to get back to. So the floor, as simple as sitting on the floor again, you might not be able to see, but I'm sitting cross-legged. I'm on the floor. I work here. Here's my desk. I've got a small little table. I'm not always on the floor. But as often as I can be, I'm on the floor.
00:27:27
Speaker
These floor-seated postures, sitting cross-legged, the full resting squat, and caesar, or kneeling, I think on the big three, that there's 10 in total. I'll go through them all, but this ability to sit cross-legged, sit in a full resting squat, and then caesar, we should all be able to do that. Kids can do that easy, no worries. In certain cultures, they're still doing it. And it is a self-tuning,
00:27:57
Speaker
maintenance system. So when you get back to the floor and you finally regain the mobility to get back to the floor, there's a self-tuning that happens. Your body maintains its postural alignment and that also guides your movement patterns. When you get up and walk and run, because of the way you've been sitting and resting, you have lengthened the glutes and they sit back and behind you. You have lengthened the outer hamstrings and outer quadriceps. So you've got this alignment in your body.
00:28:27
Speaker
And it's just amazing. Most, so many people in the modern world, they can't sit cross-legged. They can't get down to squat and pick something up or even sit down. Like we should be able to sit down, you know, in a squat and sit on our phone, like, you know, read a book or something like that, as we sit in a squat. Like, you know, says that this sort of kneeling position, hips back and behind us, you know, this should be comfortable for all of us.
00:28:54
Speaker
So the big one is if you can't get to these, you spend the time. That's almost your priority. You know, your mobility and your maintenance work should be your priority. So, you know, the 10 poses, if I can sort of start from the top, you know, it's Cesar, a kneeling pose like this. You can tuck your toes back and behind you, right? That one's difficult. It stretches that plantar fascia and everything's kind of,
00:29:23
Speaker
lengthened and primed when ready to go so this toe tucked variation you won't sit here long this is kind of like a standby ready to move a full squat where you're sitting heels down or heels up it's like a paleo squat you know amazing the cross legged variations feet together the soles of the feet together in like a tailor's pose
00:29:48
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Long sit, just sitting with your legs straight in front of you and your body able to sit at 90 degrees. These shoes will all be comfortable for us. Other sort of variations that are asymmetrical, one leg tucked underneath you, one leg here, this is called side saddle. Typically the ladies would sit this way, side saddle is very comfortable, cowboy, one knee up, one leg tucked underneath you,
00:30:18
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We're supposed to just sit and rest this way and hang out, play cards or, you know, read a book, whatever it was. Play cards, I've been given away my age a bit there. I haven't played cards before.
00:30:34
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Yeah, these would rebalance and realign us very well, these floor resting postures. So those are all based on the lower body, they really do decompress the spine and upper body as well. But there's four decompression moves that I add to that and that's a single arm hang, being able to hang like 30 seconds each arm.
00:30:53
Speaker
You know, full grip with your feet up, that's kind of like a baseline to progress to. Some people might start two hands, eventually, you know, their feet are still on the ground supporting them, and they eventually progress to hang on one arm. What that does for your shoulder is amazing. You can do all the rotator cuff work and all of this crazy stuff, but a single arm hang is almost the best thing that you can do. Nice, strong, full grip.
00:31:20
Speaker
Then a quadruped or a crawling pose, which is literally like you're crawling like a baby, and knees below the hips, hands below the shoulders. Literally this pose alone, putting the tongue on the roof of the mouth, chin up.
00:31:36
Speaker
Stretching the neck, getting proud through the chest. You decompression the front side of the body and the neck. Your jaw can release. You regain your natural curvature of your lower back. Your glutes start to engage back and behind you. You learn not to pry into the quads and the knee, and you get into the glutes and the hamstrings. If you tuck your toes, you can have that decompression of the calves, the kidneys, and the plantar fascia. So that one, like just being in a baby crawl pose.
00:32:05
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What I challenge you to and like any of the listeners is like five to, you know, up to 15 minutes I've done. But let's say like between three and five minutes, you just close your eyes, tongue in the roof of the mouth and you just nose breathe nice and easy while you're in this crawl pose.
00:32:21
Speaker
The way your body will let go and find your line is insane. It's insane. I'm going to do that. That's my homework. I'm going to try it. It sounds soft. I know you've done other rockers. You've done a lot of these drills.
