Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Maybe you want to start something, but you're too afraid. However, there will never be a 'right' time and you just have to take the leap. You may fall on your face many times, but that's okay. That's part of the journey. - Ali Reti Discover the power of progress over perfection by focusing on small wins rather than stressing over the bigger picture. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST 20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE This episode is for all of us who have dreamed big dreams, but have never taken the leap. Whether you are afraid of failure or not sure how to change your life, you will be able to activate a life you love by the end of this episode. In Wellness Force Radio #153, Ali Reti of RetiFit joins us to share how she activated a life she loves and how she's now helping other people do the same through health and wellness. A recovering perfectionist, as well as former national fitness trainer turned life coach, public speaker, and podcast host of the The Ali Reti Podcast: Activate A Life You Love, Ali understands that completely changing life around is no easy task. However, if you take small steps and focus on daily achievements, anything is truly possible. The Activate A Life You Love Event with Ali Reti The Activate a Life You Love event is a one of a kind immersion experience designed to dissolve the hidden blocks keeping you stuck, accelerate your success, and finally, thrive in your life’s unique purpose. No distractions. No information overload. Focus, immersion, and implementation. Let’s create traction in your life, in your career, and in your relationships. Listen To Episode 153 As Ali Reti Uncovers: What she learned from her parents' experiences and challenges as entrepreneurs. Why you should focus more on progress over perfection. The power of small wins over time to make your progress last. How showing up and being present will keep you on a steady path. What you can do to make yourself more comfortable with the future and unknown by being in touch with your spirituality. Where Ali's past drive for perfectionism came from in the first place. How can you be vulnerable from a healthy standpoint? Why it's normal to be tested by life and the universe when you're trying to improve and move on up with life. How shame and guilt can hold you back from reaching out for the help that you need and why you should reach out to someone if you're struggling. Dealing with the great unknown and anxious thoughts about the future. The power of finding the daily joys and knowing that something cannot just happen overnight. How she worked as an Uber driver to stay financially secure while working hard towards her career goal. Why a dream job might not be all that you thought it would be and those who you once idolized aren't what you thought they were. The difference between taking massive action and the more calm, center-focused, and inspired action. Why no one single method of discovering inspired action exists because it's different for each person. Different ways to discover your own inspired action as long as it resonates with you. Shutting down the negative 'monkey mind' voice in your head. Power Quotes From The Show "Fitness and nutrition are both very important, but there are so many different aspects to our lives such as our relationships, home life, or work. So, if those things not going well and we're not happy, then everything else will suffer." - Ali Reti "I believe that our intuition will always guide us to exactly where we need to be."  - Ali Reti "I cope with anxious thoughts about the unknown by telling myself that if it's not this, then it's something better. I trust that if this is not what I'm supposed to be doing, then I can't even fathom how amazing my life will be with my next decision." - Ali Reti "As humans, we're meant to collaborate and go through experiences together. Whatever you're experiencing right now, you're not actually meant to go through it alone. Know that and be brave by reaching out to someone for help." - Ali Reti "When you put 'good' out into the world, that comes back to you. When you give to others, you have no idea how that will come back, but it will certainly impact your life." - Ali Reti Links From Today's Show: Ali Reti Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube LinkedIn The Ali Reti Podcast: Activate A Life You Love Episode 76 - Coping with the Unknown The Law of Attraction Wellbridge Brené Brown On Air With Ella Les Brown - The Chinese Bamboo Tree (Lesson on Patience) Tony Robbins Finding Joe Past Life Regression EPIC Bar RXBAR WFR #129 - Gretchen Rubin WFR #127 - Ella Lucas-Averett WFR #055 - Gay and Katie Hendricks About Ali Reti A recovering perfectionist, Ali Reti is intimately familiar with how losing sight of the forest for the trees can cause crippling stress and anxiety on a regular basis. She’s come to realize that exercise—particularly the kind RetiFit prescribes—is the ultimate game-changer when it comes to loosening the grip that negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors have on our everyday lives. Ali has dedicated her career to inspiring healthy behavior change in others through exercise and fitness. Through her parent's entrepreneurial successes and failures, Ali learned first-hand that the best way to make a living is by first making a genuine life. For her, the center of that genuine life is wellness education and fitness services. Ali's professional experiences over the past 10 years have reinforced her commitment to progressing in life highlighting wellness and fitness—she loves it, she's good at it, and most importantly, she's seen it help people and change lives, time and time again. Around the world, and in-person in Boulder, CO, RetiFit clients are empowered by the companies results-oriented commitment to be a catalyst for worldwide social change and individual healthy behavior change. As a Certified Group Exercise Instructor (Les Mills, MOSSA), Certified Personal Trainer (CPT), and Precision Nutrition Coach, Ali has helped thousands of clients progress toward a healthier version of themselves. Through RetiFit, Ali can’t wait to get in front of audiences around the world and share her energy and passion in demonstrating to others how committing to and choosing progress over perfection can lead to realized dreams and an overwhelming sense of accomplishment. Get More Wellness In Your Life Join the WFR Community on facebook Send Josh Trent a personal message Tweet me on Twitter: Send us a fun tweet (or a what's up) Comment on the Facebook page Sign up to get an email alert whenever we release a new episode Support This Podcast Leave a 5 star review on iTunes Share this episode with someone you care about Contact Wellness Force Radio for podcast sponsorship and partnership opportunities Rate & Review Wellness Force ---> REVIEW THE PODCAST Ask A Live Question For The Next Episode ---> Click here to leave a voicemail directly to Josh Trent to be read live on the air.  