The Mind Your Body Show

In the third of this 4-part series on Men's Health for Movember 2017, I spoke with Livin' ambassador, Alistair Mitchell. Alistair's family have long owned caravan parks and resorts across the country and he has just sold his park here in Darwin, the FreeSpirit Resort. Honestly, the food in that place is remarkable! Alistair grew up in country Victoria and lived a typical country life playing footy, smoking cigarettes and hanging out at the pub with his mates. When a series of challenging circumstances fell upon him in very short succession, he fell into a habit of very expensive drug addiction, which led to his suicide attempt driving off a bridge. Believe in fate or not, as he was driving to his death, his phone rang. Unable to turn the bluetooth off, he answered the call. It was his wife asking where he was and if he was okay after an argument they had. Thankfully, Alistair is still with us today and is helping to normalise the conversation around mental illness by sharing his story.

In this episode you'll learn:

- What Livin' as a foundation is and does

- The idea behind the Walk 'n' Talk meetings that Alistair holds

- Alistair's battle with depression and anxiety

- His attempts to self-medicate and how that led to a very dark place

- The story behind and of his suicide attempt

- Why everyone should have a life coach

- How telling his story on social media helped him

- His very effective analogy of the windshield versus the rearview mirror

- The weight of expectation living with an autistic child

- Why his $10,000/month cocaine addiction wasn't something worse

- Why Alistair now keeps full bottles of alcohol in his office

- How to best assist someone in a crisis

- What mental health first aid is

- How food effects your emotions

- Alistair's morning shower mindfulness practice

- How to use fear as a motivator

- Plus, why mental illness seems to be more prevalent today.

For more information, go to www.JacobAndreae.com

You already have one. Would you believe me if I said that? Everyone has a 6 pack. Just for some people it’s visible and for others it’s not. In fact, some of the people I train who are heavily overweight have bigger 6 pack muscles than people who are lean and skinny.

In this episode you'll learn:

- The muscles of the abdominals

- The function of each of the abdominal muscles

- How you get that "pack" look

- The reason why your abs have those lumps that make up the 6-pack

- How many lumps you really have

- Why some people have a 10-pack and others don't

- The best exercises for your abs

- Plus, why traditional ab exercises are not the best exercises for your abdominals.

This episode is the podcast version of this week's blog. To read more, go to: www.JacobAndreae.com

In the second of this 4 part series on Men's Health for Movember 2017, I chatted with mental health advocate, Jackson Clark. I taught Jackson in grade 8 and 9 and have watched his career in sports journalism flourish from his first writings back in those days as a fourteen year old kid. When Jackson used the laws of attraction to manifest his own show on Mix 104.9, he asked me to come on board as a regular guest broadcaster, talking about fitness, nutrition and psychology. Off the back of his massive social media following, that show, Balls 'n' All, has become one of the most well-known and comprehensive sporting talk shows on Darwin radio.

In this episode you'll learn:

- What Jackson did to get his career started as a 14 year old kid

- How he got himself his own radio show

- Jackson's understanding of what the laws of attraction are and how he's used them to achieve his goals

- The books that Jackson suggests you should read

- How being overconfident in sport is a good thing

- How meditation can help you in all facets of life and why it should be scheduled into your day

- What it's like being a Livin' ambassador

- How mental health issues show up in primary school aged children

- Ideas for how to deal with mental health concerns

- What it was like playing 8 games of football in 8 different States/Territories almost back-to-back each week

- Plus, how to improve your mental health even when it's already positive.

For more information, check out www.JacobAndreae.com

Movember started as a concept developed by Adam Garone, his brother Trav, and Luke Slattery fourteen years ago. It was founded out of a conversation to have men grow real moustaches and have real conversations about what’s going on in their life.

In this episode you'll discover what my motivations are for doing Movember 2017.

If you want someone to talk to, or as I mention in the episode, to practice opening those lines of communication, I'm here to chat. Email me at [email protected] and I'll call you back to chat.

If you want to speak to someone with professional training, here are some organisations with numbers to call and websites to visit to find out more information:

Beyondblue: 1300 22 4636 https://www.beyondblue.org.au

Lifeline: 12 11 14 https://www.lifeline.org.au

Head to Health: https://headtohealth.gov.au

This is my 10 minute BlogCast. Every Monday, I'll release a 10 minute or less podcast talking about my blog for the week. You can find the written blog at www.JacobAndreae.com

Jacob Brady-Walker is an award-winning chiropractor who has helped literally thousands of clients improve their lives. Having sold his own clinic in Darwin to move home to Ballarat, Jacob has revived and created multiple clinics for others. I met Jacob in my Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner course and was immediately drawn to his gentle nature, holistic attitude to health and deep knowledge about the human body.