00:32:39
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but just spending time letting go, it is huge. Yeah, it's huge. And then the other two decompressive poses like a couch stretch, you got your lower legs up on a couch and you're lying back.
00:32:57
Speaker
and then a forward fold where you've got your toes just as wide as your shoulders, you're standing up on your feet and you're reaching forward for the ground. All of us should be able to comfortably have a hinge where our hands can actually be palms flat on the ground. That should be non-negotiable.
00:33:17
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stability to just get down there. You know, these extreme stretches and the reason like those mobility maintenance floor resting poses, they should guide your mobility work. You play with different variations of that, you know, kneeling on one leg, stretch out the quads, you know, toes tucked, move between squat variations, amazing. Everyone's obsessed over like getting the splits, getting your head to your knee,
00:33:43
Speaker
all this extreme range stuff these frog poses where the toes are out and your hips get it's just wild out there like but these floor resting poses these are only mobility postures you need when you do the extremes you could be all over the place and then you lag your ankle collapses in or your adductor is too long so it's not supporting your knee you end up with a knee injury
00:34:07
Speaker
When I work with yogis who have these extreme ranges, they have the worst biomechanics and movement patterns, some of the worst biomechanics and movement patterns. Even though a lot of them have never been injured because they train in a very low intensity, if they start to get into running, for example, those injuries happen very quick because they have a lot of these extreme ranges.
00:34:30
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but we don't need the extreme ranges, we just need ranges that actually align our body and allow us to move correctly. So those mobility maintenance poses that I went through that guide your movement patterns.
00:34:44
Speaker
And yeah, if you've had serious injury, all the injuries, you have serious postural asymmetries or compensations, like your shoulders are really rounded, you've got scoliosis.
Corrective Exercise and Muscular Balance
00:34:57
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This is where corrective exercise is very important. So for a lot of people, corrective exercise would be important, but it's these four step process where you go through inhibition of what is tight and overactive. So that's getting a tight muscle to relax and let go, right?
00:35:14
Speaker
then you lengthen and stretch the short muscle, you activate what's weak and underactive, and then you integrate, right? So what a muscular balance is, is let's say my right shoulder rounds forward, right? About this shoulder joint, I have the pecs that are tight and overactive. And then I've got the muscles behind my shoulder that are long and weak and underactive, right?
00:35:40
Speaker
Now, I've got to release the pecs, that's step one. I might do foam rolling, myofascial release to release the pecs. I then stretch out the pecs. I then need to activate the rear delts, the rhomboids, everything that's back and behind me. Now that creates that new balance. And then integration is teaching the shoulder how to move with this new balance. So for years, my shoulder might have learned to move like this. And even if I throw and strike and press, it's rounded forward.
00:36:09
Speaker
Now the corrective exercise releases, creates this alignment and balance and now you need to teach the shoulder how to move in this new found balance and normally that will be something like
00:36:20
Speaker
where you interact with the ground, that's a very safe way to do that integration. But that integration can be as complex as learning how to throw differently, like I have baseball players who need to learn how to throw differently or MMA fighters or strikers, they really need to learn how to, if you're doing corrective work for them, they really need to learn how to change their strike completely, because for years they might have
00:36:45
Speaker
you know, been here. And what's beautiful with fighters, it can sometimes completely change their style to open up their body. They'll be like, yeah, I just fight so loose now. It was just like, yeah, a lot of fun. So corrective exercise. If you've had previous injuries, got niggles, eggs, pains, or severe compensations, like it's an important process. It's tedious because that's like sitting on the foam roller, stretching this, doing some of the external rotator work back there, or you know,
00:37:15
Speaker
little small exercises but it's important for a lot of people if you've had previous injury that's like yeah you've got to get in there and that for each key area of the body I won't go over them all but you know I have corrective protocols for each key area of the body the head neck and jaw the shoulders and the upper back the hands the wrists and the upper limb right the arm right the hips and the lower back the the knees and the lower limb so you know
00:37:44
Speaker
I talk about the knee alone, and it's just one joint, but so many people have injuries and imbalances there that it needs its own attention. And then the feet and the ankles. So those are six key areas of the body. And they relate to each other, right? Like an imbalance that you could be having that your ankles and your feet could be coming from your hips. An imbalance that you have in your shoulder could be coming from the hips or could be coming from the feet.