You May Also Like These Episodes Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig Nir Eyal: Breaking Bad Habits, Technology Addiction, & Emotional Triggers Healthy, Happy & Harder To Kill w/ Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo Beyond Meditation: How To Get A Better Brain With Ariel Garten Living A Healthy Lifestyle In A Modern World With Dan Pardi Creating A Life Worth Living With Michael Strasner Join the Wellness Force Newsletter: www.wellnessforce.com/news Don't miss next week's show: Subscribe and stay updated Did you like this show on Ketosis? Rate and review Wellness Force on iTunes You read all the way to the bottom? 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Pain is a request for change. Whenever you feel any pain, that's your brain and body telling you that they need your full attention. - Dr. Perry Nickelston Once you learn how to read and understand your body, it will never lie to you.  JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST 20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE Your life is 100% unique to yourself. How you lived in the past, your life today, and your future is unlike anybody else's. Therefore, the health choices you've made and the environment you live in can ultimately affect both your mind an body. This podcast is for those of you who've gotten to the point where it seems like your pain will not improve and there's no way out.  On Wellness Force episode 152, Chiropractic Physician and author of the upcoming book, Stop Chasing Pain, Dr. Perry Nickelston, DC, NKT, FMS, SFMA, has been helping people who feel lost without the hope of getting better to restore the quality of their life. He fully understands that we shouldn't approach healing the body with the same method every time because each person lives a different life and has experienced different movements. In fact, to heal an injury, Perry advises that we need to look as far back as 1o years to see what could have led to such pain. By the end of this episode, you will be more somatically aware of yourself and how to identify the toxic environments, thoughts, and poor habits that are causing you pain.   Stop Chasing Pain by Dr. Perry Nickelston Dr. Perry Nickelston's upcoming book, Stop Chasing Pain empowers readers to take back control of their lives from pain—to get over their fear of movement and regain a connection with their bodies. Movement is brain candy and neural nitro for the whole body. Change how you move and you change your life! The human body is designed to move. Today’s sedentary lifestyles and cookie-cutter exercise programs make us more prone to pain and injury. The answer lies in going back to how we learned to move in the first place, taking the body back to ground zero and tapping into fundamental human movement patterns. Full-body movements that integrate our muscular subsystems gives us strength, power, flexibility, timing, and coordination. Stop Chasing Pain begins with a fundamental pattern assessment to help readers see where they fall on the movement scale and how much stability they need to regain. Then it explains how to use the RAIL Reset system (Release, Activate, Integrate, Locomotion) to regress movement and progress strength. Mobility restrictions and pain are linked to dysfunction in the five movement subsystems: intrinsics, posterior oblique, anterior oblique, lateral, and deep longitudinal. Without these we don’t move. Dr. Perry shows readers how to release them with rollers, balls, and bands; activate them with Chapman Reflex points; integrate with Powerhouse stretching and Primal Movement Chains fundamental patterns; and then stand up and move (locomotion). Listen To Episode 152 As Perry Nickelston Uncovers: How he began his personal wellness journey to better health after experiencing numerous health problems including cancer. How we can change the perception of the world, ourselves, and what causes us to feel pain. What he did to change his environment to help him heal. What influenced him to start doing more ground based movements to both heal and grow. How he developed his assessment skills to better help patients with their next steps towards healing. Why we shouldn't approach healing a body with the same method because each person lives a different life and has experienced different movements over the course of their lifetime. The core pillars of assessing a patient as a chiropractor. How we can identify our own barriers so we that we may overcome them. The physical signs that someone is under a great amount of stress. How to activate our limbic brain and deal with traumatic stress. What we can do to become more somatically aware of ourselves. How inner stress along with a toxic environment and pollutants can inflame the body. Why phones and social media are affecting our energy levels, mindset, and social life for the worse. The harm we do to ourselves by making bad habits like eating junk food, drinking too much alcohol, and allowing other external factors to become our new normal.  What we can do to give our brain what it needs to get enough oxygen to thrive: breathe better, move more, and change your environment. Why medicine isn't a quick fix for all of our illnesses because we're all different and live in various environments. What fermented foods like Kiefer milk can do to dramatically improve our gut health and increase the amount of serotonin in the body. Power Quotes From The Show   "When I became a chiropractor, I quickly realized that there has to be something more to just helping people fix a problem. I've always looked for the reason why people become injured, but more importantly, why they don't stay well after seeing a therapist. Why don't these therapies last? That's when I started looking at movement." - Perry Nickelston "You cannot get well in the same environment in which you became ill in the first place." - Perry Nickelston "There is an emotional component to every type of chronic illness and pain as well as every barrier in fitness and performance. Sometimes people just get can't get out of their own way and that's when they start to beat themselves up about it. So, when you remove that barrier, a person's life can completely change. They no longer feel the pain and can break through a plateau." - Perry Nickelston "When you understand how to read the body, there will