If you've ever been curious about what you're supposed to be thinking about to brace during lifting, and what the difference between bracing and the valsalva maneuver is, this episode will clear that up for you. You'll also learn about intra-abdominal pressure (IAP), how it's created, the muscles involved, and why you don't want to think about "drawing in your belly button".

While injuries suck, they are often hidden learning opportunities. In this episode, you'll learn 4 of the big learning lessons injuries can bring, my favorite questions to audit your movement practice & identify gaps that might have contributed to your injury, and 2 ways people get stuck and miss learning opportunities during an injury.

For a long time, many people believed that if they lifted heavy, they would become more stiff and inflexible. In recent years, many of us have been sharing that this is not necessarily true and that flexibility and strength can co-exist. Yet, we still see people who are super strong that are also very inflexible. So what gives? In this episode, you'll here the 3 main reasons this can happen & what you can do to avoid it and instead ensure you become strong AND bendy.

Dealing with chronic ankle sprains can be super frustrating and keep you from doing things you enjoy like running or hiking out of fear of yet another injury. Unfortunately, it is common to have multiple additional sprains after an initial injury. In this episode, you'll learn some of the big gaps in most rehab for chronic ankle sprains & 4 things to make sure your training is including to get out of the chronic ankle sprain cycle.

Once you've gotten a taste of how good mobility work makes you feel, it's common to want MORE of it. And when you're active and enjoy the full spectrum of fitness, it can be hard to figure out how to schedule it all in. This is exactly what this episode is all about, thanks to a question submitted on a Q&A from IG.

This episode is dedicated to my fellow recovering perfectionists and high achievers. We're covering how this all-or-nothing mindset can keep us from showing up and practicing things in fitness, even if our performance is not quite meeting our expectations.

Mobility work tends to be a little more nuanced and specific than some of the other types of exercises. While you don't have to understand every detail behind the exercises, it can be helpful to understand a little more about them so you can get the most out of your efforts. In this episode you'll learn the 3 main things to understand about the exercises you're doing and how that can help you.

These are the 3 phases I have people go through when I work with them on their movement. It's a simple framework I use to select exercises and progressions based on the person's needs for their goals at that time. This episode is specifically focusing on applying it to exercises focused on building more control and awareness.

I am a big proponent of developing regular practices to check-in with our bodies. In fact, I work on it with most of my clients and have blogs and podcast episodes created all about checking in with and listening to your body. AND it is entirely possible to have a check-in practice that is too much or too often that it ends up stalling or derailing your efforts in rehab, keeping you in the pain cycle. In this episode, you'll learn: why checking in too often can be problematic, how checking in with your body too much contributes to the chronic pain cycle, and the beginning steps in finding more of a middle ground with this practice

Taking time away from an activity or movement can help you overcome a nagging pain initially, but most people I work with find that it doesn't help in the long term. As soon as they jump back into their workouts or activities again, they find themselves back at square one with the nagging pain or injury. In this episode you'll learn 3 of the big reasons this advice is keeping you from getting better.