Moving Well Podcast

In this episode, Janet and Nikki talk with personal trainer and Ayurvedic practitioner Andrea Claassen about how to use Ayureveda to enhance health and fitness.  

They cover: 

• What Ayureveda is and how it’s more than just a physical yoga practice
• The three types doshas
• How to identify your personal dosha(s) and how to know if your dosha is in balance
• Simple ways to apply Ayurvedic principles to your life, even if you’re new to it (e.g. determining how to time meals, when to go to bed, ect)
• How to use Ayurveda to practice mindfulness and to listen to your body
• How to adjust Ayurvedic concepts to meet you where you’re at if the recommendations are overwhelming or don’t feel achievable

Links mentioned: 

• Quiz from Eat Feel Fresh to identify your dosha for your mind and body
• Listen to the Peaceful Power Podcast

About Andrea:

Andrea Claassen is a certified personal trainer, 200 hour registered yoga instructor and mindset shifter.  Her mission is to help women learn to lift heavy, incorporate yoga, and find their favorite form of movement. She does this by teaching her Peaceful Power Practices centered around fitness, yoga and Ayurveda.

Andrea believes training is so much more than working out it truly is about helping you evolve your identity. To connect with Andrea, visit her website safiretraining.com or say hello on Instagram. 

In this episode, Nikki and Janet chat with host of the Fitness Candor Podcast and personal trainer Eric Feigl about how to get the most out of your strength training without having to live in the gym.

They discuss:

• What a full body workout looks like and how that might differ between a 30 minute and 1 hour workout
• Why a longer workout isn't always a more effective workout
• How to find time for strength training even when you're really busy
• The role of recovery in building strength and seeing results
• If you need traditional cardio as part of a well rounded program
• Other considerations for programming when working with an athlete, such as sport specific programming

Links Mentioned:

Nikki's interview with Eric on the Fitness Candor Podcast

Click here to get your FREE full body workout + cheat sheet to better mobility and less pain.

About Eric Feigl

Eric Feigl is the owner of Eric Feigl Personal Training located in Cincinnati, OH.  Eric has helped individuals of all physical levels from NCAA athletes to the weekend warrior achieve their specific training goals. Backed by Mission 5 Fitness, Cincinnati's most knowledgeable, professional and respected training facility, Eric has established himself as a go-to fitness professional.

Feigl, Kentucky and Ohio President of the American Society of Exercise Physiologists (OHASEP 2013-present), received his Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Kinesiology with a concentration in Exercise Science at Eastern Illinois University. Eric was involved with the Assessment Testing and Prescription Lab and a Graduate Assistant with EIU's athletic department and has been personal training since graduating in 2007.

Although well-versed in a spectrum of knowledge, Eric specializes in applied kinesiology and exercise science as they relate to exercise program design and injury prevention; strength development, fat loss, and physical enhancement/performance. He is also published on Cyberpump.com and hosts the podcast Fitness Candor.

To connect with Eric, say hello on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or send him an email at [email protected].

In this episode, Nikki and Janet chat with personal trainer and virtual coach Kourtney Thomas about the benefits, science and mindset of hypertrophy training and her program The Bigness Project.

They cover:

• What hypertrophy training is and why it’s not just for bros
• The difference in mindset when training to get “big” versus training to get smaller
• The science and application of hypertrophy training
• How long it takes to see a physical difference and beginner “gains”
• The role of rest and recovery in growing bigger muscles
• How hypertrophy training can fit into a fitness program if you also want to train for an endurance sport or work on strength and cardiovascular fitness
• Body image, the culture of smallness for women and how the message is changing
• Myths and misconceptions behind body building (e.g. it’s not functional or it will get your injured)

About Kourtney Thomas, CSCS

B.A. Hospitality Business, Michigan State University

ACSM Certified Personal Trainer, NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, RRCA Certified Running Coach, Owner, Kourtney Thomas Fitness

A former avoider of gym class, Kourtney stumbled her way into the fitness world via TV infomercials and never looked back. Within a couple of years, she’d made the career transition from desk to gym.

With that decision, Kourtney completed her personal training certification through ACSM, followed that up with her running coaching certification through the RRCA, and then became a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA. Kourtney also holds certifications in Concurrent Hybrid Performance Coaching, Spinning, TRX, and ViPR Training. Her business, Kourtney Thomas Fitness, focuses on empowering people to not only master movement, but mindset and choices, too, in order to build a big, beautiful life.

