Think Fit. Be Fit.

The automatic motions of our body are rarely thought of in terms of chronic pain and performance.  We are discussing a topic today that bridges all of those factors together; the diaphragm, breathing and the pelvic floor.  

Please welcome the 2nd Physical Therapist guest on Think Fit. Be Fit., Noelle.

Noelle Ekonomou has Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Saint Louis University and has received extensive training in both orthopedic, neurologic and acute rehabilitation. Noelle is passionate about helping others pursue their overall health and wellness goals and believes in providing the highest quality of care. With an integrated, whole-body rehabilitation model, Noelle uses extensive evaluation, examination and treatment procedures. She deeply explores the root cause of her patients’ injuries — considering musculoskeletal, vestibular, vision, neurologic, lymphatic, and cardiopulmonary systems.

Noelle has advanced her skills through continued post-graduate coursework for osteopathic manual therapies including muscle energy, strain-counterstrain, cranial and joint mobilizations, and fascial and lymphatic balancing. She has also been specially trained to perform internal pelvic floor muscle evaluation and treatment through the Hermann and Wallace institute.

In addition to her manual skills, Noelle also began her special interest in treating scoliosis and neuromuscular imbalances through the Postural Restoration Institute (PRI).

How to reach Noelle: http://www.one2onephysicaltherapy.com/about/about-us/ https://www.sculpd.co/ https://www.posturalrestoration.com/   Noelle on instagram https://www.instagram.com/noellekono/ https://www.instagram.com/one2oneholisticpt/   Links of interest:   Oxygen Advantage https://amzn.to/3aXxTdq   Wim Hof breathing and Buteyko leader and coach: Bob Soulliere in Alexandria  https://www.breatheyourpower.com/   Research on breathing techniques: Ballon breathing Lower back pain and ballon breathing:   Check out out video on Ballon Breathing by signing up for the podcast newsletter, it will be sent to you immediately. https://www.impactyourfitness.net/newsletter

Jenn on Instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/impact_your_fitness/

You can support the podcast by checking out RUVI, a high performance drink that is just fruit and veggies and nothing else.  It really speaks for itself- no additives/sugar/gluten and all the fiber- your first order comes with a free shaker bottle.  Go to https://impactyourfitness.thrivelife.com/ruvi

 

“Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.” Joseph Pilates

The goal of today's short episode is to present the theory that Pilates, the modality and man, have a lot more to offer than ab exercises and helping lower back pain.  Jenn is bringing on her Pilates teacher, Tara Becker, for a presentation on a whole-body approach to Pilates and why every single person can use it in their fitness program.  

Tara Becker discovered Pilates in the early 2000s while studying at Syracuse University. Having undergone three reconstructive foot surgeries as a teenager, she was impressed with the way Pilates safely strengthened her whole body while helping her feet. As a former gymnast, she also loved how Pilates combined strength and flexibility on different apparatus.

Tara began teaching Pilates mat classes in 2012 and completed her comprehensive apparatus training through Power Pilates in the summer of 2016. Ever the student, she still takes weekly lessons with senior teachers, and has attended continuing education workshops with Anula Maiberg, Andrea Maida, Benjamin Degenhardt, Blossom Crawford, and Bob Liekens, among others.

Also an avid yogi, Tara completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Tranquil Space (now YogaWorks) in 2018 and is a registered yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance and is known her warm and playful nature.

Check out Tara at:

www.impactyourfitness.net

https://www.instagram.com/tararose224/

Links of interest:

Quotes from Joseph Pilates

https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/8890-joseph-pilates

Article on some of the interesting history of Pilates

https://thewirecutter.com/blog/pilates-flu-epidemic/

Jenn on Instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/impact_your_fitness/

You can support the podcast by checking out RUVI, a high performance drink that is just fruit and veggies and nothing else.  It really speaks for itself- no additives/sugar/gluten and all the fiber- your first order comes with a free shaker bottle.  Go to https://impactyourfitness.thrivelife.com/ruvi

 

“Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.” Joseph Pilates

The goal of today's short episode is to present the theory that Pilates, the modality and man, have a lot more to offer than ab exercises and helping lower back pain.  Jenn is bringing on her Pilates teacher, Tara Becker, for a presentation on a whole-body approach to Pilates and why every single person can use it in their fitness program.  

