Think Fit. Be Fit.

This plagues so many active people; hamstrings that just don’t quit. They carry a sensation of tightness most of their day or  tightness that pops up days after a rigorous workout.. While this may be normal, it’s not productive for your workouts.  

One of the most common observations that people have about their active body is that their hamstrings are ‘tight’.  This is usually followed by some type of comment expressing disappointment in their ‘lack of stretching’ to resolve their tight hamstrings. 

Here’s what is going on in my head: if your stretching actually worked, you would be doing it.”  That’s the plainest, most vanilla explanation for a lack of exercise adherence - but it’s true in most situations.  If you are motivated enough to learn more about your body through this podcast then if the exercises or stretches helped you’d be doing them.

This podcast episode will leave you scratching your head about why your hamstrings have been fighting you.  The discussion is centered around the 5 possibilities for your tight muscle sensations, and why they probably aren’t responding to stretching.  And that’s because the only way these types of issues truly resolve is when the problem is reverse engineered. So let’s get after it!

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• 5 possibilities that can be underlying tight hamstrings
• Mindfully adjusting around muscle tightness is a skill
• Why tight hamstrings usually don’t respond to stretching 
• 3 ways to test your hamstring flexibility to begin the process of reverse engineering your recurring tightness

Links of interest:

Download our hamstring guide that includes videos and exercises

“Jenn doesn’t stretch” podcast episode

Movement Pathways- the course that will change your exercise

Back Pain Guide from PainScience.com

Active Recovery podcast 1 

Active Recovery podcast 2

Active Recovery podcast 3

Holding onto pain-free exercise as we biologically age is a big deal. Healthy muscle mass is one of the keys to successful aging. When you’ve worked hard to achieve your fitness or injury recovery goal it’s important to take a step back and refine your process to ensure that your progress is maintained.  This solo-cast from Jenn proposes that we all take a the time to evaluate what we need to do maintain our fitness status quo.     Opportunity Cost is a  resource management concept that is almost exclusively taught in MBA programs but could apply broadly across many life aspects including exercise to maintain healthy joints.  It is defined as “A benefit, profit, or value of something that must be given up to acquire or achieve something else,” this is most useful in the context of exercise strategy to realize the value of your time.    What you’ll learn in this episode: Why you need the Strategic Goal Grid to do this How muscles decline as we age The 3 concepts that Jenn uses to teach this concept   Links of interest: Core Restore in New Jersey Jenn on instagram Book: Choosing the Strong Path Strategic Goal Grid for pain-free exercise

Holding onto pain-free exercise as we biologically age is a big deal. Healthy muscle mass is one of the keys to successful aging. When you’ve worked hard to achieve your fitness or injury recovery goal it’s important to take a step back and refine your process to ensure that your progress is maintained.  This solo-cast from Jenn proposes that we all take a the time to evaluate what we need to do maintain our fitness status quo.     Opportunity Cost is a  resource management concept that is almost exclusively taught in MBA programs but could apply broadly across many life aspects including exercise to maintain healthy joints.  It is defined as “A benefit, profit, or value of something that must be given up to acquire or achieve something else,” this is most useful in the context of exercise strategy to realize the value of your time.    What you’ll learn in this episode: Why you need the Strategic Goal Grid to do this How muscles decline as we age The 3 concepts that Jenn uses to teach this concept   Links of interest: Core Restore in New Jersey Jenn on instagram Book: Choosing the Strong Path Strategic Goal Grid for pain-free exercise

Any true fitness professional will tell you that trends appear with little to no outside validation or scientific thought process.  Jenn and her guest Morgan Williams discuss their 2 decades of experience as fitness professionals. They sift through the different areas of exercise application, the trials of being fit , maintaining healthy joints and exploring their competitive nature as female athletes.  

 

The bottom line is, if you have a belief in your ability to improve your body with exercise - you don’t have to rely on diluted and shallow information to guide you along the way. This episode pulls the curtain back on changes throughout their careers and how they continue to strive to be the best for their clients.