be tell-tale signs about their health such as the eyes and the face. People who are under a great amount of stress will have a lot of inflammation. You can see it in the eyes if they're red and the pupils are wide and locked in fight or flight mode." - Perry Nickelston "There's so much sickness and illness along with autoimmune disorders in the world and it's only getting worse. Why is this happening? It's happening because our bodies are becoming inflamed by the world that we live in. That inflammation begins to take a hold  of us even when we don't know it's there." - Perry Nickelston Links From Today's Show: Dr. Perry Nickelston Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Google+ Stop Chasing Pain Official Website SCP Podcast Primal Movements Chain Rocktape products Rockstock 2018 Spartan Races Gray Cook Movement Head Strong by Dave Asprey 7 Kefir Benefits and Nutrition Facts that Boost Immunity & Heal the Gut Our Top 10 Favorite Kefir Beverages...and One You Can Even Make at Home Serotonin Foods and Mood Disorders WFR #084 - Dr. David Perlmutter WFR #137 - Dr. Tim Brown About Dr. Perry Nickelston: Perry Nickelston, DC, NKT, FMS, SFMA, is a Chiropractic Physician with primary focus on Performance Enhancement, Corrective Exercise, and Metabolic Fitness Nutrition and trained fromThe American College of Addictionology and Compulsive Disorders. He is an expert in myofascial, orthopedic, medical and trigger point soft tissue therapy. A member of the Board of Directors and Medical Staff Advisor for AIMLA (American Institute of Medical Laser Application). Dr. Perry teaches healthcare professionals all over the world how to successfully use Class IV Deep Tissue Laser Therapy in alleviating pain. Director of clinical protocols and training for LiteCure Medical Lasers specializing in Myofascial Laser treatments. Dr. Perry is an expert in movement assessment and diagnosis. Certified and trained as a Functional Movement Specialist (FMS) and Selective Functional Movement Assessment Specialist (SFMA). He uses programs designed to find your source of painful dysfunction and correct it the site of pain improves. A regular columnist for Dynamic Chiropractic, Practice Insights, Chiropractic Economics, To Your Health Magazine, Advance Physical Therapy, PT on the Net, LiveStrong, StrengthCoach, and other industry publications for health and fitness. Rock Tape At RockTape, we make products that help people move better. When people move better, they tend to move more. More human movement is our goal. Click To Check Out RockTape's Entire Product Suite Get More Wellness In Your Life Join the WFR Community on facebook Send Josh Trent a personal message Tweet me on Twitter: Send us a fun tweet (or a what's up) Comment on the Facebook page Sign up to get an email alert whenever we release a new episode Support This Podcast Leave a 5 star review on iTunes Share this episode with someone you care about Contact Wellness Force Radio for podcast sponsorship and partnership opportunities Rate & Review Wellness Force ---> REVIEW THE PODCAST Ask A Live Question For The Next Episode ---> Click here to leave a voicemail directly to Josh Trent to be read live on the air.  You May Also Like These Episodes Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig Nir Eyal: Breaking Bad Habits, Technology Addiction, & Emotional Triggers Healthy, Happy & Harder To Kill w/ Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo Beyond Meditation: How To Get A Better Brain With Ariel Garten Living A Healthy Lifestyle In A Modern World With Dan Pardi Creating A Life Worth Living With Michael Strasner Join the Wellness Force Newsletter: www.wellnessforce.com/news Don't miss next week's show: Subscribe and stay updated Did you like this show on Ketosis? Rate and review Wellness Force on iTunes You read all the way to the bottom? 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Your relationship with fear is the most important one in your life because it's also a mirror of the relationship you have in your core. - Kristen Ulmer Instead of stopping your fears in their tracks, what if you tried to understand them better? JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST 20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE We can all relate to pushing back the feelings of fear and anxiety that like to resurface from time to time. For those who suffer from chronic anxiety, it may seem impossible to get through a single day without negative emotions controlling every moment. What would happen if you didn't prevent yourself from feeling your negative emotions, but embraced them instead? What kind of relationship could you have yourself by trying to understand your anxious thoughts? On Wellness Force Radio 151, former US Ski Team athlete turned Thought Leader on Fear, Zen Therapist, and author of The Art of Fear, Kristen Ulmer, takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself better by building a relationship with fear. After seeking assistance to help tackle her own worries and anxieties with a Zen Master, Kristen developed the highly effective teaching tool, Shift: The Game of 10,000 Wisdoms. Since becoming a Zen Therapist, she has helped many people who have insomnia, PTSD, panic attacks, depression, excessive anger, indecisiveness, and more. Discover who you are by allowing yourself the permission to feel and truly understand both fear and anxiety in just four easy steps. By the end of this episode, you will know how to approach and embrace your negative emotions.   The Art of Fear by Kristen Ulmer A revolutionary guide to acknowledging fear and developing the tools we need to build a healthy relationship with this confusing emotion—and use it as a positive force in our lives. We all feel fear. Yet we are often taught to ignore it, overcome it, push past it. But to what benefit?  