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This is Saja :World Class Athlete, Ranked 53 Globally Amongst Teens, 6th in Egypt Teen Phenome Talks about How she is Becoming the Best in her Field

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Speaker 1:                           00:01                     The Project Project Kuwait lit. Bless everybody. Welcome to this episode. And if you want to hear Dr [inaudible] go on a complete rant. Stick around to the end of the episode cause I seriously live up to being the shitster on this. You are, you always start trouble. But if you wanna get me going, I'll talk about the differences between psychiatry and psychology and all these other people that are acting like you know their profession in psychology and they're not. So if you want to understand about ethics, integrity, we touched on CBD and some of these people that are thinking that these drugs that are legalized or just like medication is a solver of all, it's not. You still need to take many, many different holistic approach to reach that meant the house. So listen up, learn and you can hear me ramping about things because Randy does that to me. And marijuana is not the solution for everything either. A CBD, Dr d goes on a full rant on that one. Yeah, this show is all rants. So everybody stick around. Do you have any questions, concerns or anything? Shoot us a DM. All this and more in today's episode. We're back. [inaudible]

Speaker 2:                           01:18                     no, you good? I'm recording it. You can't record it. I can't. I'm controlling everything. All right. I like [inaudible] control. I love this. So I'm back with another episode. Uh, as we are still on vacation and we're going to talk about general mental health here in the United States versus in Kuwait and the perceptions I guess. And CBD, I mean,

Speaker 1:                           01:41                     and CBD, CBD, I this, I've been here, I've been in Chicago, I hear nothing about CBD. And then the other day I was driving and there was the, some sort of a discussion about you know, better one is going to be legalized in January. This is the regular marijuana and marijuana or medication has already been legalized. And I just feel like people, this thing, this is like the solution for everything. I hope people are not walking around thinking, you know, if I have depression, I just do CBD or I take the, you know, medical marijuana and this, there are parameters and guidelines and I just feel like, wow, I cannot see you one more person. You're saying they're making it look like that. We don't need psychologists now. We don't need medication and not anymore. This is it. This is the solution. And it's really scary.

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الكابتن رائد الحماد يتكلم عن (الخطة التدريبية، الألعاب الرياضية  في الكروس فت، التزام الشخص بالتمارين الرياضية, الاهتمام بالرياضة في الدول العربية ، كيف تبدأ وتتهيأ للتدريب، كيفية تخفيف آلام الظهر بالتمارين ، ضرورة ممارسة المرأة تمارين الحديد. 

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Speaker 2:                           01:54                     And I was like, it's only three years. We'll finish the contract and come back. And it's been 14 years. They passed the five year mark in Kuwait. I truly believe if you go past five years, that's it. You're a lifer. It's true way like it's embedded. A lot of people love living here. I mean they have so many, it's easy. It is x and then it's really easy and you get comfortable for it with a certain lifestyle. Right? So here the three years I was supposed to stay in go and it's like, to me it's like it's automatic and I've covered another three years and another three years. So somehow being here wasn't as bad as I thought was going to be. And most of the time it's an easy life here. You already have people helping you all the time, you know, you make good money, it's easy to have like a nanny and do your own wash.

Speaker 2:                           02:39                     You don't have to do anything. That's true and you don't. And some nannies even cook and they can, you know, prepare at least the lifestyle is easy. You make good money, you start to get accustomed to certain things that you would do here that you probably don't do in the u s or anywhere else that you've come. Relocating comes with its own stress. 100 we have, we can't deny the fact and being an expat myself and also working with other ex bads is that when you first relocate, there are so many variables that you have to keep in mind and it's also possibility of getting stress and depression and especially if you've never done it before. Like for me, I came back here but I was born here a long time ago. Of course I don't remember it, but still somehow coming back here was a little bit that felt like there was roots for me.

Speaker 2:                           03:27                     You know, I always admired like Americans and Canadians [inaudible] all over the world. They come here and they'll, I mean at least I speak Arabic, like there's other people that don't speak Arabic. So it must be terrifying to be able to come to this part of the world and not know what to expect. Especially when you leave your family behind. Like the biggest thing for us, we all come here, we don't have family, we've left them behind. We've loved our friends, our roots. We've left the streets that we know in the, you know, everything is familial and, and now we're in a new place. We don't even know where we're going to live. What are we going to do? How are we gonna like our friends? So relocation is very important, especially for people.

Speaker 1:                           04:05                     Can you think it's really tough for college students even when you're a college student in the states and then you&

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Speaker 1:                           00:01                     The project lit lit. Hey everybody. Welcome to this episode of the project and in today's episode I'm sitting down with Jonathan Mills, creator of Rehab Revolution. The guy like dropped some serious knowledge bombs in this episode. I mean if you are an aspiring trainer and an aspiring online coach or want to learn more about the fitness industry, listen to what this guy has to say. He also points out some of the pitfalls that we might fall into. Well, looking into I'd say educational certifications. He completely changed my mind when I looked at accrediting bodies. We get into a little bit of a debate midway through it and again, it's such a good episode for everybody. New and old trainers. Give it a listen and again if you have any questions, dms or shoot us an email. All this and more today's episode. Hey guys,

e course is all about. I want to see what legitimacy it has to it. And they're like, no, it's just signed by our head trainer. I'm like, who is your head trainer? What was he accredited by? What's his background? Just as a coach for 15 years?

