This week, we are talking about the concept of Corrective Exercise, and as always this conversation is framed by the latest article that we posted on the Reading List at StrongerInMotion.com . The title of the article is: Revisiting the Corrective Exercise Conundrum, written by Dr. Ben Geierman and published by our friends at Barbell Rehab . Recently, the J ournal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy published an editorial that included the following statement: "In physical therapy, managem...
Feb 26, 2021•6 min
Our guest this week is none other than Stacy ‘Bama’ Burr . Bama is a former competitive power lifter who, in 2019, achieved her lifelong goal of becoming the Strongest Woman in the World , achieving a powerlifting total of 1,435lbs - including a 565lb squat, a 320lb bench press and a 550lb deadlift - all while weighing in at only 148lbs bodyweight. The road to this achievement was extremely rocky. She lost friends, lost touch with family, and nearly lost herself to a battle with depression and h...
Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 33
Welcome to this week’s episode of Health & Fitness Friday on The Essential Strength Podcast . This is your 5 minute download of some health and fitness knowledge meant to make you a little bit smarter and a little bit stronger as you head into the weekend! Today we are going to finish the conversation we started two weeks ago about Why Fitness isn’t Essential in America . In part one, we discusses the ways in which the fitness industry itself - and how we represent ourselves to the public - ...
Feb 19, 2021•7 min
Our guest today is Georganne Moline , and she has a distinction that very few can claim - Olympian. Georganne is a professional Track & Field athlete who represented the USA in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, running in the 400m hurdles. Her olympic chance came relatively early in her career, while she was still a student athlete at the University of Arizona. Despite that early success, Georganne experienced self doubt and anxiety that were often crippling. If she underperformed, she cou...
Feb 10, 2021•54 min•Ep. 31
If you are a person who goes to the gym, you’ve likely experience A LOT of frustration in the last 11 months since the COVID-19 Pandemic started. You’ve also likely seen a lot of rhetoric that looks something like this: If liquor stores are open, why aren’t gyms? Are we saying that alcohol is more essential than exercise? OR If 250 people can be shopping in a grocery story, why can’t 6 people be training at a small gym with all the same protocols in place? I don’t have simple answers to these qu...
Feb 05, 2021•7 min
Today’s guest is a kettlebell specialist who is on a mission to help women build strength and master the art of training with kettlebells. Her name is Colleen Conlon and her story is one that I am so happy I have a chance to share with all of you listening to this podcast. As the title of today’s episode implies - Colleen hasn’t always been a confident, kettlebell swinging exemplar of strength. For major chunk of her life she was anything but. She was timid. She was uncomfortable in her own skin...
Feb 03, 2021•52 min•Ep. 30
This week, we’re looking a little deeper at how the fluids you choose impact hydration, as well as other areas of health. Let’s start by reiterating the fact that the majority of your fluid intake should come for plane old water. Nothing groundbreaking here. Intrinsically, I think we all know that water should be our beverage of choice most of the time when it comes to staying properly hydrated. Next up on the list of hydrating fluids - are coffee and tea. Third on the list is skim or 1% milk an...
Jan 29, 2021•9 min
Today we have a guest that is sure to inspire all of you. His name is Jason Hardrath . Jason is an elementary school PE teacher in a small town in Southern Oregon who spends his summer breaks on trails all over the country chasing what are known as FKTs - Fastest Known Times - which he defines in the beginning of our conversation today. His ultimate goal is to set 100 FKTs which involve anything from simple trail running over epic distances and sometimes multiple days of effort, to mixed discipl...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 29
Welcome to a very special episode of the Essential Strength Podcast , coming to you on Saturday morning, January 23rd, 2021! It’s a historic day, and you are about to find out why! Today, we have a conversation between myself, and Mike McCastle , and if you are listening to this on the date of release, today is the day that Mike takes on his 8th Labor - attempting to break the world record for time fully submerged in ice. The goal - 3 hours packed in ice from the neck down. Now, for those unfami...
Jan 23, 2021•32 min•Ep. 28
Welcome to this week’s episode of Health & Fitness Friday on The Essential Strength Podcast. This is your 5 minute download of some health and fitness knowledge meant to make you a little bit smarter and a little bit stronger as you head into the weekend! We’ve been talking about exercise for the last couple weeks, how it’s quite possibly the single most effective way to improve your overall health and also why it’s so hard to form an exercise habit. Today, we’re going to shift gears a littl...