Tara Becker discovered Pilates in the early 2000s while studying at Syracuse University. Having undergone three reconstructive foot surgeries as a teenager, she was impressed with the way Pilates safely strengthened her whole body while helping her feet. As a former gymnast, she also loved how Pilates combined strength and flexibility on different apparatus.

Tara began teaching Pilates mat classes in 2012 and completed her comprehensive apparatus training through Power Pilates in the summer of 2016. Ever the student, she still takes weekly lessons with senior teachers, and has attended continuing education workshops with Anula Maiberg, Andrea Maida, Benjamin Degenhardt, Blossom Crawford, and Bob Liekens, among others.

Also an avid yogi, Tara completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Tranquil Space (now YogaWorks) in 2018 and is a registered yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance and is known her warm and playful nature.

Check out Tara at:

www.impactyourfitness.net

https://www.instagram.com/tararose224/

Links of interest:

Quotes from Joseph Pilates

https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/8890-joseph-pilates

Article on some of the interesting history of Pilates

https://thewirecutter.com/blog/pilates-flu-epidemic/

Jenn on Instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/impact_your_fitness/

You can support the podcast by checking out RUVI, a high performance drink that is just fruit and veggies and nothing else.  It really speaks for itself- no additives/sugar/gluten and all the fiber- your first order comes with a free shaker bottle.  Go to https://impactyourfitness.thrivelife.com/ruvi

 

Chances are your home exercise program is centered on full body cardio and burpees.  If this is the case, join Jenn and Ed Morand for a conversation on enhancing and amplifying your home workout.  

There's nothing wrong with the typical full body cardio home workout, but what if you could replicate every exercise from a cable machine with tubing and a carabiner? Wouldn't that be better?  This episode will walk through several things that can be implemented at home for a rich and robust exercise experience.

Topics covered:

• Training and fitness are essential services
• Why Ed doesn’t call exercises by a particular name
• Simple science can enhance your exercise experience and performance
• The make up of Ed’s unique at home pilates exercise class blend.  
• Boosting nitric oxide with exercise
• We discuss the physics of tubing 
• Cues that enhance bodyweight exercise

Links of interest:

Book mentioned: Movements That Heal

Muscle Activation Techniques

Purchase a quality carabiner for your tubing

Get in touch with Ed:

[email protected]

https://www.beyondpilates.net/

https://www.facebook.com/BEYONDPILATESNYC/

https://www.instagram.com/ed_morand/

https://www.instagram.com/beyondpilatesnyc/

Get in touch with Jenn:

www.impactyourfitness.net

https://www.instagram.com/impact_your_fitness/

You can support the podcast by checking RUVI, a high performance drink that is just fruit and veggies and nothing else.  It really speaks for itself- no additives/sugar/gluten and all the fiber- your first order comes with a free shaker bottle.  Go to https://impactyourfitness.thrivelife.com/ruvi

Chances are your home exercise program is centered on full body cardio and burpees.  If this is the case, join Jenn and Ed Morand for a conversation on enhancing and amplifying your home workout.  

There's nothing wrong with the typical full body cardio home workout, but what if you could replicate every exercise from a cable machine with tubing and a carabiner? Wouldn't that be better?  This episode will walk through several things that can be implemented at home for a rich and robust exercise experience.

