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Welcome to the Born to be Barefoot podcast, where we thrive on adventure, and strive to spread knowledge in the ways of optimal movement, balance, and longevity in activity. Your guides, Stuart Gordon... more
FAQs about Born to be Barefoot | From Science to Life:How many episodes does Born to be Barefoot | From Science to Life have?The podcast currently has 58 episodes available.
May 17, 2023Injury Prevention and Recovery with Katie and Stuart | Athletic Performance and HealingIn this episode join Katie Tsuyuki and Stuart Gordon as they chat about some of the things that have popped up in the other podcasts talking about injuries and how we can help avoid those injuries and keep people recovering from them. Katie experienced some injuries during her snowboarding career and needed some help recovering, which happened when our previous guest, Joe Vecchione, introduced her to the Barefoot insoles. We discuss the importance of brain speed and being able to process things mentally, which can really affect an athlete’s performance and how well they do. ACL injuries and gender 3:30Proprioceptive stimulation 5:50Brain speed 10:55Gait testing 18:15Helping with brain damage 19:30Not just athletes deal with injuries 24:40“To me there’s this massive influence of that sensory nerve stimulus and it’s about stabilizing joints. What you have to do, obviously whatever the underlying cause of these ACL injuries are in female athletes, is you gotta get the muscles around the joints stronger to protect the ligaments.” 6:10...more31minPlay
May 10, 2023Sports Training with Joe Vecchione | Helping Athletes Avoid InjuryIn this episode we have the privilege of speaking with a Canadian soccer coach by the name of Joe Vecchione, who has a diverse background in conditioning from soccer to swimming. We discuss women’s sports and the idea that often there isn’t much incentive for women to keep playing beyond a certain point because of dead ends they might find there. We talk about various exercises, such as those that have to do with your groin, quads, or hamstrings, that athletes should be doing to avoid injuries. Getting stronger in a sport or technique, you also have to make sure you’re preparing with the additional issues that may arise from developing yourself in order to balance things out and be prepared to avoid injury. Special things coming in Joe’s career 1:00Ideas on how to keep girls playing 10:00Snapshot of a day for Joe 17:20Joe’s thoughts on tech, exercises 21:55The Nordic 26:30Recommending the insoles 40:40Testing 46:30Specialization and training 56:00“You have to remember that they’re already training a lot. They’re already training multiple times a week and have a whole sport to prepare for, so you really wanna be as effective as you can with less training…doing a little bit less, but making sure you’re recovering more.” 33:17@joevex...more1h 8minPlay
March 29, 2023Shredding the Halfpipe | Crispin Lipscomb's Snowboarding Journey and Mountain AdventuresToday we have a wonderful guest from the Canadian snowboarding world who featured in a previous podcast episode if you want to go listen to that one. Crispin is a former Olympic snowboarder and a partner in crime for Katie, specializing in the halfpipe event. Lipscomb made his World Cup debut in December 2002 at Whistler, and made his first podium later that season, with a bronze at Serre Chevalier. Crispin tells us about his experiences in the olympics, injuries and how they have been handled, and then we discuss skiing and sledding in the mountains with a snowmobile and how to make sure you don’t end up with a stranded machine. Crispin’s background 1:00A nasty accident 18:50Dreaming of success 23:55A shocking experience before the Olympic trials 29:40Coaching kids is a tough, tough job 37:10Discipline and structure 40:30Making sure you’re up to check 45:00Going up a slope with a machine to ski or sled down 52:35What he’s doing in Vernon these days 58:45What’s coming up next 75:25“You learn as you go through, they come, they go, time passes, you get fine, but the first time it happens it’s shocking and it’s connected to your self worth, and your dreams and efforts are interrupted. Your goals are—your whole world, the sky falls down. So that was a really important lesson in learning and how to manage those injuries, and learning how to work with the physios and the trainers, and sports psych to put it into proper context.” 19:33@crispinlipscomb...more1h 23minPlay