 

What you’ll learn in this episode: 

• How Jenn and Morgan have changed their approach to helping people with previous injuries get fit and stay fit. 
• Mistakes they’ve made with our business, clients and within our own exercise.
• The insight on changing trends from a Muscle Activation Techniques Specialist (Jenn since 2011) and a Muscle Activation Techniques student.  

Links of interest:

Dr. Hyman

The most delicious and unique chocolate bar!

Bar of Chocolates

Dr Rhonda Patrick on sauna use and improved athletic performance.  Sauna use has been shown to improve athletic performance without exercise interventions. 

YouTube

Range by David Epstein- poorly written but amazing content!

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41795733-range

SpectraCell Micronutrient test (the test Jenn uses for herself and clients)

Lab test link

Synergy Float Center in Alexandria VA

Book your first float!

Referral code: bk-978059

Any true fitness professional will tell you that trends appear with little to no outside validation or scientific thought process.  Jenn and her guest Morgan Williams discuss their 2 decades of experience as fitness professionals. They sift through the different areas of exercise application, the trials of being fit , maintaining healthy joints and exploring their competitive nature as female athletes.  

 

The bottom line is, if you have a belief in your ability to improve your body with exercise - you don’t have to rely on diluted and shallow information to guide you along the way. This episode pulls the curtain back on changes throughout their careers and how they continue to strive to be the best for their clients.

 

What you’ll learn in this episode: 

• How Jenn and Morgan have changed their approach to helping people with previous injuries get fit and stay fit. 
• Mistakes they’ve made with our business, clients and within our own exercise.
• The insight on changing trends from a Muscle Activation Techniques Specialist (Jenn since 2011) and a Muscle Activation Techniques student.  

Links of interest:

Dr. Hyman

The most delicious and unique chocolate bar!

Bar of Chocolates

Dr Rhonda Patrick on sauna use and improved athletic performance.  Sauna use has been shown to improve athletic performance without exercise interventions. 

YouTube

Range by David Epstein- poorly written but amazing content!

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41795733-range

SpectraCell Micronutrient test (the test Jenn uses for herself and clients)

Lab test link

Synergy Float Center in Alexandria VA

Book your first float!

Referral code: bk-978059

Do you worry about your body changing over the years?  I hear concerns all the time about not being able to achieve the body or athleticism of the past.   Join Jenn and Dr. Eleni Boosalis for a conversation that is a blend of personal fitness experience and professional knowledge of accepting change with grace.  Dr. Eleni of Del Ray Psych in Alexandria Virginia brings an incredible wealth of knowledge to the conversation as well as her unique experience of losing 55+ pounds after each of her 3 children.       What you’ll learn in this episode: -Fitness is feeling amazing in your body.  This priceless feeling only comes with acceptance of your self and where you are in your process. -How two trainers instructing you to do the same workouts can yield opposing results. -How you identify with your progress and self will have a big impact on your fitness outcomes.   More info on: Female hormones, Relaxin hormone secretion and breastfeeding:  https://kellymom.com/sponsors/meet-sponsor-fourth-trimester/   Links of interest: https://www.delraypsych.com/ https://www.wellraydelray.com/ https://www.instagram.com/wellraydelray/ http://walterlewisfitness.com/   Internal Family Systems https://selfleadership.org/ifs-store.html   Podcast with Alanis Morisette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH-32QS6Qfw