00:38:11
Speaker
So, yeah, after a postural analysis for clients who prescribe specifically where the area of dysfunction is, not specifically, not necessarily where they're having discomfort and pain, but the actual dysfunctional area. So someone who's like, oh, I've rolled my ankle, versus like, hey, that's actually coming from dysfunction, your right glute is holding
00:38:34
Speaker
very tight, you know, it's that right glute and that right hip we need to sort out and not just the ankle. Because a lot of corrective exercise or physiotherapists, for example, they'll look at the side of pain and they'll do some treatment on the actual ankle of the foot, but not the areas of true dysfunction that are leading to that. It's like treating a symptom and not the root cause, to put it simply.
00:39:02
Speaker
So that's corrective exercise. Yeah. So we covered the floor, the maintenance system, the corrective exercise, and then biomechanics training. This is the fun stuff. Like I call it biomechanics based training because we've designed primarily to walk, run, move, crawl, climb, throw and strike, right? Like sure, lift, put something on the shoulders and carry. That's important.
00:39:22
Speaker
But when we train, we need to honor the way this body is designed to move. And modern training isn't really doing that. Part of my system is actually calling out and identifying what is leading to negative inputs and what is leading to harm. Because just like you're detoxifying your body, what is half of it? Half of it is taking out the crap.
00:39:45
Speaker
then you need to eat good food. It's like half of it is taking out processed food, seed oils, refined sugars. It's just like if you don't do that, you're not winning the battle, right? So with buying mechanics training and that detoxification process of your moving patterns, we need to take away the compressive inputs, not just in sitting in chairs all the time or poor posture. But if you're doing deadlifts, cleans, swings, snatches,
00:40:14
Speaker
You're really learning how to create force, but not how to move forwards efficiently, right? You're driving heels into the ground, the glutes are squeezing and rotating the femurs out, but the way we're designed to walk and run and move,
00:40:33
Speaker
We're not designed to be heavy on the heel. We're going to be light on the heel. The hips need to reach back. But what lifting creates is the hips thrust forward. So if you think of a deadlift, clean, swing, or snatch, as you go to create force, the hips thrust open. But when you walk and run, for us to walk and run efficiently, those hips actually need to stay back and behind us. And that's how you're authentic. So when we train the lower body, it's always the hips stay back and behind you. We lengthen it into the glutes.
00:41:02
Speaker
And, you know, we keep the feet straight, right? And we move efficiently. In the upper body, you see the way my shoulders flow and strike. Guys, a little technical difficulty here, but we're back. I hope we didn't miss too much there. But Brian, you were saying you were talking about throwing and proper shoulder mobility. Yeah. So, you know, that the way the shoulders are designed to move is crawl, climb, throw and strike.
00:41:30
Speaker
And the way it's commonly trained is we keep it quite stiff and rigid so that we shorten the range of motion, you see some of bench press, they keep the arms externally rotated, keep the lats engaged, and then the elbows just lock out like that. The elbow locks out like a piston. And that's beneficial to create slow force production, right? And you lock out and the power lifters benefit from that because they compress the heavier weight. But that has nothing to do with the weight that shoulder actually throws and strikes.
00:42:00
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which is why you see these bodybuilders and powerlifters, they don't actually have these snappy athletic abilities outside the gym. Even someone who can bench press a whole lot might not be that quick with his hands, will be able to throw without hurting his shoulder or his elbow, right? That often happens. And they get clumsy. The way we're designed to throw and strike, you see that shoulder shrugs out and elbow rotates out.
00:42:24
Speaker
And we have that, right? So if we're going to press and do some training, let's do it in a way that honors that, right? We might press overhead and let that elbow rotate out or, you know, you could still do some push-ups and press a dumbbell, but you keep that pressure through the outside of that palm and you let that shoulder flow a bit. And you get a little more loose with it.
00:42:45
Speaker
This whole idea of creating as much force as we can, we lose fluidity and snappiness and athleticism. So that's why guys lose their abilities outside the gym. Now, if you honor these biomechanics principles, biomechanic principles, when you're training, then you can go and apply that stuff outside the gym. Like if you do an upper body section, which isn't always just upper body, it involves that movement of the spine, you will still move,
00:43:13
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I like to split up training upper and lower body days just for convenience. It is important or it is beneficial. But you should finish your training and want to move, want to shadow box or do something or crawl or climb. You should feel academic.