This is the essential question that guides Kristen Ulmer’s remarkable exploration of our most misunderstood emotion in The Art of Fear. Influenced by Ulmer’s own complicated relationship with fear and her over 15 years as a mindset facilitator, The Art of Fear will reconstruct the way we react to and experience fear—empowering us to easily and permanently address the underlying cause of our fear-based problems, and setting us on course to live a happier, more expansive future. Listen To Episode 151 As Kristen Ulmer Uncovers: How we can #ShiftIntoFear and why we should uncover the underlying causes of fear. What services, events, and programs she offers to people with chronic fears and anxiety. How decision fatigue is a tough obstacle to overcome when we have to make daily choices. Her own experience with PTSD, adrenal fatigue, and difficult injuries that led her to heal her relationship with fear. Why she repressed her own fears for so long and when she knew that she had to do something about them. What she learned about fear and herself by working with a Zen Master. Why we should honor our emotions of fear  and anxiety in order to improve our relationship with them. How you can give yourself permission to feel your fear and other emotions with just 4 Steps. Deal with fear by finding the sensation of discomfort in your body. Be curious of where you feel it. Acknowledge that it's perfectly normal to experience discomfort in life. Take time feeling the fear, but don't try to get rid of it. Be curious again about fear's message for you. Why fear is here to serve you in order to help you become more present and focused. What she is doing to help professional athletes overcome their fear so that they can perform at their best. How can we feel more alive? What can we do to get in touch with ourselves amidst our current society? What lead her to becoming this model of a fearless person and the consequences of her being so tense. How she realized that she was experiencing adrenal fatigue and what she did to overcome it. Why she loved feeling the fear when she was a skiier, yet she regularly repressed it. How experiencing and feeling anxiety and fear will actually help us grow. Power Quotes From The Show   "Many professionals are advising us to stay away from fear, but I do the exact opposite. You think that all these modalities, therapies, and medications would be helping us to conquer our fears and anxieties, but they're only getting worse and worse. The treatment for dealing with excessive fear and anxiety is actually exasperating the underlying causes." - Kristen Ulmer "We should honor our fear in order to improve our relationship with it. It just wants to be heard. Instead of spending so much time thinking about our fear, what if we focused on feeling our fear? Emotions are meant to be dealt with emotionally, not intellectually." - Kristen Ulmer "How we treat fear is exactly how we treat ourselves. If we're embarrassed by fear, then we're embarrassed by ourselves. If we hate our fear, we hate ourselves." -Kristen Ulmer Links From Today's Show: Kristen Ulmer Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube The Art of Fear Kristen Ulmer on Making Friends with Fear - Life is Beautiful Festival 2015 Work with Kristen The Art of Fear and Skiing Events Kristen Ulmer Talks About Fear and Skiing Freedom From Excessive Fear and Anxiety Ski to Live Fear Specialist Kristen Ulmer Makes Suggestion on How to Live Your Live with Fear How Fear Influences Athletes - and What You Can Do to Have a Healthy Relationship with It 2017 U.S. Spartan Race David Deida The Hendricks Institute Fear Melters Animation WFR #055 Gay and Katie Hendricks About Kristen Ulmer Kristen is thought leader, master facilitator and fear specialist who radically challenges existing norms around the subject of this deeply misunderstood emotion. Starting out as a mogul specialist on the US Ski team, Kristen more notoriously became recognized as being the best female big mountain extreme skier in the world, a status she kept for 12 years. Known for enormous cliff jumps and you-fall-you die descents, she became sponsored by the likes of Red Bull, Ralph Lauren, and Nikon. Her mastery of other danger sports including paragliding, ice and rock climbing, kiteboarding, adventure mountain biking, and flying trapeze also gained her the outdoor industry vote as most extreme woman athlete in North America, beating all danger-sports stars, not just skiers. Retired as an athlete since 2003, she then spent the next 15 years going to the next level — studying intently with a Zen Master, which led to facilitating thousands of clients, addressing numerous subjects such as the mindset of optimal sports performance, flow states, whole mind thinking, how to embrace change, emotional intelligence and more. She developed a highly effective teaching tool called Shift: The Game of 10,000 Wisdoms. This is a facilitated dialog which helps groups or individuals access the resources of their own minds to solve problems in a matter of hours that would otherwise take decades of therapy to achieve. Her revolutionary work has been featured in such media as NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, Outside Magazine, Sports Illustrated and many more. Kristen’s transition to thought leader on Fear came in 2012, the day she realized that most of her client’s problems –such as underperforming, insomnia, PTSD, panic attacks, excessive anxiety, depression, excessive anger, excessive fear, indecisiveness and more, were quickly and permanently resolved once she helped them address their avoidance of fear. Get More Wellness In Your Life Join the WFR Community on facebook Send Josh Trent a personal message Tweet me on Twitter: Send us a fun tweet (or a what's up) Comment on the Facebook page Sign up to get an email alert whenever we release a new episode Support This Podcast Leave a 5 star review on iTunes Share this episode with someone you care about Contact Wellness Force Radio for podcast sponsorship and partnership opportunities Rate & Review Wellness Force ---> REVIEW THE PODCAST Ask A Live Question For The Next Episode ---> Click here to leave a voicemail directly to Josh Trent to be read live on the air.  You May Also Like These Episodes Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig Nir Eyal: Breaking Bad Habits, Technology Addiction, & Emotional Triggers Healthy, Happy & Harder To Kill w/ Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo Beyond Meditation: How To Get A Better Brain With Ariel Garten Living A Healthy Lifestyle In A Modern World With Dan Pardi Creating A Life Worth Living With Michael Strasner Join the Wellness Force Newsletter: www.wellnessforce.com/news Don't miss next week's show: Subscribe and stay updated Did you like this show on Ketosis? Rate and review Wellness Force on iTunes You read all the way to the bottom? 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We all have a different body and metabolism that can change from day to day. LEVL allows you to take measurements to actually see where your fat metabolism is at and what your body is using for fuel. So, instead of changing your whole lifestyle, you can adjust one thing at a time and see how that affects your levels each day.  - Andrea Duchovonic Gone are the days of testing ketone levels by solely relying on blood meter devices. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST 20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE Rather than going the route of pricking your finger for blood measurements to test beta-hydroxybutyrate or BHB, you can now simply breathe into a device to test your acetone levels. With a single breath, you can biohack your way to become the healthiest version of yourself. In Wellness Force Radio 150, both Dr. Joe Anderson, Head of Clinical Science, and Andrea Duchovonic, Territory Account Manager, of LEVL share how this breathing device is changing the way you can track your ketone levels so that you can live your most optimal, healthy lifestyle. Discover who benefits from following a Ketogenic diet and why a breathing device is optimal for keeping track of your weight loss, brain function, and energy levels. Listen To Episode 150 As Dr. Joe Anderson and Andrea Duchovonic Uncover: How LEVL measures the state of Ketosis or fat metabolism. Who is Keto for? Who should avoid following a Keto lifestyle? Measuring with blood vs. breath and acetone levels- which one is more accurate for measuring ketone bodies? What is the physiology between sleep and how we can burn more fat? How long has this type of breath technology been around? What's the science behind it? What successful experiences have people had with using LEVL? How much sugar is too much to affect a Ketogenic diet? Andrea's experience with a sluggish thyroid and adrenal fatigue. Views on using exogenous Ketone powders and tracking the breath to try to live a healthy lifestyle. How can exogenous Ketone powders be beneficial for brain function; especially for Alzheimer's and dementia, but not for brain cancer. How you can adjust and improve your lifestyle by using the LEVL device. What are some key factors we should look at when making adjustments to our health and wellness? What's coming up next for LEVL in 2018? Common misconceptions about breathing technology How will LEVL help with personal coaches or trainers work and connect with their clients. Power Quotes From The Show "It turns out that the Keto diet is great for therapeutic uses as well. There is some evidence to demonstrate that an elevated level of ketones can help with therapy of cancer, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's. However, even though there will be range of people who have a disease and benefit from ketosis, there will be those who do not benefit from it." - Dr. Joe Anderson "My keto-flu period lasted a long time. It lasted from 2 weeks to a month and so I tell people to give it 1-3 months. I was in a state of nutritional ketosis, but I wasn't feeling good and I almost wanted to give up, but I couldn't give up on myself that easy. I've been a sugar burner all my life and I knew that I wasn't going to be able to switch to becoming a fat burner in just a month." - Andrea Duchovonic "When you are losing fat, but you haven't been keto-adapted for a long period of time, eating foods with sugar can really hit you hard. Whereas, if you're around 6 months into a keto program and you're eating high fat and low sugar, you might be able to recover more quickly from eating a slice of cake because the machinery inside your body has already been ramped up. " - Dr. Joe Anderson Links From Today's Show: Dr. Joe Anderson Andrea Duchovonic LEVL Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Measuring Breath Acetone for Monitoring Fat Loss by Dr. Joseph C. Anderson What is the Ketogenic Diet and How to Measure if You're in Ketosis Response of acetone in expired air during graded and prolonged exercise Breath acetone analyzer: diagnostic tool to monitor dietary fat loss Breath acetone as biomarker for lipid oxidization and early ketone detection Measuring breath acetone for monitoring fat loss: review What Are The Best Biohacks Of The World’s Top Biohackers? What is the paleo diet? (keto?) Achieve fat-loss faster with metabolic data that helps you optimize your routine intelligently Hack Your Health: 6 Biohacks That Might Surprise You About LEVL LEVL is a cutting-edge health and wellness product developed by Medamonitor LLC. The company took root as an incubation of Seattle-based GM Nameplate, a decades-old, International company that is revered for consistent, quality manufacturing in highly-regulated markets. For the past seven years, Medamonitor has developed a groundbreaking device that arms every person with a reliable method to predict the body’s individual fat burn based on half of a century of proven breath science research. From a single idea to development to manufacturing, the LEVL device is the product of creative minds united by our mission to unlock the mystery behind achieving health and wellness goals. About Dr. Joe Anderson Dr. Joe Anderson, Ph.D., Clinical Science  is one of a few breath science leaders in the world, bringing deep experience in pulmonary physiology and breath research science to the LEVL team. He has led the development of breath protocols, performed clinical trials, and structured our science and physiology goals at LEVL, taking the research he performs and helping us translate that into protocols. Prior to joining LEVL, he managed clinical research at a VC-funded company where he guided the development of a medical device through clinical and regulatory hurdles and on to commercialization. He is the owner of Anderson Bioscience and is an affiliate faculty member in the bioengineering department at the University of Washington, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed publications. Joe’s strategic vision and deep expertise have been an immense driver in LEVL’s successes. About Andrea Duchonovic Andrea Duchonovic is a wellness enthusiast and Health Coach through the Institute of Integrated Nutrition. Andrea is an Account Manager at LEVL and works with Health and Wellness Professionals across the nation coaching them in the use of LEVL for personal and client metabolic data tracking. She also focuses on building partner relationships where LEVL provides unique lifestyle insights to hundreds of people.  Her personal wellness story, passion for the health industry and her understanding of ketosis and fat loss allows her to not only connect with clients, rather create lasting relationships that help people reach their wellness goals. Get More Wellness In Your Life Join the WFR Community on facebook Send Josh Trent a personal message Tweet me on Twitter: Send us a fun tweet (or a what's up) Comment on the Facebook page Sign up to get an email alert whenever we release a new episode Support This Podcast Leave a 5 star review on iTunes Share this episode with someone you care about Contact Wellness Force Radio for podcast sponsorship and partnership opportunities Rate & Review Wellness Force ---> REVIEW THE PODCAST Ask A Live Question For The Next Episode ---> Click here to leave a voicemail directly to Josh Trent to be read live on the air.  