Speaker 2:                           05:25                     Yes. Some of the best coaches and some of the best trainers out there have zero certificates. You know what I mean? It's Kinda like with teachers and professionals in different industries. For instance, take Richard Bronson, the guy dropped out of high school or dropped out of college and he's the richest man in the world. But at the same time, especially in this part of the world, that accreditation or that legitimacy needs to be recognized so you don't have the posers coming out so to speak. So what do you think about that side of the argument? Definitely. I said

Speaker 3:                           05:56                     which whatever industry you're in Roy, he's going to get those. So called poses. I got like Tommy and and create the writing stuff, a marketer as the best thing ever. It just comes down to the individual to, I say it's their responsibility to kind of check before they jump in and stop kind of paying money and spending more investing their time in. So learning just because it looks great and the marketing's amazing. It needs to look into that further. Look at the credibility of the people running it. All the people teaching it. Do I have a background in what they're teaching as I taught before? Do they have like you that credibility back them up and some do, some don't. But again it comes down to the same with some of the accredited courses I've seen run are the content, is industry standard? Does it mean that standard is like extremely high quality?

Speaker 3:                           06:45                     It just means it&

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Time Stamps:

2:55 – Mahdi’s accomplishments while training for his upcoming competition in Istanbul.

5:19 – Meg’s dad has chosen to live a healthier and more active lifestyle this year and Meg reports on his great progress.

11:31 – Destroying narratives we have grown up believing and changing our mindsets.

13:32 – Gaining longevity and feeling younger despite people warning you that you’re going to get hurt.

16:05 – Find something you want to do because you enjoy it and don’t let other people’s experiences affect what you believe.

17:23 – Meg talks about a recent workshop she attended that completely changed how she thinks about back pain and she describes the specifics of decompression breathing.

21:36 – Meg walks Mahdi and Haya through a decompression breathing exercise.

25:08 – Consistency is key – if you want to see results with anything, you need to do it consistently.

28:57 – Emotional reasons for metaphysical pain and ways to alleviate both.

30:33 – Meg describes how bird dogs and dead bugs help with stability and mobility.

32:20 – MRIs are one picture at one point in time and should not be viewed as a life sentence.

33:57 – Mahdi talks about his experience with doctors in Kuwait rushing people to surgery when physical therapy and healthy habits could have solved the problem.

36:48 – Sometimes people choose the immediacy and convenience of medicine and surgery rather than putting in the work to help you body heal itself.

37:55 – Mahdi integrates “stopping” exercises into his warmup routine.

40:01 – The mind-body connection and the importance of not rushing through. Haya talks about the connection between grip strength and pulling strength, urging people to ditch the straps.

42:38 – Haya talks about her very agile hamstrings and the work she is doing to make her ankles and calves more mobile.

45:28 – Recognizing where you are starting from and correcting any imbalances.

46:50 – Everyone is built differently. Pain is information and different than discomfort.

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Speaker 2:                    09:47                You're very hardworking. Like you could tell these skills from people that, and you know I've said this before, I think sometimes these traumas that we experience is good for us. It makes us be a different person. No, you're right. And it's like I think it gives people other abilities to compensate. Yeah. I don't know if you've read outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. It's a great book and it talks about how he built gates and how all these guys kind of work. They were just set up at the right time. They had the right pieces of the puzzle. Yes, and I think a lot of people, and I can't remember the name of the book that I read that talked about people with learning disabilities like Richard Bronson, how he's dyslexic. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, broad sense. This Lexi and I was just trying to Google it right now is too, I think so.

Speaker 2:                    10:33                There's actually a lot of people and there was a book written and more people dyslexic than people know about and there's a lot more people that have learning disabilities that are successful because they're successful. We don't doubt. See that's the point. The point is like these people are very successful. We never doubt that they would have some sort of a disability and because we assume people with disability, they're never going to work out anywhere. They always going to be failures or they're going to be mediocre, average kind of Joe's that are working in this society making minimal salaries and that's it. We never really assume that actually some of these kids have been identified as having learning disability at a younger age and maybe it's somebody like you. That's why I think you're going to be very successful to be honest. I think it's because you have that drive and that where did that drive come from?

Speaker 2:                    11:20                It came from your experience at the beginning where they told you you can do certain things like you're never going to pass with good grade or are commenting about like your imagination was bad for you, which your imagination is not bad for you because now you're putting it into work. And so the idea is is that it's exactly what I'm saying is that you'll never, because automatically successful people, we assume they don't have any disability, disability people, we've already categorize them, right? Disabled people exceeding expectations. It is to see us folks, successful adults with learning disabilities. That was the book and it talks about

Speaker 1:                    12:52                Whereas I could've taken it a different way. I could have gotten all depressed, sad and with some people have and that kind of an expense. Now how old were you? I was like, when did you come to Kuwait? 2005 so I was like 2122 as soon as you came to Kuwait and there was an email that said open psychol

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