Her passion for endurance running (Kourtney has completed numerous 5k and 10k races, many half marathons, and four marathons to date) evolved into strength training and eventually bodybuilding, and Kourtney believes that there is a style of movement that will ignite a fire in anyone.

When she’s not at the gym doing some variation of biceps curls (seriously, it’s a lot of the time), Kourtney rides her Harley-Davidson Softail Deluxe anytime the weather is above 50 degrees, travels to national parks, stays up too late reading copious amounts of science fiction and fantasy, and bake elaborates cakes and cookies. Her motto is “Big Arms, Big Life,” and she lives that daily alongside her husband, Marty, miniature dachshund Boudreaux, and orange tabby cat, Brewer, outside of Colorado Springs, CO.

To connect with Kourtney, visit her site kourtneythomas.com or say hello on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

In this episode, Janet and Nikki chat with Pilates teacher and Movement Coach James Crader about how the core is more than just the "abs" and how to use this idea for whole body movement.

They cover:

• Why you might want to rethink how you use common fitness cues like brace and squeeze (and when you should use those words)
• The difference between finding your core through the action of squeezing and engaging it through dynamic movement
• How core became a fitness buzzword and why it's more than just training the abdominals
• Finding a balance between abdominal exercises like planks and crunches and building awareness around the abs through movement exploration
• The role of muscle timing and the nervous system in efficient movement
• The potential issues with living + training in a posterior pelvic tilt and the potential correlation with intestinal distress
• Tips for creating more exploration and ease in your movement and Pilates practice

About James Crader: 

James is a Movement Coach specializing in Pilates and John F. Barnes Myofascial Release Therapy, a CoreAlign Faculty Member, co-host of the Thinking Pilates Podcast, and owner of Evolved Body Studio in Sacramento, CA.

Growing up he never thought anything fitness would be his calling. He was nerdy, enjoyed listening to and telling stories, and loved to experiment, create, and play with the shapes he could make while rolling around on the floor. He and his sister even practiced writing with their toes (just in case). All that made for a really weird kid, but an innovative movement educator. James began his Pilates training with Balanced Body, but has gone on to study with numerous teachers from many lineages of Pilates and beyond. James has contributed to movement and lifestyle conversations on podcasts, diverse blogs, Pilates Style magazine, the documentary A Movement of Movement, and now Pilates Anytime.

You can find out more about James and EB Studio at www.EvolvedBodyStudio.com, or follow his movement musings through Project Movement University (project_Move.U.) on Facebook and Instagram. 

In this episode, Janet and Nikki chat with strength and conditioning coach Charlie Reid about how to create a movement practice to match your fitness goals and why this can be difficult to do.

They cover:

• Training to get tired versus training to get better
• Why focusing on only one thing at a time (e.g. improving strength or increasing cardiovascular endurance) can get you better results
• The difference between training to improve a skill and training to maintain a skill
• Why everyone needs a baseline of fitness before working towards performance
• How to fill in the gap between where our training models have come from (athletic training + body building) and where most people are when they start a fitness program
• The psychological aspects of why we're attracted to certain fitness modalities and how that relates to our goals

Intro to Resistance Stretching-LIVE Course

Sunday, July 23rd 2017 in San Francisco, Ca

Pricing:

• $235 early registration (includes complete digital course) before July 1st
• $175 early regsitration (live course only) before July 1st
• $285 late registration w/digital course starting July 1st
• $225 later registration w/o digital course starting July 1st

Registration Link: http://www.charliereidfitness.com/eventsworkshops.html

Jules Mitchell and Charlie Reid offer this introductory course to resistance stretching designed for yoga teachers and other movement professionals interested in adding assisted stretching techniques to their repertoire. Get plenty of hands-on practical training, enabling you to apply these methods immediately after the course.

Additionally, Jules and Charlie troubleshoot mobility issues as they arise, providing you with insight into their talent for assessment and protocol selection. Course includes manual with instructions and photos for each exercise, a 1-hour lecture accompanied by a slideshow investigating the biomechanical and neuromechanical theory behind resistance stretching, a detailed tutorial on the art of compassionate touch and safe body mechanics, and tons of fun.