00:43:31
Speaker
But what do you guys feel like after they do a bodybuilding session? It's just like, you feel pumped up, you feel rigid, and you're neurologically connected to your muscles. You know this mind-muscle connection stuff where it's just like Arnold is like, feel the pump, you know, it's just like, be inside the muscle, you know, it's just like talking about the mind-muscle connection. And it's like, that is so off because your neurological energy goes into
00:43:59
Speaker
the muscle into different areas of your body. So it's not in the true sense, it's sense organs. So, you know, guys walk around very rigid and stiff because their neurological energy and attentions is in their different musculature. Instead of just in the hands and the feet, a true athlete is connected to the balance and awareness of where their head is. Like, sure, they can, they connect to their body, but the sense organs on the hands and the feet, right? And if you're aware of those, you can,
Neurological Focus for Enhanced Athleticism
00:44:29
Speaker
really be athletic stepping, whether you're interacting with the ground or you're throwing striking. You know, the sense organs are amazing. And, you know, I've got a bit of a tangent here quick, but, you know, in our embryology, which is when the fetus is developing as, when we're babies inside our mothers, right? The fetus, I can't remember which week it is, but the fetus,
00:44:58
Speaker
you know, develops and there's something called the wolfy and rich, right? And the wolfy and rich is where all these sense organs accumulate, right? So the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the ears, the nipples, the tip of the penis or the clitoris and the hands and the feet all accumulating this wolfy and rich, right? The anus is another one. They're all accumulating this wolfy and rich. And when we evolve or, you know,
00:45:28
Speaker
grow, they move into their different parts. But the fact that the hands and the feet are in this wolfen ridge was very key to me, because they are as important as our eyes, nose, mouth, you know, so they guide the way the body moves. So those feet guiding the hips, those hands guiding the shoulders, so important. So us like reconnecting to our hands,
00:45:55
Speaker
letting go of tension you're holding elsewhere in your body, whether it's through muscular tension, because you've been a bodybuilder, or you don't even need to be a bodybuilder to hold that tension. If you have poor posture, you hold tension on the front side of your body, your biceps, your chest, your abdominals, right? So you have that neurological tension that you waste there. If you can decompress the body, you will let go of this tension, and now it's your hands, your feet, and you can just blow and move again.
00:46:22
Speaker
Right. So it's very beneficial to let go of that tension, realign your body. And then also someone who's had an injury. You've had an injury, like how much energy and attention kind of goes into that shoulder. It detracts from everything else you're doing to the point where it could be a hindrance. If you're like, Oh, my shoulder, you're not ready to do anything else. So it's very important that if we have that injury,
00:46:48
Speaker
even old injuries, we break up that scar tissue through corrective work, through myofascial release, and then you get it moving again, decompress the body. So you can just think of your hands, your feet, and you can just play again, right? You see kids and they're just like, oh, what's going on? Where's the ball? Or, you know, whatever it is, whatever tasks they're doing, they don't hold tension in their body. So we need to move away from that in our training, like holding tension and the muscles creating force just so that a muscle can expand and grow.
00:47:18
Speaker
It's a waste. It's a waste of time. It's a waste of your effort and your energy. Yeah. So it's, it's a bit of a statement because there's a lot of people who dedicate a lot of their lives to doing that. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Definitely. But it's an important conversation too. And, and I love the perspective that you take and how you tie it into everything. And so it's like,
00:47:44
Speaker
Some people love, they love it, they love the bodybuilding. So is it like, can you never do it? Is that, is that way? Yeah. I think you can train, like I still train with weights, right? Like I still press and move, but it's always honoring biomechanics. I still like lunge, but it's in a way that I have this intent of moving forwards.