March 22, 2023Exploring the Physical Demands of Golf with Andrew Coltart | Staying Fit and Injury PreventionWe are absolutely delighted to have Andrew John Coltart on the podcast. He is a Scottish professional golfer and TV commentator. He had a successful amateur career and played in the 1991 Walker Cup, and as a professional he won twice on the European Tour, the 1998 Qatar Masters and the 2001 Great North Open, and played in the 1999 Ryder Cup. We talk about his golfing career and how he is able to make sure he’s in peak physical condition in order to keep his mind in the right place when playing well really matters. Starting out in golf 1:00Typical week for a traveling golfer 4:00How many tournaments Andrew plays in a year 9:45Has the standard of golf changed? 13:25A story about Tiger Woods 16:25Some injury problems 19:40Using Barefoot Science insoles 27:00The importance of balance 32:10“Fundamentally from week to week, you try to make sure that you’re in peak physical fitness and still in peak physical fitness on the Sunday so that your brain doesn’t fatigue, so that your concentration doesn’t fatigue, so that your body doesn’t start to shut down, and so that you don’t start to squander shots when really the checks and the prize money, things like that are on the line.” 7:01@andrewcoltart...more42minPlay
March 15, 2023Prolong Your Life with Erson Religioso | Utilizing Movement for Optimal HealthWe are delighted to welcome back a guest from earlier in the season, Erson Religioso, a physical therapist with whom we spoke about using the insoles of our sponsor. We talk about the differences between Manipulation and adjustment, which are the different methods that physical therapists and chiropractors use. We talk about running methods and the effect on the body someone’s running style can have, including keeping the feet underneath the body as one runs to avoid upper body pain, or other issues. “People who work out intensely once a day are less healthy overall than people who just move regularly throughout the day.” 29:15The difference between manipulation and adjustment 3:45The eclectic approach 8:40Treating runners 12:40Land underneath yourself 22:20Upper body issues, neck pain from feet 24:50Knee bouncing 30:20Muscle protects you 38:50Erson’s workout 42:00“The first amazing sitting study followed people who sat more than 40 hours a day. They followed them for over 30 years. It was a very longitudinal study. What they found is that people who sat for more than 4 hours a day tended to die 10 years earlier of any caused mortality. Then when you start to add the 4-2 hours on top of that, then they died also faster. That’s when several years ago they started saying sitting is the new smoking.” 28:30@modernmanualtherapyEdgeMobilitySystem link - promo code "Barefoot12" for 12% Off...more1h 2minPlay
March 08, 2023Surface Electromyography with David Lemke | Understanding Proper Function and Body MovementToday we have the privilege of meeting and talking with David Lemke, who we could describe as a wizard in body work. He’s a technical wizard using a method of technology called Surface Electromyography (SEMG), EEG, and various other things. Electromyography means muscles that are monitored and Surface means we’re monitoring from the surface and not putting needles in your body and all through your motions. It’s a listening device and they use wireless systems so you can move pretty much completely unimpaired while they monitor electrical activity in the muscles. They add in kinesiological surface EMG because it’s, in effect, a way of studying movement and they’re using that technology to study what’s happening in muscles during movement. Join us as we discuss David’s story and this treatment he does to improve athletes’ results. Consulting work 2:38Autistic children and the need for movement and play 10:00How David wants to be described 24:09Combining the best of the new with the old 29:45Functional Chain Trainer 34:41Taking an unbalanced motor system for a run and going backwards 48:00Helping the whole body work together properly 59:47“I had a knee injury and I found that going backwards down hills was actually pain free, whereas forward up hills was pain free, but if I went forward down a hill, it would be a lot of pain. I had an anterior meniscus tear, and so I had to train to recover from that injury by going backwards down the hills.” 51:16www.davelemke.us[email protected]...more1h 18minPlay
February 15, 2023Life Altering Treatment of Chiropractic Work with Catherine Quinn | Adjustments and Treatment for AthletesToday we are delighted to have our guest, Catherine Quinn, with us who is the President of the British Chiropractic Association, a very busy lady with her own chiropractic business. She helps with professional football clubs, she helps with Winter sports international competitors, and she was formerly a world champion in martial arts, so we dip into all these different areas. We talk about concussions and how these are treated/approached, using methods such as SCAT5 (Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 5) testing. Chiropractors in professional sports 2:01Mental health issues across healthcare providers 7:34Concussions 8:52How many football clubs have a chiropractor on their medical team 20:00World champion martial artist 22:48Catherine’s origins 27:05Winter sports 28:24Differences in athletes/sports 32:33How athletes go about finding a chiropractor 36:34What she’s doing these days to maintain herself 46:09“I managed to get a kick to the head, dropped my guard, didn’t do that again. I had a bit of a kind of whiplash style injury to my neck, jaw pain, neck pain, a little bit of arm pain, and a family friend recommended that I see a chiropractor. I went and just thought it was the coolest thing that I had ever seen in my life.” 25:28...more58minPlay