Do you worry about your body changing over the years?  I hear concerns all the time about not being able to achieve the body or athleticism of the past.   Join Jenn and Dr. Eleni Boosalis for a conversation that is a blend of personal fitness experience and professional knowledge of accepting change with grace.  Dr. Eleni of Del Ray Psych in Alexandria Virginia brings an incredible wealth of knowledge to the conversation as well as her unique experience of losing 55+ pounds after each of her 3 children.       What you’ll learn in this episode: -Fitness is feeling amazing in your body.  This priceless feeling only comes with acceptance of your self and where you are in your process. -How two trainers instructing you to do the same workouts can yield opposing results. -How you identify with your progress and self will have a big impact on your fitness outcomes.   More info on: Female hormones, Relaxin hormone secretion and breastfeeding:  https://kellymom.com/sponsors/meet-sponsor-fourth-trimester/   Links of interest: https://www.delraypsych.com/ https://www.wellraydelray.com/ https://www.instagram.com/wellraydelray/ http://walterlewisfitness.com/   Internal Family Systems https://selfleadership.org/ifs-store.html   Podcast with Alanis Morisette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH-32QS6Qfw

This episode is a stunning example of how simplicity and science can harmonize for effective exercise.  This harmony isn’t possible without a deep understanding of movement and neural pathways, but don't worry we make this lesson fun and interesting!   Join Jenn Schwartz and Rui Reis for a conversation about a novel way of injury rehab, exercise and re-wiring the brain for successful exercise and pain-free movement.     This will be an enlightening episode if you are open to the idea that injury and joint rehab exercise does not have to be centered on taking away movements or making the exercise ‘less stressful’.  We will show you that there is a type of training that focuses on your mind and body’s attention to engaged and fluid exercise.  It is a miraculous way to leave cycles of pain, injury and bad exercise.       What you’ll learn in this episode:

• What it means to use imagery in strength training to improve perceptions of pain
• Novels ways to train the brain out of cycles of pain and exercise
• Brain-mapping and drawing on how our brain collects information to improve resistance training
• Important tips on the sensation, pain and your exercise

Links of interest: Rui on instagram https://www.instagram.com/oitoo_fitness/   Rui’s training company in London https://www.oitoo.com/   Tendon pain and use of a metronome with isometrics https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/4/209   Recognize app from Noi Group http://www.noigroup.com/en/Product/BTRAPP

This episode is a stunning example of how simplicity and science can harmonize for effective exercise.  This harmony isn’t possible without a deep understanding of movement and neural pathways, but don't worry we make this lesson fun and interesting!   Join Jenn Schwartz and Rui Reis for a conversation about a novel way of injury rehab, exercise and re-wiring the brain for successful exercise and pain-free movement.     This will be an enlightening episode if you are open to the idea that injury and joint rehab exercise does not have to be centered on taking away movements or making the exercise ‘less stressful’.  We will show you that there is a type of training that focuses on your mind and body’s attention to engaged and fluid exercise.  It is a miraculous way to leave cycles of pain, injury and bad exercise.       What you’ll learn in this episode:

• What it means to use imagery in strength training to improve perceptions of pain
• Novels ways to train the brain out of cycles of pain and exercise
• Brain-mapping and drawing on how our brain collects information to improve resistance training
• Important tips on the sensation, pain and your exercise

Links of interest: Rui on instagram https://www.instagram.com/oitoo_fitness/   Rui’s training company in London https://www.oitoo.com/   Tendon pain and use of a metronome with isometrics https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/4/209   Recognize app from Noi Group http://www.noigroup.com/en/Product/BTRAPP

Meet Dr. Stephanie Johnson DC!  She is a full time chiropractic provider, business owner and super-jacked CrossFit athlete.  She and Jenn discuss the importance of being proactive with your chiropractor as well as mindful decision-making for maintaining good habits and posture.     Things you’ll learn in this episode:

• How a forward head posture can predispose an athlete to injuries
• The importance of breath and posture
• A mindfulness approach to Active Recovery

  Links of interest: Stephanie’s practice https://www.sjohnsonchiropractic.com/ https://posichiro.com/team/dr-stephanie-johnson-2/   Active Release Technique http://www.activerelease.com/   OTZ method https://otzhealthed.com/   Robert Sapolsky “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers" https://profiles.stanford.edu/robert-sapolsky