Topics covered:

• Training and fitness are essential services
• Why Ed doesn’t call exercises by a particular name
• Simple science can enhance your exercise experience and performance
• The make up of Ed’s unique at home pilates exercise class blend.  
• Boosting nitric oxide with exercise
• We discuss the physics of tubing 
• Cues that enhance bodyweight exercise

Links of interest:

Book mentioned: Movements That Heal

Muscle Activation Techniques

Purchase a quality carabiner for your tubing

Get in touch with Ed:

[email protected]

https://www.beyondpilates.net/

https://www.facebook.com/BEYONDPILATESNYC/

https://www.instagram.com/ed_morand/

https://www.instagram.com/beyondpilatesnyc/

Get in touch with Jenn:

www.impactyourfitness.net

https://www.instagram.com/impact_your_fitness/

You can support the podcast by checking RUVI, a high performance drink that is just fruit and veggies and nothing else.  It really speaks for itself- no additives/sugar/gluten and all the fiber- your first order comes with a free shaker bottle.  Go to https://impactyourfitness.thrivelife.com/ruvi

Instagram influencer workouts seem pretty harmless and fun. While they serve their purpose of capturing your attention, Jenn and Jaclyn of Athleats Nutrition discuss how ‘fun and sweaty’ are not the same as appropriate and effective.  They would argue that the nature of Instagram influencer workouts are not stimulating enough to be effective for fat loss and achieving muscle growth in females. In other words, you can benefit to stop and think about your body and its mechanics while scrolling Instagram. Tune in for more information on getting the most out of your workouts and more nuggets, such as these conversation highlights:

• Fitness and nutrition programming
• Stress and weight loss
• Finding new ways to add resistance to exercise without machines
• An alternative to jumps and plyometrics
• Vitamin D 

 

Jaclyn provides nutrition and fitness programming, check her out here: https://www.instagram.com/athleatsnutrition/

 

Jenn provides training for muscular strength issues related to old injuries and muscle tightness.  

www.impactyourfitness.net 

Some inks of interest:

• Fitness Junkie book, just a fun book
• https://wwd.com/eye/lifestyle/fitness-junkie-lucy-sykes-novel-10942353/
• Metabolic testing that Jaclyn uses
• football education for ladies 
• https://linktr.ee/athleatsnutrition
• http://thinkfitbefit.libsyn.com/jaclyn-interview-1420-520-pm
• https://www.instagram.com/athleatsnutrition/

Support the podcast with a review!

You can also help by checking out Ruvi, all fruits and vegetables and nothing else: 

https://impactyourfitness.thrivelife.com/ruvi

Instagram influencer workouts seem pretty harmless and fun. While they serve their purpose of capturing your attention, Jenn and Jaclyn of Athleats Nutrition discuss how ‘fun and sweaty’ are not the same as appropriate and effective.  They would argue that the nature of Instagram influencer workouts are not stimulating enough to be effective for fat loss and achieving muscle growth in females. In other words, you can benefit to stop and think about your body and its mechanics while scrolling Instagram. Tune in for more information on getting the most out of your workouts and more nuggets, such as these conversation highlights:

• Fitness and nutrition programming
• Stress and weight loss
• Finding new ways to add resistance to exercise without machines
• An alternative to jumps and plyometrics
• Vitamin D 

 

Jaclyn provides nutrition and fitness programming, check her out here: https://www.instagram.com/athleatsnutrition/

 

Jenn provides training for muscular strength issues related to old injuries and muscle tightness.  

www.impactyourfitness.net 

Some inks of interest:

• Fitness Junkie book, just a fun book
• https://wwd.com/eye/lifestyle/fitness-junkie-lucy-sykes-novel-10942353/
• Metabolic testing that Jaclyn uses
• football education for ladies 
• https://linktr.ee/athleatsnutrition
• http://thinkfitbefit.libsyn.com/jaclyn-interview-1420-520-pm
• https://www.instagram.com/athleatsnutrition/

Support the podcast with a review!