00:48:08
Speaker
right? I'll press or do push-ups but you know I'll back up not be able to do as many push-ups or as heavy weight and I'll just stay explosive because that's the the ability that I want I want to keep the fluidity and then the only actual you know pressing that's important to me is if that can be an explosive strike right like other than calling or climbing when else do you actually
00:48:34
Speaker
press like that I mean sure you know pressing yourself off the ground like sure but you know it's kind of yeah you'd rather be lighter explosive than move improperly and it depends on where you're at as well I mean if you've got poor posture and you've had shoulder injuries
00:48:53
Speaker
avoid it completely at least until you've got that freedom back but if you're moving really well and you've come back to those patterns then you can add some of that lifting on top of that you could still bench press you could still you know do the pull-ups and that's all fine but you've got to build a big base and to me I see this like hierarchy of experiment and at the very bottom
00:49:19
Speaker
is the floor resting posture. It's the ability to rest on the floor. That's almost like a prerequisite. And then it's efficient movement patterns in straight line movement. So being able to walk, run long, very efficiently in these fluid movement patterns. They have the headlining over the foot, fluid spine, straight feet, hips back, all that good stuff. If you've got that in check, then you have the
00:49:47
Speaker
Agility, the ability to cut and turn, explode, sprint, jump and land, right? Now you can build that up on top, right? Now your agility, your cutting, turning is very fluid and safe. Great. Now you can add lifting, you know, striking, throwing, even combat sports. You're doing jiu-jitsu. You mentioned that you're doing taekwondo, keen to hear how that's going, but you know, like,
00:50:14
Speaker
That's all up top after you've built this big base and this pyramid, right? So I see lifting all the way as in like bench press and deadlifts. I see them all the way up there. Like I still would like to be able to deadlift 200 kilos and know that I can do that. But I'm not going to do it often enough.
00:50:36
Speaker
that it starts to go and destroy my base because it will. If you do that stuff often enough, it destroys your ability to sit and rest on the floor and your efficiency in walking and running. And then you're narrowing your base and now you're a very unstable permit, right? And you could topple over and toppling over could mean injury, wear and tear, breakdown of the body.
00:50:59
Speaker
Um, so yeah, it's very important. If you want to do that fancy stuff, build a big base and that's available. So yeah, you can do it. Oh, that's really cool. Honestly, I love it. And I love the pyramid analogy and you know, you liken it to a detox, you know, you mentioned earlier, you said, you know, the, the two components of detox is kind of cutting up the bad and then feeding the good. Right. So it's like,
00:51:27
Speaker
You know, you're, you gotta feed the good. And so it's not like you can never have a cheat day or, you know, something processed or whatever, you know, like, you know, we do live in the modern world and, um, you know, so it's like, yeah, it depends on your goals too, I suppose, how pure you
Modern Comfort vs. Natural Movement
00:51:45
Speaker
want to be. And so some people never, ever, ever want to have anything like that. But I mean, if you have like, you know, one McDonald's fries one day, you know, you're not going to
00:51:54
Speaker
not gonna kill you, right? As long as you have that underlying base, that strong foundation, and you're nourishing yourself properly, you know, these things aren't going to come in and just, and just, you know, I always find fast food really does make me feel like crap. Yeah. Yeah. Completely, but you know, if I'm gonna have like, you know, you know,
00:52:16
Speaker
You can have, you got, you got to be able to enjoy and to do what you want to do. And it depends on your goals too. But I love this. You need the strong foundation, right? So you need to address this foundation and the way you have these 10 resting postures. That's something that I'm trying to get into more. I'm sitting in chair right now.
00:52:34
Speaker
you know i can feel my glutes are like i i just feel through this conversation they're not in the right position no they're not left then you know i'm not sitting properly right like they're not these are designed for comfort
00:52:48
Speaker
for what is natural. And so I always say the comfort. You get too comfortable and you're going to sit all the time for 24 hours a day. Eight, 10, 16 hours a day is not unlikely for people. They go from work at their nine to five job and then maybe it's a desk job. And then you go sit on the couch for seven hours and you eat supper at the table and then you go to sleep. Maybe you sleep on your stomach and that's everything.
00:53:17
Speaker
You need that strong base. 100%. Yeah, we must get your podcasting station down on the floor from episode 39, I reckon. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it'll happen. I'm sure it'll happen at some point. So what about a standing desk? Is a standing like, you know, a good option for, do you want to be standing for these long periods of time? Or is it really resting on the floors better if you're going to be doing work at a,
00:53:44
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Yeah, I think because the floor is a self-tuning and a reset,
00:53:52
Speaker
you know, that that is the most positive. But you know, you don't want to just stay there, right? Like you've seen, like I've kind of shuffled around between different positions. You don't have to stay in any one position. And much like, you know, you can be down on the floor, and you can be seated for a bit. And then you can be standing up. It's when you have a crazy bias towards one that there's a problem. And you see, like today, you think of a modern man's
00:54:20
Speaker
You spoke earlier, you come back from work, sit on the couch, go to bed. Think of from the moment someone wakes up after they've not rested, they get out of bed and they slide their feet off the edge of the bed. And what is that? That's a seat, right? Like it's that seat height. Then you go, you know, maybe you go to the toilet, right? Seat height. You go sit at the coffee table, seat height, you know, have your breakfast. You go to work, another chair.