About Charlie Reid:

Charlie Reid, CSCS, CMT, is a Movement Educator, Coach, and Massage therapist based in San Francisco, CA. His mission is to help cultivate stronger, more resilient humans. When he's not coaching one-on-one, teaching workshops, or hosting seminars in the Bay Area, he is most likely drinking too much espresso whilst torturing a bass guitar. 

To learn more about Charlie, you can visit his website charliereidfitness.com or connect with him on Facebook or Instagram. 

In this episode, Janet and Nikki chat with LA based yoga teacher and movement educator Trina Altman about why people get hurt doing yoga and her new online course Yoga Deconstructed™

They cover: 

• Common causes of pain and injury in yoga
• The movements that are missing in yoga that can contribute to muscle imbalances and pain
• Why stretching isn't always the answer
• How people who are both too stiff or too mobile can benefit from adding strength and stability training to their routine
• How breaking down a pose into smaller movements can reduce the risk of injury and increase the longevity in your yoga practice
• Why Trina created Yoga Deconstructed ™ and how the exercises she teaches can be used to balance out a regular yoga practice

Links Mentioned:

Yoga Deconstructed™ Online Course

About Trina Altman:

Trina leads teacher trainings in Yoga Tune Up®, the Roll Model® Method and Rx Series for Equinox locally and internationally. She is the creator of Yoga Deconstructed™ an innovative interdisciplinary approach that fosters an embodied understanding of Yoga and its relationship to modern movement science.

While at Brown University, Trina took a Kripalu yoga class which ignited her passion for the practice. Emphasizing the importance of inner focus, she teaches anatomy for yoga teacher trainings across the country. She has presented at Kripalu, PURE YOGA® NYC, Cal-a-Vie Spa, SYTAR, the Yoga Alliance Leadership Conference, ECA, UCLA and multiple yoga conferences.

Her teaching fosters body cognition and self-discovery, firmly grounded in anatomical awareness. Trina builds bridges between the mystical and the pragmatic, and specializes in helping others to access their body’s tissues and their heart’s purpose. Trina works out of Los Angeles at Equinox and The Moving Joint. Find her at www.trinaaltman.com or say hello on Facebook or Instagram.

In this episode, Janet and Nikki chat with Pilates teacher and mentor Chantill Lopez about how to help our students find greater autonomy and take ownership for the work that they do with us.

They discuss:

• The paradigm shift of moving from the "fixing" mentality to one of exploration and discovery
• How asking deeper questions can help us find intrinsic motivation beyond the boilerplate reasons why a lot of people come to Pilates and how these questions can better help us meet our or our students needs
• How to help our students set goals and take ownership for their choices and experiences
• The different stages of competency and teaching strategies to increase competency
• Top down versus bottom up processing

Links Mentioned:

Skillful Teaching Mentorship Program

About Chantill Lopez

"Be real. Don't fake it. Be able to say I don't know. Laugh at myself. Extend compassion to myself and my students. Enter in fully, every time, ready or not."

After more than 20 years of teaching, 15 of which have been spent teaching Pilates, yoga, dance, meditation and other movement modalities to a complex variety of folks, Chantill Lopez is proud to be a teacher of teachers. Building relationships with teachers who want to be unabashedly amazing at what they do — teachers who want to move beyond the clockwork pieces of technique and blow the top off their potential – is what excites her most about her work and keeps her inspired, creating continuing education and working with teachers world-wide.

She holds Pilates certifications from the PhysicalMind Institute and Body Kinetics with Master Teacher Carol Appel, is certified in Yamuna Body Rolling and Vinyasa yoga, and has extensively studied the work of Philip Beach, Feldenkrais, the Franklin Method, Authentic Movement, and the Halprin Life/Art Process, as well as Vipasana meditation, Buddhist psychology and The Work by Byran Katie. Chantill is a Pilates Method Alliance Certified Pilates Teacher (CPT) and CYT.

She is the founder of Skillful Teaching - an international live and online educational company for Pilates and yoga teachers and is the author of "Moving Beyond Technique: How To Nurture Your Passion, Master Your Craft, and Create a Thriving Pilates Business."

You can learn more about her at skillfulteaching.com/about or say hello on Facebook. 

In this episode, Nikki and Janet chat with Pilates expert and educator, Jenna Zaffino about her experiences and how to address anxiety and burnout as a Pilates teacher or fitness professional.