Jan 22, 2021•7 min
This is Episode 27 and our guest is Kyle Sullivan . Kyle has been sharing his story, speaking on his experiences with alcohol addiction, the trials he faced, mistakes he made, lies he told himself and others, and strategies he has used over the last four years to go from the lowest point imaginable - writing his suicide note - to the point where, in his own words he is just “happy to be existing on this planet”, happy to experience everything this life has to offer and happy to connect with anyo...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 27
Welcome to this week’s episode of Health & Fitness Friday on The Essential Strength Podcast . This is your 5 minute download of some health and fitness knowledge meant to make you a little bit smarter and a little bit stronger as you head into the weekend! So, why is it that we haven’t evolved to enjoy something as beneficial as exercise? Evolution has created all kinds of hacks, loops and short cuts that in essence trick us into enjoying things that are good for us. But not exercise. Why? I...
Jan 15, 2021•8 min
Today we have a guest that I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the chance to speak with. His name is Patrick Sweeney . He is the author of Fear is Fuel , and a keynote speaker that Inc. Magazine has called “One of the world’s most interesting people”. He is a cancer survivor, a father, and a philanthropist. Patrick spent 6 years interviewing and learning from three dozen of the world’s top neuroscientists on how fear and the act of overcoming it, creates changes in the brain. He took all tha...
Jan 13, 2021•57 min•Ep. 26
Happy Friday, it’s been … quite a week kicking off 2021. We’ll leave it at that, and move on to the reason you’re here - to gain some health and fitness knowledge as you head into the weekend! We’ve got a really cool, and in my opinion honestly life changing bit of science for everyone today. We’re talking about a breakthrough in preventive medical treatment that has been shown to address an incredible amount of common illnesses, ailments and other maladies. It’s a treatment that is backed by a ...
Jan 08, 2021•5 min
Today’s guest kicks off 2021 here on The Essential Strength Podcast, and it’s the first in a series of episodes that will all focus on mental health and mental strength. Our guest today is Ricky Simon , a professional UFC fighter from Vancouver, WA whose next bantamweight fight is on January 16th on Fight Island, part of the upcoming UFC Fight Night on ESPN. In today’s episode you will get a glimpse behind the curtain, into the mind of a fighter. We talk about Ricky’s upbringing and how combat s...
Jan 06, 2021•47 min•Ep. 25
Questions or comments? E-mail Us - david@strongerinmotion.com - or hit us up on Instagram - @essential.strength.podcast Have your subscribed to The Essential Strength Podcast yet? - If you’ve enjoyed this podcast so far but have not yet subscribed, that would mean a lot to us. Episode 24 Today is Episode 24 and it’s episode unlike anything up until this point. Today, we are sharing a highlight reel of some of our favorite definitions of strength from guests up to this point. Featured Guests (in ...
Dec 16, 2020•17 min•Ep. 24
Questions or Comments? E-mail us! - david@strongerinmotion.com What's Better: Walking or Running? There's a lot to unpack in a question like this, but today's episode aims to tackle the two biggest reasons why people might wonder - "Should I walk or should I run?" Want to learn more? Check out the link below for an article from Medical News Today ! https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/walking-vs-running Catch ya'll next week!...
Dec 11, 2020•5 min
Today is Episode 23 and our guest is Laura Poburan . Laura is the founder and lead mentor of TriggerMapping - a certification and mentorship program for nutritionists, dieticians and wellness coaches. Her core philosophy revolves around how the power of connection and human psychology must be understood and used with clients to cultivate permanent, deep and meaningful change. She is leading a shift in the weight loss industry away from traditional coaching practice towards a more healing-based a...
Dec 09, 2020•51 min•Ep. 23
You are in for a treat this week, an incredibly powerful conversation with Karin Steere , my favorite professor from my PT school program who is still teaching the physical therapists of tomorrow while also completing her PhD in neuroimmunology. I know the title this episode focuses on her roles as an educator and a physical therapist, but the first 30 minutes of this conversation played out more as a conversation about where human beings draw their motivation from, the impacts of our lived expe...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 22
We know physical activity and exercise is important to our health and well being. And we know that being physically fit reduces the risk of serious complications should we be exposed to COVID-19. But what do most of us think of when we consider being “physically active?” Walking? Jogging? Riding a Bike? We used to think about about going to the gym - and I believe we will again in the future - but even then, there’s a reason the elliptical, the stationary bike and the treadmill are the most freq...