00:54:47
Speaker
Maybe if you're lucky, you have time to go to the gym and then you sit on the pec deck machine and it's the same thing, seat height. No one gets down to the floor and touches our floor resting posture. So like it's gotta be implemented somewhere. There's, you know, at meal times, sitting and resting, breaks, you know, actual mobility sessions that get you down to the floor, you know, that's really good. And yeah, it's just really important.
00:55:17
Speaker
because we have this bias towards the seed height. But the standing desk isn't bad if you're kind of flowing one side to the other. There's a couple of people who are starting to make a desk that actually reclines or reclines and ascends from standing height. And it can be any height you want from all the way down here to all the way up there. So I've been trying to look out for one of those, but I've just got a couple of different options in my,
00:55:45
Speaker
in my office, yeah. So, yeah, play around with it. Yeah, that's awesome. Okay, I want to get your thoughts. I know we're approaching the one hour. Yeah, I love it. How are you feeling with time? I'm doing good. We can go for, you know, we can go for 20 more minutes, probably. We can go for a whole lot longer, I'm sure, but we'll cut ourselves off there. No pressure.
00:56:11
Speaker
I want to know your thoughts on osteopathy, massage, chiro. We touched on physio, how maybe the corrective exercises have a time and a place. And I personally have had a lot of success with osteopathy. Now, I really do think it comes down to the practitioner too, because my osteopath is telling me about primal movements and crawling and all of these things that we're talking about now. So I really think she's tuned in with the natural movements.
00:56:40
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I don't can't speak for all osteopaths but that's been my experience it's been really positive and even the body work is very subtle and the philosophy that she speaks to me about how it's really like you know it's about these small releases and how the hips and the shoulders are connected and even that can manifest in the neck and how you know if you have a slight you know you're imbalanced and your neck is off well it likely starts at the maybe the hips and then it goes even go down to the feet and so
00:57:08
Speaker
I like that perspective. You know, I don't know. I just kind of want to hear your thoughts on maybe osteopathy and maybe massaging Cairo because you'd mentioned Cairo earlier. I don't know what your perspective was on it. So I want to give you the floor and maybe talk about stuff like that. Love it. Yeah. I mean, they're all amazing practitioners and they dedicate to their craft of respect to them. And they know things that, yeah.
00:57:33
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I don't know, so I haven't gone through all the studies. When my sister went through a physiotherapy school, I did get all her anatomy and physiology. I studied as she went through it as well. I studied the anatomy and physiology. I have some insight into what they study, at least the physiotherapist. But the osteopaths, the craniosacral therapists,
00:58:02
Speaker
amazing stuff that I see. I know some of them even work with the energetics of the body that I really don't understand. I've seen osteopaths, you know, two, three times. And, you know, I'm just fascinated by, you know, what, what they learn. You know, also what they see, I'm just there to learn and listen. Even the
00:58:26
Speaker
those who do acupuncture, the traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, amazing stuff. I don't understand at all, I'm not going to pretend to, but there's just something there in those practices that have been around and treating people successfully for thousands of years, like traditional Chinese medicine. And they are working beautifully and those practitioners
00:58:52
Speaker
You know, they claim that what is being mapped. So the Chinese meridian map is what acupuncture works with. So they map these meridians of the body. You might know this for your audience. There's various lines around the body that don't follow
00:59:08
Speaker
the lines of where muscles lie or even fascia or you know even our veins or our circulatory system when western doctors dissect where the meridians are supposed to be they see nothing so they're like oh this is this is rubbish um but the tradition but there's something to it like it's working now the chinese claimed and thought that what they were mapping was blood flow and cheese
00:59:37
Speaker
So we know from our understanding of the circulatory system that it's not blood flow. That's not where blood floats. We understand that the circulatory system well enough to know it's not that. Like chi is very elusive. It's this energy, it's a cycle. You know, yeah, it may very well be it. But one amazing practitioner
01:00:03
Speaker
his name is Philip Beach and he wrote a book called Muscles and Meridians and he from a somewhat western perspective tried to understand the Chinese meridian map and he studied it and went through it and he thought that what what they're trying to map was actually lines of contractility so when you respond to a stimulus you can have
01:00:27
Speaker
whole body response, like your body knows how to adjust and manipulate to avoid like any tension, like if a needle touches you here, you know, your entire body knows how to react instantaneously. So there's these contractile lines that the body follows. And I think that's what the Chinese Meridian map