You May Also Like These Episodes Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig Nir Eyal: Breaking Bad Habits, Technology Addiction, & Emotional Triggers Healthy, Happy & Harder To Kill w/ Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo Beyond Meditation: How To Get A Better Brain With Ariel Garten Living A Healthy Lifestyle In A Modern World With Dan Pardi Creating A Life Worth Living With Michael Strasner Join the Wellness Force Newsletter: www.wellnessforce.com/news Don't miss next week's show: Subscribe and stay updated Did you like this show on Ketosis? Rate and review Wellness Force on iTunes You read all the way to the bottom? 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"The privilege of a lifetime is being and becoming who you are." - Joe Campbell When was the last time you took a deep inventory of your emotions? Getting in touch with emotion is no easy task, but if you open yourself up to listening to what your body is telling you, a great deal can be learned about why you may be holding onto extra weight; both physically and emotionally. As you scan your body and look for clues, you can enhance your emotional intelligence. By being more present with yourself, you can apply embodiment, connection, and sustainable behavior to every aspect of life. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST 20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE On Wellness Force Radio 149, Coach, Speaker, Facilitator & Author at Presence Academy as well as the Founder of the Evolving Men's Collective, Johnny Blackburn, shares how you can unleash your greatest potential in work, love, and life. By the end of this episode, you will learn how to get in touch with your authentic self through somatic awareness, emotional expression, and the various stages of both male and female development for a life well lived that flows and is balanced. Links From Today's Show: Johnny Blackburn Facebook YouTube Presence: A Practical Guide to Awakening Greater Potential in Work, Love & Life Coaching Speaking and Training Blog Evolving Men's Collective Presence Academy Facebook Courses and Programs Blog Joseph Campbell Finding Joe film Esther Hicks Tim Ferris Dr. Dan Siegel Dr. Sue Johnson Stephen Porges Gay Hendricks Alison Armstrong Carol Gilligan David Deida The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida JP Sears Authentic Man Program ManKind Project The New Warrior Training Adventure To Be a Man by Robert Augustus Kevin Kelly WFR #105 Dr. John Sullivan WFR #098 Tom Bilyeu Listen To Episode 149 As Johnny Blackburn Uncovers: How his injury allowed him to embrace his circumstances and make the most of the experience. What Johnny was doing during 2012, why he gathered so much information, and how he has evolved over the past 5 years to enter this state of relaxation. The importance of saying 'yes' to the Hero's Journey and the process of Separation, Initiation, and Return to develop ourselves and better serve the world. Why Johnny wrote his book, Presence: A Practical Guide to Awakening Greater Potential in Work, Love & Life The Emergent Process and how to apply embodiment, relaxation, and awareness to your life. Why microscopic facial muscles are vital to know whether or not you can trust another person. How does behavioral flexibility plug into sustainable behavior and change? What is somatic awareness? What can our chest, stomach, and throat can teach us about emotional intelligence?  Why we should give ourselves permission to feel our emotions. How holotropic breathing and other practices can be a great healing tool. His daily dream routine with keto, breathing, and meditation. David Deida's three stages to gender development for both men and women. How we can collectively progress with all of the emotions and thoughts surrounding #MeToo. What people can do to have more open discussions and become a better at speaking to their loved one. Power Quotes From The Show "The privilege of a lifetime is being and becoming who you are." - Joe Campbell "I had to put trust that this experience was happening for some reason that I didn't know yet and that I was going to take full responsibility for my situation and make the best of it." - Johnny Blackburn "Joy is the matriarch of all emotion and she only enters the home when all of her children are welcome." - Joe Hudson "There's this paradox with emotion that when it feels like we don't want to get rid of it, it won't actually leave us. Emotion needs to feel this complete quality of acceptance. Then, that degree of grounding allows it to be metabolized and released in seconds." - Johnny Blackburn "You can't Google 'wisdom.' There's going to be a time when memorization won't be so important and you can just Google the information. So, our presence, awareness, emotional intelligence - these are going to become more valued capacities." - Johnny Blackburn About Johnny Blackburn Johnny Blackburn is a professional coach, speaker & facilitator who empowers clients, organizations and audiences to discover and then live from their deeper Presence. Residing in San Diego, CA, he is a highly respected authority on human embodiment and professional performance. Blackburn’s original background in Management Consulting, Master’s degree in Psychology and more than 2000 client-coaching hours as a Professionally Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation all combined with extensive professional development training make him a highly sought after guide to greater levels of presence, openness and thriving. Personally, Johnny enjoys many forms of movement, martial arts, surfing, dancing Tango, being outdoors, reading, learning, laughing, preparing and eating delicious slow food, local community gatherings, traveling the world, going to festivals, having authentic conversations with friends, loved ones & “strangers”, and being still. Get More Wellness In Your Life Join the WFR Community on facebook Send Josh Trent a personal message Tweet me on Twitter: Send us a fun tweet (or a what's up) Comment on the Facebook page Sign up to get an email alert whenever we release a new episode Support This Podcast Leave a 5 star review on iTunes Share this episode with someone you care about Contact Wellness Force Radio for podcast sponsorship and partnership opportunities Rate & Review Wellness Force ---> REVIEW THE PODCAST Ask A Live Question For The Next Episode ---> Click here to leave a voicemail directly to Josh Trent to be read live on the air. 