We have our first guest on the podcast, Jennifer Way.

She gives us insight into her life, in regards to sports, training, eating, and her own personal battles with mental health.    .She explains from a females point of few what we find most women struggle with in regards to training, stress, and self image.  It's nice to have a females point of view on some of these principles other than just mine and jarrets.  

Jen shares how some of these principles that we teach at Deep Roots have changed the way she trains, the way she interacts with herself day to day, and how she feels about herself inside and outside of the gym.

Thank you Jen for sharing your point of few and your story with us.

All The love, Deep Roots Athletics.

An impromptu podcast about some recent events that have occurred in the fitness industry.  Im sure a lot of you out there have heard about the social media influencer "Liver King" and everything that he embodies.   
I wanted to use this as an example of how I believe the fitness industry is doing a massive disservice to everyone that is involved.  We have built a system that is based on only achieving goals and objectives rather than learning more about the individual and the human condition.  

When the measure becomes a target is ceases to be a good measure. 

In no way shape or form am I slandering liver king, this is purely my opinion and ultimately to each their own.   However after reflecting on many other events like this I found myself trying understand how an individual could get to this place, and how this affects and has affected peoples perception of not just fitness but themselves.  

There is no good VS bad, its just function, the world is function, our perceptions permeate what we think is good and bad.

-Coach Jono 

Jarrett and I discuss a more complex topic around training and behaviour.  
We get into the difference between mindset and behaviour, how mindset cant directly impact change  to your environment in the way you think it does.  

We go into one of the main Strongfit principles called the phylogenetic hierarchy, the flow, fight, flight, and freeze and how these states impact your behaviour but also directly relate to your training as well. 

We also give some insight into some our clients experiences with the training we do and how their anxiety is impacted by training and what it means for them.  

It's a long one, but it's a good one, for everyone trying to understand themselves and how training can impact their lives outside of the gym. 

All the love, Deep Roots Athletics 

This episode gets a little more complicated, Jarrett and I discuss the function of the nervous system and its basic functions.  This is important to know because this is the powerhouse of the body, without the nervous system life for humans may not even exist.

We discuss the importance of the autonomic nervous system and the main focus of the sympathetic and parasympathetic side.  We are simply just setting up the ground work for further discussions around training and life because we believe the foundation of so much of our existence is tied within the nervous system. 

We also touch on the task positive and task negative brain networks, what they are, how they came to be, and the relevance and importance of your sense of self and how it impacts your training.  

Its a deep one, but crucial for understanding what comes next.  

All the love, Deeproots Athletics 

We start off by talking about a very key principle that is often over looked not just in fitness but in life.  Functional integration versus functional segregation, and its common effect on people decision making process.  We touch a little about how we see fitness, we talk pros and cons of the fitness industry.  We outline the positives and negatives of social media, the lack of depth of knowledge in the industry, passive fixes I.e. medications, steroids, caffeine, pre workout and how we can do all do better as coaches.  We also go into depth about much much more, this is was a long one but a great one ! 

If you notice some weird glitches in the audio, we had to do some editing through some stuff and take a few things out, this podcast ran us almost an 1 and 45 mins but chopped it down to an 1 and 15. hope you enjoy !

Just for a quick recap. 

Functional integration is a concept that basically states; when you’re looking at a system, that the system is comprised of many moving parts and that they are all integral to one another, and without them working in conjunction the system starts to fall apart.

Functional segregation states; that you can decompose a system to its individual parts and that the individual part/s will still function the same way as it does outside the system as it does inside.  It believes that the system, is just a bunch of separate moving pieces and that you can take them out of the system and they will still behave in the same manner