01:00:51
Speaker
is actually mapping because they use acupuncture to change the way you're holding tension in the body. And, you know, you have these beautiful releases. So I think they are, they're working with that. But that's just my take on the traditional Chinese medicine. And like, yes, it works. Yes, we don't understand it, but there's something to it. And that's what I think about all of them, even though
01:01:17
Speaker
chiropractors I don't really know what they're doing when they click and pop and you know it's just like are they really making alignments and adjustments are your joints actually going back into alignment and play it's just like you know there's some people who don't think that's the case but they're definitely doing manipulation and adjustments that seem to be positive and people get great results from it so whatever you're getting great results from great
01:01:44
Speaker
I trust the ones that have been around a while. So, you know, the traditional Chinese medicine and the Chinese map, there's something to it. So, you know, even in my own studies, I'm trying to like dive deeper into what they're actually mapping there and how they manipulate the body. So, yeah, just love all the practices and respect them all. And even, you know, I don't mean to have spoken down on anyone in this
01:02:10
Speaker
in this podcast here talking about physiotherapists and chiropractors earlier.
Personal Responsibility in Health and Growth
01:02:17
Speaker
The fascial massage therapists are doing something amazing. The way they manipulate the fascia and track the attention through your body. I don't know if you've ever had a massage from a fascial specialist. When I had that treatment, they just know how to track
01:02:40
Speaker
the lines of tension in the body to find this root cause. It's just amazing. And just like, it's like the way your body naturally adjusts something. So if you feel a tweak between your shoulder blades, you know, just like your whole body knows how to kind of talk to get the exact spot, right? You know exactly how to get the spot that you, you know, and they just know how to do that from feeling your body and where the fascia is holding tension,
01:03:06
Speaker
Um, so the fashion massage therapists, which I believe some of the best are in Canada. You guys have amazing, um, you know, what do you call it? Education programs for massage therapists. So yeah, check it out. Find yourself a good massage therapist out there. Yeah. And I mean, it's all about results too. I like the way you put that because it's like, um, you know, you, you feel a lot of, you know,
01:03:35
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It's difficult, right? It's like, you know, I haven't had much success in physiotherapy, but at the same time, you know, the physiotherapy took me from my broken arm to a state where I could, you know, play hockey and get it and move. And, you know, I was, you know, I'm fine. I could go to the gym, right? That was my goal at the time, right? It was to get back into the gym. And so it's not like, you know, you can't blame any practitioners for your problems either, right?
01:04:02
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we're taking responsibility here about our own bodies, right? And how we're the experts. Yeah. I think really thing because you know, at the time when I was working with a physiotherapist, it was all about getting back into bodybuilding, get it back to the gym. And so, you know,
01:04:21
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that's what they did. They got me back into the gym and now I was looking for something where I was looking for more perfect balance in my body. Now I'm working with an osteopath who's really helping me with that and obviously doing a lot of research on my own and kind of just listening to my own body. But it always comes down to yourself too. Like it comes down to
01:04:40
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You're getting on the floor. You know, you got to get out there. You got to change. It's a lifestyle change too, right? If we're constantly in this seated position, as you highlighted the beautiful story of how we're always in this position, you know, going to take responsibility for that. You know, there's no, there is no practitioner that's going to get that out of you from, you know, an hour a week or so.
01:05:06
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You know, I think that's really important. I think that's really important. Yeah, yeah, you got to give yourself the power back. And when you when you give these practitioners too much power and expect them to save you, you become lazy yourself. You don't move anywhere. It's like us giving doctors the power over our health. And it's like we're realizing we guys actually don't know shit like we're going to reclaim our health ourselves. And that's the way it's been working.
01:05:32
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Nala saying hi, she's been sleeping a little proper. Yeah, it's our responsibility to get our health and our movement back and it's simple and you learn these practices and principles and it's
01:05:59
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It's simple. And the way I work with clients is just like, I want to teach you these tools so you can take care of yourself. The worst thing is someone wanting you to rely on them. So just like getting in the healthcare system and being reliant on the meds, it's just like you're in the system now and you're not getting out.