Nov 27, 2020•4 min
Today is episode 21 and we had the pleasure of spending about an hour talking to Cody McBroom , owner of Tailored Coaching Method , host of The BoomBoom Performance Podcast . Cody is an entrepreneur who has built an extremely successful Nutrition Coaching business, he is a nutrition specialist, a coach, a husband, a father and in his own words, he is PASSIONATE about personal development. A few points to look forward to include Cody’s personal story of being the “chubby friend” growing up and wh...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 21
Welcome to this weeks episode of Health & Fitness Friday on The Essential Strength Podcast! This is your bite-sized podcast designed to make you a little smarter and a little stronger heading into the weekend! This week we’re talking about the concept of Social Jetlag and whether or not Blue Light blocking glasses actually work to help improve sleep and recovery and prevent this new form of jet lag we are likely all suffering from to one degree or another. Today’s podcast is inspired by a re...
Nov 20, 2020•4 min
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Essential Strength Podcast! Today is Episode 20, which feels like a big one! It’s one of those nice round numbers that feels like a milestone and we’re lucky enough to have a big guest for today! We had the chance to sit down for an hour with Stefi Cohen and Ian Kaplan of Hybrid Performance Method to talk about their new book, Back In Motion . For those who don’t know, Stefi Cohen is The Co-Owner of HYBRID Performance Method, a Doctor of Physical Therapy, 25...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 20
My wife and I had COVID-19. Today was my first day back in the gym now that I've achieved the benchmarks for days since first symptoms, days without a fever and symptom reduction. The strangest part - I never actually tested positive, even though my wife, Rebecca, did. We made no effort to distance from each other after I developed symptoms and yet... I still tested negative... TWICE and with two different forms of testing. And that is, in large part, what this episode is about. It's not about t...
Nov 13, 2020•5 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Welcome to Episode 19 of The Essential Strength Podcast with our guest this week, Maggie Dong - host of the Mind Muscle Enlightenment Podcast and someone who has a powerful message to share about expanding out definition of what it means to be healthy and fit. On today’s episode, we talk about Maggie’s four pillars of fitness, what is means to “do the work” and how the journey is so much more important than the destination. We talk about a recent episode of Maggie’s podcast that I found super in...
Nov 11, 2020•56 min•Ep. 19
What’s up everyone, it’s David back with this weeks episode of Health and Fitness Friday. Your bite sized podcast meant to make you a little smarter and a little stronger at the end of every week. We’re still riding the back pain train this week, but we’re taking it BACK IN TIME. Back Pain seems like a modern dilemma. We sit more and more for our jobs, we sit and watch Netflix at home, we sit in our cars and therefore we have back pain. People probably didn’t have back pain before our lifestyles...
Nov 06, 2020•5 min
Today’s guest is none other than Adrian Conway - former pro-football player, multiple time CrossFit Games Team Champion, Coach, Podcast Host and Co-Founder of FNX Fit . On today’s episode we talk about Adrian’s athletic background, the birth of FNX and their commitment to building a supplement company grounded in transparency, quality and community, we talk about Adrian’s recent venture into podcasting - he is the host of RISE and POD with Adrian Conway - and I ask Adrian about the importance of...
Nov 04, 2020•57 min•Ep. 18
Congratulations ! You have made it to the end of another work week and that means it’s time for Health & Fitness Friday here on The Essential Strength Podcast! This is the bight sized podcast meant to make you a little smarter as the week comes to a close! This week we’re talking about how to take control and start undoing some of these painful connections and feedback loops that cause pain when you just think about an activity like walking, carrying groceries, etc. I read a great analogy fo...
Oct 30, 2020•7 min
This is episode 17 and our guest today is Max Artsis . Max is a coach, trainer and speaker based in Los Angeles. In his own words, Max is fortunate to train gold medal Olympians, and athletes in the NFL, MLB, WNBA, NBA, and NCAA. He spent 6 years at Nike World Headquarters, including time as the Nike Master Trainer Network Lead, was the Director of Sport Science and Education for Rokke Performance Therapy , and continually keynotes for companies/conferences globally. He is endlessly fascinated w...
Oct 28, 2020•51 min•Ep. 17
Today we’re continuing our conversation about pain, and in particular we’re asking the question - why do we feel pain? What is the point of this unpleasant sensation and why, if it’s so important, does it seem that we all experience it differently? Pain is, at its core, our body’s way of signaling a real or perceived threat. That threat is most commonly one that could cause damage to the physical structure of the body. We experience pain as a way of breaking the pattern and creating a sensation ...
Oct 23, 2020•6 min•Ep. 12
