Nucleus Strength

Balance is a foundation of physical health as it combines all of our faculties into a synchronous activity.  While frequently overlooked, the ability to gain balance in our lives leads to long term health and well being.  Not only by helping to not fall, but by also increasing self confidence and appropriate reactions across varying situations.  While it many not look like much, exercise requiring balance are essential in recruiting a deep mind/body connection and fostering a sense of calm and stability.  During the exercises you may feel that you are slightly shaking or unstable but -as long as you keep going- you will find that, with practice, the shaking lessens (though it never abates completely -balance does not mean stone statue- it means responding appropriately to a situation) and the ability to do more over time increases steadily.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

First Workout! Not be confused with “stop listening to your body”. Please think first of how you feel, then move with awareness and sensitivity.

We combine everything into a synchronous flowing pattern. I encourage you to be familiar with the concepts introduced in prior episodes before diving into this session. If you have trained with me for a while, this episode may feel like more familiar territory in terms of pace, sequencing, and endurance.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Being articulate with your movements requires specificity and practice.  It can be challenging at first to try to move some parts of your torso without those same movements transitioning unintentionally to other areas of your body.  Focusing on starting with your head and neck we explore movements that encourage a thoughtful approach to how to move your torso and breathe.  By Moving in many different patterns as an exercise we gain tremendous torso strength and elan.  This practice is an essential genesis for future core support and control.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Building on the foundations of the prior episodes we gently apply more complexity, intensity, and endurance.  Utilizing many different movements from Pilates and other core based modalities we explore how to move while focusing primarily on how you feel during these movements.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Encouraging all listeners to successfully perform the exact same movements in the exact same way is not sound ethical programming.  Our innate differences mean that we need movements that speaks to our specific individual needs.  That is why it is essential to ask yourself “How do you feel?” and not “How do other people look?”.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you through step-by-step instructions to help you Move Better, Feel Stronger, and Gain Focus. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time hands on training experience Eric frees you to experience a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Episode 9: Unite! We tie all of the Breathing patterns and starting positions from the past 8 episodes together into a series.  By exploring how stress free starting positions and breathing can help move and support the entire body we deepen those efficient innate patterns that support the freedom of daily life.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

In this episode we take time to identify how laying on the front of your body should/could feel and discuss why this acknowledgement is important.

I get it: not needing any equipment or props in order to exercise is often thought to be the most essential/beginner level.  Just you and the floor.  It's very poetic.  However the floor is a flat, unforgiving, and unyielding surface and we as people come in all different shapes, configurations, capacities, and abilities.  Given that the floor is an unrelenting partner, should we expect ourselves to not use anything else but the ground?  Is that a sound expectation?  It is not about "warrior-ing up" or "just get used to it".  In terms of health and well being finding an initial place of non-tension and ease is the most essential aspect of creating sustainable longevity.  If you start in tension/stress it is difficult to move away from that mindset.  If you don't identify what starting from a place of tension feels like compared to what is tension free it will be difficult to create a long term healthy movement practice.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you through step-by-step instructions to help you Move Better, Feel Stronger, and Gain Focus. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time hands on training experience Eric frees you to experience a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

In this episode we take time to identify how laying on your side should/could feel and discuss why this acknowledgement is important.

I get it: not needing any equipment or props in order to exercise is often thought to be the most essential/beginner level.  Just you and the floor.  It's very poetic.  However the floor is a flat, unforgiving, and unyielding surface and we as people come in all different shapes, configurations, capacities, and abilities.  Given that the floor is an unrelenting partner, should we expect ourselves to not use anything else but the ground?  Is that a sound expectation?  It is not about "warrior-ing up" or "just get used to it".  In terms of health and well being finding an initial place of non-tension and ease is the most essential aspect of creating sustainable longevity.  If you start in tension/stress it is difficult to move away from that mindset.  If you don't identify what starting from a place of tension feels like compared to what is tension free it will be difficult to create a long term healthy movement practice.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you through step-by-step instructions to help you Move Better, Feel Stronger, and Gain Focus. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time hands on training experience Eric frees you to experience a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

In this episode we take time to identify how laying on your back should/could feel and discuss why this acknowledgement is important.

I get it: not needing any equipment or props in order to exercise is often thought to be the most essential/beginner level.  Just you and the floor.  It's very poetic.  However the floor is a flat, unforgiving, and unyielding surface and we as people come in all different shapes, configurations, capacities, and abilities.  Given that the floor is an unrelenting partner, should we expect ourselves to not use anything else but the ground?  Is that a sound expectation?  It is not about "warrior-ing up" or "just get used to it".  In terms of health and well being finding an initial place of non-tension and ease is the most essential aspect of creating sustainable longevity.  If you start in tension/stress it is difficult to move away from that mindset.  If you don't identify what starting from a place of tension feels like compared to what is tension free it will be difficult to create a long term healthy movement practice.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

In this episode we unite all of the Breathing patterns from the past 5 episodes together into a series.  By exploring how breathing can help move the body we deepen those efficient innate patterns that support daily movement.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you through step-by-step instructions to help you Move Better, Feel Stronger, and Gain Focus. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time hands on training experience Eric frees you to experience a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.