January 25, 2023Unlocking Athletic Potential: A Conversation with Coach Ian Hosek on Performance EngineeringIn this episode we have Ian Hosek, who comes from the mountains of Idaho. Ian went through engineering school, but realized he didn’t want to be a standard engineer, so he went and worked at Nike for a number of years, and then started up his own coaching business. While he was at Nike, he had the opportunity to work with some of the world’s leading physiologists, and then shortly after this he started coaching athletes and really fell in love with this line of work. So he now has his own coaching business and is definitely a performance endurance athletic coach. Performance engineering 1:00What drew Ian to Nike 8:08Most efficient movement for a runner 10:34Parkour 16:32Symmetry, left side right side movement 22:00Helping people calm down/rest 31:47What Ian’s working on now 41:06“The main thing people say is trying to get a nice balance of carbs and protein within 45 minutes of a workout session, and then like a meal within 3 hours. Doing those small things can really help, for one it can help with glycogen storage, and it also helps with muscle protein synthesis, and just getting you ready for the next session.” 24:56@ocr_hosekwww.hosekpe.com...more50minPlay
January 18, 2023Unlocking Your Running Potential with Coach Tyrone Edwards | Proven Techniques for SuccessToday we have a running specialist and Optimize Potential Training owner, Tyrone Edwards. He started this business to be able to give back to young athletes and help them to understand the processes of making it to the next level, whatever that was, and to help them run as fast as they can. He started focusing later on adults, and now he wants to teach all people what it’s like to run again and pain free. So many people lose that ability to run for a long time, and without pain, so Tyrone’s focus is to help them achieve that again. About Optimize Potential 1:45His background 3:00Noticing gaps in reaching potential 5:21Most common injuries 12:30Exercises to prescribe 14:50What it says if someone is failing at these exercises 18:46Single leg stance 20:53Using tools for extra work out help 33:16How one becomes faster and workouts to do 36:16Strength, speed, and height 51:17Goals for 2023 55:20“Messi and Ronaldo kicked the ball not just at their practices, at their training, but they kicked the ball when no one told them to kick a ball. They kept kicking that ball to ingrain it in their systems so they had a passion for it and they wanted to continue on with it.” 9:22www.optimizepotential.com@optimizepotentialtraining ...more1h 1minPlay
January 11, 2023Helping People Improve Themselves with Jeff Stapleton | Finding Mental Motivation to ExerciseWe have Jeff Stapleton back on our show today, who is a barefoot lifetime runner, lifetime sports coach with a fantastic background in fitness and training, and he has some more great stories to tell us. Jeff talks about running in the middle of winter wearing basically nothing but shorts and the various health benefits he has experienced from this. Exercise can be done by anyone, even people who don’t like it very much, and all you have to do is start with something simple and small and first build the habit. Once that habit is established, you’ll start to find it’s a lot easier to slowly raise the effort you’re giving to that exercise, or even other aspects of your life. Jeff and Katie discuss the importance of thinking positively and winning the mental game to be able to reach your potential. Experiencing frostbite and running in the cold 2:43Being exposed to E Coli 7:49Creating habit 19:48Thinking mentally positive thoughts 25:37Working with people that want to improve 32:13Setting up a program for people with specific needs 44:50Some basic exercises that anyone can do 48:25People have to make the decision 61:13“Just find a gymnasium or an exercise area where there’s equipment, there are people in there doin stuff, there’s classes going on and just walk in. Walk in, 5, 10 minutes…You just wanna get into that mode where you soak up the energy…You’re not doing anything physically, but mentally you’re conditioning yourself to say ‘Hey you know what? I could do that class, or part of that class, or I could go into that exercise area and take the kettle bells and lift 2 pounders.’” 20:52[email protected]naturalrunning.ca...more1h 9minPlay
FAQs about Born to be Barefoot | From Science to Life:How many episodes does Born to be Barefoot | From Science to Life have?The podcast currently has 58 episodes available.