You can also help by checking out Ruvi, all fruits and vegetables and nothing else: 

https://impactyourfitness.thrivelife.com/ruvi

Today’s episode is a really important one.  It covers a topic that affects someone you know or perhaps even you and it’s definitely something we are trying to avoid, which is chronic pain.   Here are some statistics:  

• 50 million Americans live with chronic pain
• Between $500 and 630 BILLION is lost annually due to chronic pain in  America 
• Patients experience persistent pain after routine surgery up to 50% of the time.
• 18% of women suffer from migraine attacks.
• Back pain is the leading reason for sick leave and early retirement in Europe. 
• Back pain represents 27% of all types of pain.
• 34.6% of pain patients in Canada think of suicide.
• In N America pain accounts for 78% of all ER visits.

  Meet Jen DeLorenzo a Licensed Physical Therapist, Certified Functional Manual Therapist, Therapeutic Pain Specialist, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach.  She is based in Alexandria Virginia and aligned with Jenn's in-person practice.    Topics discussed

• A new way of working with Physical Therapy
• Pain as an experience, there’s so much more to pain than our biology
• How the environment that we are in can influence pain
• The 4 main pillars of health for the nervous system and pain
• Chronic pain information that most physicians don’t understand
• What nudging with pain means

Links of interest:

https://drgominak.com/ https://evidenceinmotion.com/people/adriaan-louw/ https://evidenceinmotion.com/ https://noijam.com/about-noi/ https://www.instagram.com/theexercisedesignlab/ https://youtu.be/gwd-wLdIHjs https://medalerthelp.org/chronic-pain-statistics/   [email protected]  703-859-3415 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jendelorenzopt/

Today’s episode is a really important one.  It covers a topic that affects someone you know or perhaps even you and it’s definitely something we are trying to avoid, which is chronic pain.   Here are some statistics:  

• 50 million Americans live with chronic pain
• Between $500 and 630 BILLION is lost annually due to chronic pain in  America 
• Patients experience persistent pain after routine surgery up to 50% of the time.
• 18% of women suffer from migraine attacks.
• Back pain is the leading reason for sick leave and early retirement in Europe. 
• Back pain represents 27% of all types of pain.
• 34.6% of pain patients in Canada think of suicide.
• In N America pain accounts for 78% of all ER visits.

  Meet Jen DeLorenzo a Licensed Physical Therapist, Certified Functional Manual Therapist, Therapeutic Pain Specialist, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach.  She is based in Alexandria Virginia and aligned with Jenn's in-person practice.    Topics discussed

• A new way of working with Physical Therapy
• Pain as an experience, there’s so much more to pain than our biology
• How the environment that we are in can influence pain
• The 4 main pillars of health for the nervous system and pain
• Chronic pain information that most physicians don’t understand
• What nudging with pain means

Links of interest:

https://drgominak.com/ https://evidenceinmotion.com/people/adriaan-louw/ https://evidenceinmotion.com/ https://noijam.com/about-noi/ https://www.instagram.com/theexercisedesignlab/ https://youtu.be/gwd-wLdIHjs https://medalerthelp.org/chronic-pain-statistics/   [email protected]  703-859-3415 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jendelorenzopt/

These conversations are the reason WHY Jenn started this podcast.   The way we exercise is a direct reflection on how we view the body.  The Exercise Science Insider episodes are designed to show you that exercise is so much more than meets the eye.

This episode lays out some critical thinking pieces about exercise and training for sports that you can apply NOW and when our gyms and fields open back up    Theme for part 2: How learning the skill of an exercise or a sport skill can contribute to being injury free, confident, athletic and fit.   READ THIS White Paper from Gregory Gordon   Topics covered: Recap of our first episode, find it here  The importance of having a bandwidth of error How virtual training can be more effective exercise Tactile and verbal feedback- when it’s most helpful Electrical stimulation is not the same as teaching muscles in a rehab setting   Links of interest: Exercise Intelligence  https://www.instagram.com/exercise_intelligence/ https://linktr.ee/exercise_intelligence   Jenn on instagram https://www.instagram.com/impact_your_fitness/