TFC Audio Project

On this episode of Health Conversations, Nick's guest is Jay Nera. Jay is a powerlifter who at one point in his career was the strongest human in his weight class. He's also a gym owner, health advocate, and just an overall wealth of information when it comes to athletic performance and philosophy. He's got a deep understanding of the mind and shares a very similar mindset with Nick when it comes to questioning the status quo in the perpetual search for the truth within different topics. 

On this episode of #shoptalk, Mike and Nick talk about behaviour change and building good habits. As health professionals, their biggest role in helping people restore optimal health is having people understand the bad habits to break that contribute to their issues, as well as how to create sustainable healthy habits to achieve long term improvements. They talk about some behaviour theories from psychology and compare short term & long term consequences of certain behaviours and review the fact that it's more about creating good systems than about simply creating good goals.

In this episode of Health Conversations, Jeff Shub is back for another round and we talk about mental health, nutrition, and TFC's new Foot Nerd Program. Jeff talks about what it's been like for him as one of the first twenty-five Foot Nerds admitted to the program in February 2019. 

On this episode of #shoptalk, Mike and Nick talk about back pain. They distinguish between acute and chronic back pain and get into the prevalence of back pain. They go through the major causes of why it’s such a big problem, as well as some simple solutions to protect yourself against it. Happy May!

On this episode of Health Conversations, Nick speaks with Kris Desjardins. Kris is a physiotherapist who attended TFC's recent seminar in Toronto and had a really interesting discovery when it came to the movement world and her integration of pilates into her practice. 

On this episode of #shoptalk, Mike and Nick talk about getting back into running. Living in Canada, many people will take a break from outdoor running during the winter months so now as we approach spring, many will be looking to get outside and start training more regular kilometers. They review a few elements they feel could really help their patients get back into running, and talk about the opportunity to improve your skill of running, with the goal being to develop a sustainable running practice & prevent common injuries. 

In this episode of Health Conversations, Nick talks with Tom Broback and Brad Baker, two physiotherapists from Minnesota who helped TFC organize their seminar in Minneapolis. They talk about the silly things they used to do in training and talk about physio school, how rehab has an amazing opportunity to shift and teach health instead of managing disease, and strategies to take back physical education in grade school. They get into movement screening along with a few other topics that the conversation lead to.

In the first episode of #SHOEtalk, Nick's guest is Braxton Garma, better known as the man behind KōNEA Footwear (@wayofkonea). Nick got to visit his workshop during his trip to Kauai where they had a great conversation about the vision for TFC Footwear and what they're setting out to accomplish. They talk bout the problems that they see in the current footwear industry, how footwear can be improved, and they go a bit in depth into how they plan to lead the charge with the FC1, launching at the start of 2020 with a crowd funding campaign. 

On this episode of #shoptalk, Mike and Nick cover the five pillars of health and do a recap of their recent trip to Costa Rica where they taught on their retreat. They go through what they feel are the five most important elements of health and how the retreat let them tap into each one of them in a way that modern society tends to neglect. 

Nick's guest this week is Alex Herrera. Alex is one of the team members with TribeWire Nosara (@tribewirenosara), which is the team of people that helped organize the retreat that Nick and Mike recently taught on in Costa Rica. Alex taught the play portion of the retreat, as his specialty is play and movement. They have an awesome conversation that includes the value of sweat lodges, and how it can be used as a tool for physical & mental health and to even build communities.