01:06:19
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But you learn how to eat right yourself, how to take care of yourself, how to get outside, breathe, meditate, ground. It's just like you don't need anyone else. And that's what these tools are, is you learn how to get back in connection with the floor. You learn the corrective exercise techniques and your specific imbalances. You learn how to train in a way that aligns with our biomechanics. And you get the power back.
01:06:44
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Yeah, that's what it is. Anyone who's doing anything meaningful and they truly want the best for someone is just like, you teach them how to take care of themselves. What's the, yeah, you teach the man fish. You don't just keep giving him fish, right? Yeah. I love it. I love it. That's perfect. That's what we're all about. We're all about responsibility and that's really it.
01:07:06
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In all of health, when I think of health, it's responsibility too, right? It's like, you don't want to blame other people. You can't blame other people, you can't blame other things. Any final thoughts? Yeah, no, just thanks for coming beyond that. You mentioned something that is worth coming back to. It's just like,
01:07:27
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you can't keep chasing comfortable, right? And the things we know, the conveniences, you know, sitting up in the chairs all the time, you know, it's just these conveniences are hurting us, you know, like not taking care of your own nutrition, your own food, you know, even to the point where, you know, you're hopping on just deciding to, you know,
01:07:51
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You know, just watch Netflix or scroll through reels, do what's comfortable and keep giving yourself that high instead of going to work out and do something uncomfortable. And it's just getting the ball rolling and realize, especially as men, you know, doing something uncomfortable, how much that gives you, you know, something that's positive and uncomfortable.
01:08:12
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And I wanted to bring it back to you and your cold plunges, right? You're doing them out in the sea off the islands there. You and your fiance were jumping in the sea and that's the videos I first saw of you. I was just like, that is the perfect example.
01:08:29
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You get comfortable with doing uncomfortable things that are positive for you and lead to a good response. And then you build that build that willpower slowly. And the reason I mentioned that and the reason I mentioned specifically men is because men need this most, especially us young men, we're being, you know, our problems, we're being told to take care of them somewhat like we might
01:08:55
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The ladies might thrive, you know, think about it, talk about it, you know, like dive deep into your feelings and go back in time, you know, immerse in these feelings and understand that sometimes we just, we're upset or we're pissed off because we're not doing anything challenging and we're born to get out there, do something challenge, do something challenging every day.
01:09:19
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conquer something, thrive, you know, and yeah, get out there, hike a hill, move. And if you're losing those abilities to do that physically, you know, that can be a tough place. But that's where, you know, this sort of information comes in handy. So yeah, bit of a tangent there, but just, I don't know if you have anything to add on that, but just like not seeking comfort is,
01:09:47
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Just like, we're not made for it then, we're not made to, we're not being comfortable with that. To producing something, you know, instead of, you know, you want to produce more than you consume. Right.
01:10:02
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would be a note that I put on and this, we might have to circle back to this in the next episode, you and I, you and me down the road because this could be a whole discussion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm doing one of those cliffhangers, you leave them hanging ready for the next episode. Yeah, hey, that's perfect, that's perfect. Well, I think we gotta have you back on, so that's great. I appreciate that and thank you and it was really great and you're a great host, so thank you.
01:10:31
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I appreciate that. I want you to, before you go, I want you to tell the listener where they can follow you and how they can. Oh, I love it. Appreciate that. So on Instagram at fit.coach underscore Brian is the easiest place to find me. And then, you know, you'll reach out from there, but yeah, Brian Mitchelson, Brian with a Y. Um, yeah. Fit.coach underscore Brian on Instagram is the easiest spot. Right.
01:10:58
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We'll put a link to it in the notes here in the show notes. Appreciate that. Great. No, thank you for coming on. I really appreciate this. It was fantastic. Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Cheers. All right. Now I want to thank you, the listener. You should all know that this is not medical advice. This is for your informational purposes only. Also remember, we're responsible sovereign beings capable of thinking, criticizing, and understanding absolutely anything. So always keep that in mind.
01:11:30
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own well-being. We always get back to that in every episode for some reason, so that's a central topic, that's central. You know, we the people and the greater forces are together, self-healers, self-governable, self-teachers, and so much more. Please reach out if you have any questions, criticism, comments, concerns, anything, reach me up beyond.terrain on Instagram. And listen, I really, truly appreciate everyone that took the time to listen. This honestly was one of my favorites so far. It's just getting better, guys.
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