If you're active to some degree, you've probably faced an injury at some point in your life. Whether you broke a bone, tore a muscle, or simply had a nagging pain that started for no known reason, physical pain has impacted you and your health journey to some degree. In this episode, I interviewed my back rehab coach, David Sluss (@goturbackcoaching, co-owner of Bear Republic CrossFit), to chat about our experiences with chronic back pain, the mistakes we made, and how we ultimately got the help we needed to live pain-free. Our experiences not only impacted us as individuals but also in how we coach our group classes and 1:1 clients. We also dive into the mindset around injury - Will you lose progress in your health and fitness journey if you take a break? How can you prevent injuries through warm up and training protocols? How is over-exercising and pushing yourself to the limit actually setting you back?

Resources referenced within the podcast episode:

Gift of Injury by Dr. Stuart McGill

Back Mechanic by Dr. Stuart McGill

More about Dr. Andrew Lock

More about Dr. Ryan Summers and ActiveLife

Healing Back Pain by John E. Sarno, MD

Get in touch with David

Instagram: @goturbackcoaching 

Email: [email protected]

When someone decides to set out on the path of improving their nutrition, they're often led towards dieting or calorie counting or macro tracking. Counting calories and macros has become one of the most popular routes for people to take when they're trying to embark on a health journey of any kind - whether it's weight loss or building muscle or just improving how they eat. The issue that I find with jumping into these methods as your first line of defense is focus on how much you're eating versus how you are eating. Our problem with food cannot simply be boiled down to the quantity in which we eat, which I find to be the primary conversation being had in this space. In today's episode, I'm going to dive into the behaviors that are impacting your relationship with food, and as a result, the choices you make when it comes to food. Then I'm going to give you action steps to take to improve your eating behaviors to better recognize and respond to your hunger and fullness cues.