The Ultimate "Body Weight Only" System For Building Athletic & Resilient Bodies

Dec 15, 2022

Dr. Eric Goodman, founder of Foundation Training and author, joins coach Jessie Salas to unravel the power of bodyweight training. They dive into how gravity impacts health, emphasizing deep breathing and spinal decompression for overall well-being. Discover the essential eight-point plank for core strength and gain insights into adapting exercises for all ages. Their discussion highlights self-sufficiency in health management and the importance of movement mechanics, empowering listeners to reclaim their physical resilience.

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Primary Foundation Training Movements

Practice decompression breathing and fundamental hip hinges, the two most important foundation training movements.
These exercises improve breathing capacity, core strength, and overall body awareness.

INSIGHT

Foundation Training Breathing

Foundation Training breathing differs from belt or 360-degree breathing by focusing on filling the lungs within the rib cage.
This technique uses lung tissue to expand the rib cage, improving breathing capacity and addressing restrictions.

ADVICE

Exhaling in Decompression Breathing

Keep your rib cage expanded even while exhaling during decompression breathing. This engages the serratus anterior for shoulder stability and rib cage mobility.

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I describe how I have sprinkled into my daily movement snacks a very effective way to “turn on” my butt, decompress my spine, activate deep diaphragmatic breathing and much more.

It all starts with gravity.

Gravity has the ability to adversely affect processes in some or all of the following physiological systems:

Your respiratory system, because a compressed rib cage limits the lungs' ability to expand and diminishes your breathing capacity…
Your digestive system, because squashes organs don't function nearly as well as they should and that burdens the body's ability to gain nourishment from food..
Your circulatory system, because squeezed blood vessels are not as efficient or as effective as they ought to be transporting nutrients, oxygen, carbon dioxide, hormones, and blood cells to where they need to be transported in order for your body to perform or fight disease…
Your nervous system, because a compressed spinal cord and constricted neural pathways slow the progress of all those neurotransmitters trying to communicate from the periphery to the central nervous system – and back again – and can undermine the brain's ability to coordinate and influence all the activities of your body…

Hunching all day at a keyboard, tilting our heads forward over our phones, commuting long hours, and slouching on the couch simply magnify and aggravate these problems, resulting in poor posture that throw our bodies out of balance, causing unnecessary stress and strain that compromises our joints, restricts organ function, and weakens our force output.

My guests for this episode are Dr. Eric Goodman (founder of Foundation Training) and Jessie Salas. Visit https://www.foundationtraining.com

Full show notes here: Bengreenfieldlife.com/drgoodman

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