In this episode you'll learn:

- How to care for your back as a middle aged man

- Why it's so important to address the little things

- The difference between men and women when it comes to seeking help

- The benefits of twisting your spine

- Where the relationship between back pain and money comes from

- How stress effects your neck and back pain

- If you're doing too much movement

- How chiropractic is more about the nervous system than the skeletal system

- How the signals sent through your body work properly

- The power of a 10c piece

- Plus, why it's so important to get checked out by a good chiropractor on a regular basis.

www.JacobAndreae.com

“Oh, Rebecca watched my Instagram story! But hey, she didn’t watch them all. Why not?” :-( LOL This is the self-talk that is all too common in today’s world. It might sound funny and we can all probably admit to being a little disappointed when someone sees our message but didn’t reply, or didn’t like our photo, or watch all our videos. But what effect does social media really have on our health?

In this episode you'll learn:

- How comparing your reality to someone else's highlight reel is just plain unhealthy

- How this leads to a greater quantity and more intense levels of negative emotions

- How social media can lead to higher levels of sedentary living

- How social media might lead to increased back and neck pain

- Plus, why it is actually good for your health!

This is my 10 minute BlogCast. Every Monday, I'll release a 10 minute or less podcast talking about my blog for the week. You can find the written blog at www.JacobAndreae.com

Bryce is an Australian Health Practitioner that has advised and treated players that have competed on the National & International stage in Golf, Swimming and Athletics amongst others. In addition to this he was an early adopter in using smart technology to assist his patients both in the creation of self management apps to his advisory role at Smart Technology company IKKOS. If you cannot find him via his LinkedIn profile he is likely running long distances whilst wearing next to nothing or tucking into his favourite soup (you will win him over with a Pho).

In this episode you'll learn:

- About Bryce's experience running marathons, particularly the Boston marathon

- What it's like living in Seattle, USA

​- The power of smart technology and the Internet

- How Bryce saved $30,000 in one year (and why)

- About the golf training institute

- What IKKOS is

- The power of virtual reality and how to use it effectively

- What the hell binary beats are

- How to learn a new movement quickly and effectively

- The power of vision

- The capacities of the IKKOS app

- All about smart technology

- Plus, why cooling down is so important.

Keep the Conversation Going with Bryce

Website: https://ikkos.com/

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryce-finck-89560440/

Phone: +1(646)6786304

www.JacobAndreae.com

The order that you either eat or exercise is a common question that many people have. That question often leads to many other points of confusion around the topic of eating in relation to exercise. How long should I wait to exercise after eating? What foods are best to eat before and after exercise? Here’s some clarity around the topic.

In this episode you'll learn:

- The major factors in what to eat before exercise

- The time it takes for food to be digested and absorbed into the bloodstream

- What happens to your blood when you exercise

- The types of foods to avoid before exercise

- The best foods to eat before exercise

- How to best fit eating and exercise into your day

- What to do if you haven't eaten all day

- Plus, what to consider for eating after exercise.

This is my 10 minute BlogCast. Every Monday, I'll release a 10 minute or less podcast talking about my blog for the week. You can find the written blog at www.JacobAndreae.com

Catie Kirke is a life coach and founder of the highly acclaimed ART Your Life and Miss ART programs. The ART Your Life program is a comprehensive coaching and training 7-week intensive program for women designed to help create change from the inside out. Catie previously ran a successful fitness business for 10 years, in which time she was a recipient of the NT Telstra Business Women’s Award and NT Fitness Leader of the Year Award. She now spends her time between Melbourne and Darwin facilitating corporate training events and is in demand as a keynote speaker.

In this episode you'll learn:

- ​Catie's experience growing in up Alice Springs

- The ingredients of an IV drip

- How we look for examples to support our beliefs

- Cognitive dissonance

- The 2 most powerful words in the English dictionary

- The ITEACH profile

- What Extended DISC is

- Catie's experience in one aerobics class that led to the idea for her

- ART Your Life program

- All about ART Your Life

- Creating online programs

- The 3 greatest fears we have

- The 3 things that every woman wants for her daughter

- Plus, the culture shock within different States & Territories of Australia.

You may have heard of BMI, or Body Mass Index. The BMI measurement was first derived in the early to mid-1800s by Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

So far in modern history, the BMI has been seen as the only number that “if not fully satisfactory, [the BMI] is at least as good as any other relative weight index as an indicator of relative obesity” (Ancel Keys, Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1972). Today, guest blogger Sam Todd puts things into perspective when it comes to BMI.

In this episode you'll learn:

- What BMI is

- How it's calculated

- The weight class categories you fall into for a particular BMI

- Real life examples

- The Waist-to-Hip ratio

- Plus, what and how many measures you should be paying to attention to.

This is my 10 minute BlogCast. Every Monday, I'll release a 10 minute or less podcast talking about my blog for the week. You can find the written blog at www.JacobAndreae.com