They discuss:

• Constructive strategies to handle teaching burnout and anxiety
• The role of mindset in how we feel about ourselves, our actions and our teaching
• How anxiety is more common than we realize and not feeling alone in it can make a difference
• The different motivations for sharing work online and in social media
• How we can harness positivity in an authentic way
• Ways to incorporate a meditation practice into your day
• Why everything counts

Self-care experts and mindset resources + links mentioned:

• Five Minute Journal
• One Bad Mother Podcast
• Rob Bell Podcast
• Gabrielle Bernstein
• Headspace Meditation App
• Jenna's new project #PilatesProblems

About Jenna Zaffino:

Jenna Zaffino is a Pilates expert who's star is rising to the top of the industry.  She has been teaching for 16 yrs, owned her successful studio, Helios 3.0 in Chicago for 10 and is the author of the celebrated Pilates children's book, Horatio Moves! 

Jenna is the producer, writer and host of the wildly popular podcast, Pilates Unfiltered.  She is also the creator of multiple online support courses that help movement teachers find their purpose and remember their passion.

Jenna received comprehensive Pilates teacher training through both Movement Education LLC and The Ron Fletcher Program of Study, respectively.  As a professional educator, she has served as a faculty member for Fletcher Pilates Intl for a decade, presenting courses and professional teacher training for the company internationally.  She is also an Arcus Educator and course contributor through McEntire Pilates. 

Jenna recently became a certified meditation teacher, expanding her offerings to include an integrated and mindful approach to movement. Jenna's passion for supporting movement professionals is realized through providing professional mentorship as well as life coaching.  She is a facilitator for Gabrielle Bernstein's May Cause Miracle's 40 Day Program and will complete her education in NLP in 2017.

To learn more about Jenna, you can visit her site jennazaffino.com or say hello on Facebook or Instagram. 

In this episode, Janet and Nikki chat with Anula Maiberg, Pilates teacher and co-owner of Sixth Street Pilates in NYC about body image and Pilates culture.

They discuss: 

• Why showing diverse body types performing Pilates is important
• Possible reasons why Pilates isn't easily defined by the general public and fitness community 
• What we can do as Pilates instructors to help define Pilates culture in and out of the studio
• The impact of marketing on Pilates culture and how to appeal to younger generations
• How we can make the studio a more welcoming place where people feel empowered to move and not self-critical of how they move
• How to handle criticism when putting yourself out there

About Anula

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. - Isadora Duncan

Pilates is about finding success in movement its not about making ideal shapes. That's my approach to teaching. I try to bring that across by finding joy in the practice and not taking it all too seriously.

I have a major leggings obsession and now that American Apparel is out of business I am not totally sure what I'm going to do with my life.

In my studio we like to have a little background music playing. Currently its the XX all day every day. They are just mellow enough to not be distracting but still really beautiful.

I go to the ballet more times than my budget will allow... the perks of living in NYC and I take full advantage of it. Romeo and Juliet makes me cry every time.

Favorite TV show of all time: Twin Peaks or My So Called Life

Favorite Movie: Gone With the Wind or St. Elmo's Fire

In this episode, Janet and Nikki talk with Medical Exercise Specialist Brian Richey about how to work with a client with knee pain.

They cover:

• Common causes of knee pain and how to know when to refer out
• Exercise protocols and contraindications for arthritis, ACL tears, patellofemoral syndrome meniscal tears and general knee pain
• How to use a foam roller to address knee pain
• Corrective exercises to decrease knee discomfort and improve alignment
• What muscle groups to target when you have knee pain
• The background on the study that found surgery wasn't effective for addressing pain from meniscal tears
• Exercise recommendations for knee health

About Brian Richey

Brian, the owner/operator of Fit 4 Life DC, was born in Kailua, Hawai‘i, and graduated from the University of Hawai‘i with a B.S. in Exercise Science/Kinesiology.

While Brian is a personal trainer, he isn’t your typical one. Brian is a Medical Exercise Specialist and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, meaning that his level of understanding and working with and managing medical conditions with exercise is far beyond that of your typical trainer.

“My goal is to bridge the gap between the medicine and movement.”

While Brian might have been born in paradise, his childhood wasn’t all fun in the sun. He was an obese child, tipping the scales at over 420lbs by his 18 th birthday. His journey of weight loss ultimately led him to pursuit a career in personal training and help people not only in losing weight but also regaining and improving their quality of life.

To connect with Brian, you can visit his website fit4lifeDC.com, follow him on Facebook or send him an email at [email protected].