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"We're gathering all of this data with Fitbits, rings, and other trackers that are giving us a snap shot of who we are, but none of them are actually saying how we can aggregate that data into actual therapy. That's where we're now moving with technology." - Eric Glader Imagine being able to improve your physical performance or speed up the muscle recovery process with just a push of a button. Thanks to years of research, product development, and test trials, that is now a reality with the PowerDot Muscle Stimulator. Anywhere at anytime, you now have the ability to electronically stimulate the muscles. It's not a complete replacement for physical or chiropractic therapy, but it's meant to be a tool to help the treatment last longer. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST 20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE On this episode of Wellness Force Radio 148, tune in as as CEO and Co-Founder of PowerDot, Eric Glader, shares the benefits of electronic muscle stimulation for increased performance, recovery, and wellness. "Movement will make you feel better. At a very basic level, movement of the muscle will make it more pliable and looser." - Eric Glader @GetPowerDot 25% Off Your Purchase At PowerDot Get 25% off from your online purchase at the PowerDot Simply enter the discount code WF25 when you check out. Wireless, FDA-cleared, clinically proven and lightweight. Whether you need to improve muscle activation or want to massage away tension, PowerDot helps every body feel better faster.  With just a tap to your screen, muscle strength, recovery and wellness is at your finger tips. Links From Today's Show: Eric Glader LinkedIn PowerDot PowerDot Frequently Asked Questions  Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube "Here, There, and Everywhere" from the Boston Globe "The Entrepreneurial Journey with PowerDot" by Mike Bledsoe on Barbell Business Oura Ring Paleo f(x) Headspace SteadyMD WFR #112 - Mark Sisson WFR #137 - Dr. Tim Brown WFR #117 - Daniel Chao WFR #86 - Mark Divine PowerDot, The World's First Connected Muscle Stimulator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ByHUawin84&t=12s Listen To Episode 148 As Eric Glader Uncovers: How his childhood influenced his career in the world of startup wellness technology. What PowerDot is and what inspired Eric to bring it to the commercial market. The history of EMS to replicate a muscle contraction for both fast and slow twitch. Benefits of EMS and PowerDot including muscle strength performance, recovery, and wellness. Why RICE is not the best way to treat our bodies and recover from an intense workout. How we can use PowerDot and compression socks while flying. Who benefits the most from using the PowerDot Muscle Stimulator. What you can use PowerDot for and what you cannot; who can and who shouldn't use PowerDot. How the PowerDot was invented and the latest developments they have planned for 2018. What motivated Eric to become involved in this industry and why he's so passionate about it. Why PowerDot is not a replacement for physical or chiropractic therapy, but a means to enhance it. How to use PowerDot specifically helps to contract the muscles for explosive strength when lifting weights. The line between privacy and technology in the world of health and wellness. The benefits of functional fitness especially as we become older. Power Quotes From The Show "When you start focusing on you,  everything gets a little better. When you're healthy, your outputs are healthy. When you feel good, your interactions with people are going to feel good. - Eric Glader @GetPowerDot "Who you surround yourself with is usually who you become. If you surround yourself with good people, you'll learn a lot, but you also have to admit that you don't know everything." - Eric Glader "We want to make electrical muscle stimulation portable and simple so that our customers can get quality training care anywhere or anytime in the world. If you're on a plane, you can use this device. It's discrete and can fit in any work bag so you can have it available when you get 10-15 minutes of free time." - Eric Glader "When you start focusing on you,  everything gets a little better. When you're healthy, your outputs are healthy. When you feel good, your interactions with people are going to feel good. As long as I'm taking care of my body, I'm going to be good." - Eric Glader "I love the sport, the people we work with, and I know that everyone needs to move. Our goal at PowerDot is to make sure that the majority of people who want to pursue life, that want to move through life, and that want to go after it every single day can get access to therapy anywhere or anytime in the world." - Eric Glader Get More Wellness In Your Life Join the WFR Community on facebook Send Josh Trent a personal message Tweet me on Twitter: Send us a fun tweet (or a what's up) Comment on the Facebook page Sign up to get an email alert whenever we release a new episode Support This Podcast Leave a 5 star review on iTunes Share this episode with someone you care about Contact Wellness Force Radio for podcast sponsorship and partnership opportunities Rate & Review Wellness Force ---> REVIEW THE PODCAST Ask A Live Question For The Next Episode ---> Click here to leave a voicemail directly to Josh Trent to be read live on the air.  You May Also Like These Episodes Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig Nir Eyal: Breaking Bad Habits, Technology Addiction, & Emotional Triggers Healthy, Happy & Harder To Kill w/ Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo Beyond Meditation: How To Get A Better Brain With Ariel Garten Living A Healthy Lifestyle In A Modern World With Dan Pardi Creating A Life Worth Living With Michael Strasner Join the Wellness Force Newsletter: www.wellnessforce.com/news Don't miss next week's show: Subscribe and stay updated Did you like this show on Ketosis? Rate and review Wellness Force on iTunes You read all the way to the bottom? 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"I know what it's like to be completely lost and to be at the end of your rope with very little support. There's this need to have someone look at you and say, "It's not that big of a deal. I've got you." That is everything when you're feeling hopeless." - Krystal Vrba You can probably relate to the feeling of being trapped and not knowing which direction to take after so many dead ends. Fortunately, there is help out there that can lead you to better wellness. On the other hand, sometimes maybe you don't need to turn to another source because the answer that you're seeking is already within you. By the end of this episode, you will be equipped with the right tools and questions to ask in order to discover your inner bliss. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST 20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE Listen to Wellness Force Radio 147 as Krstal Vbra, a Whole Food Nutrition & Lifestyle Coach, Women's Empowerment and Bliss Coach, and Co-Founder of  Refresh Natural Health, The Blissful Woman Project, Footprints Conservation Society and Wild Embodied Women, shares how you can enhance your arc of polarity between feminine and masculine energy, discover bliss every day, and detox the liver by cleansing the colon with coffee enema kits. "Honor and respect your body. The body's not wrong or bad regardless of what it's bringing into your life that you need to deal with. It's all part of the journey." - Krystal Vbra @Refresh_Health Links From Today's Show: Krystal Vrba:  Instagram  Wild Embodied Women The Blissful Woman Project Facebook Instagram Footprints Conservation Society  Facebook Twitter Refresh Natural Health The Liver Reset Program Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Pinterest LinkedIn The Gerson Institute Dr. Max Gerson David Deida Alison Armstrong Kasina Meditation Lady Alpha Podcast episode No. 31 - The Blissful Woman with Krystal Vrba WFR #133 - Alwyn Cosgrove Listen To Episode 147 As Krystal Vrba Uncovers: What influenced Krystal to begin a career in health and wellness. How her decline in health and energy encouraged her to change her life. Her anaphylactic response to dairy as a child and her journey to living a healthy life. How she healed her multiple autoimmune diseases. What she did to overcame severe heavy metal toxicity and chronic fatigue. The myths surrounding coffee enema kits and why they're so beneficial for liver detox. Why the liver is so important and how a coffee enema can improve both our physical and mental health. How a liver detox works via a coffee enema. What's so amazing about coffee enemas? Why not a saline solution or essential oils? Dr. Max Gerson in the 1920s and why it worked to cure his migraines. The properties in coffee to stimulate the detoxification, cleanse the blood, and regenerate the cells in the liver for better healing How Krystal's health journey also led her to rediscovering herself and her feminine side. What does it mean "to drop into the feminine"? How she helps both men and women drop into their feminine by having them say, "I am blissful when _____." Balancing ourselves by figuring out what 10-20 things bring us bliss and how to create time to do them more often. How do we consume more bliss with food and supplements? The benefits of focusing on work for 90 minutes and then taking a bliss break for 20 to 30 minutes. The arc of polarity and why it's under attack between masculine and feminine energy. How we can allow our partners to find and fully embrace their individual flow and bliss. What holds us back from being in the present moment and obtaining our bliss? Power Quotes From The Show "When do you feel the most bliss? When are you fully in your body and experiencing joy? -Krystal Vbra @Refresh_Health "The coffee enema is specifically formulated for a liver detox. The liver is one of our most important detoxification organs. If we're not keeping it clean or supported, our health is going to suffer." - Krystal Vrba "We use coffee enemas because the coffee stimulates production and helps bind the toxins compared to something like saline solution or essential oils." - Krystal Vbra "Dropping into the feminine is unique for each person. For me, it's taking that time to say "No" to the rest of the world and say "Yes" to myself. It allows me to honor my natural rhythm in the world and give me what I need. This goes for both men and women." - Krystal Vbra "When do you feel the most bliss? When are you fully in your body and experiencing joy? Make a list of 10-20 things that bring you the most bliss. If you're not doing those things often enough, then there is a huge imbalance there. You have to create space in your schedule to them and the more you do them, the more you'll remember why they're so important to you and that will drive you to work hard." - Krystal Vrba 10% Off At Refresh Natural Health Get 10% off from your online purchase at the Refresh Natural Health online store including coffee enema kits! Simply enter the discount code wellnessforce10 when you check out.   About Krystal Vrba   At the age of 23, Krystal Vrba was working as the VP of Operations for an investment banking firm and had a blossoming career in film & TV when her health hit a major decline. She went blind in her left eye due to an autoimmune condition, developed early-onset rheumatoid arthritis, had a severe case of chronic fatigue and a very persistent explosion of cystic acne all over her face. As a high achiever and an extremist, she had pushed myself past my personal limits. Forced by circumstances that felt 'out of her control', she was challenged to really reconsider what success and happiness looked like to her.     Through personal work and divine intervention she found herself on a path of awakening that would intimately heal her body, mind and spirit.   As an intuitive health & bliss coach, she helps women and men awaken to the strength and power within themselves by taking ownership and responsibility of their own thoughts, words and daily actions; no matter the circumstances. Life is full of challenges. It is how we work through these challenges that helps define who we are and what we are capable of achieving. By doing this work, she believes that all women & men have the power to discover their true purpose and unlock feelings of absolute happiness. 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The day I started prioritizing my sleep, was the same day my poor health started improving. - Alex Fergus We're live at the Bulletproof Biohacking Conference with Alex Fergus, health coach, fitness expert, and CEO of Alex Fergus Coaching, as we explore the importance of sleep and how we can use technology to direct our actions towards optimal wellness. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST 20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE We visit Alex at the OURA Ring booth to discuss their cutting-edge wearable technology that is transforming how we track our sleep and activity. OURA gives us precise and actionable data so we can learn our bodies and develop a clear plan to improve our health. Alex also shares how coaches can use tech to monitor, guide, and create better results with their by providing added accountability and awareness. Links From Today's Show: Alex Fergus: Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Linkedin ŌURA Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Intelliskin: Website Facebook Twitter Instagram EXCLUSIVE 10% off Oura Ring Discount Code, use 'WELLNESSFORCE' Alex's OURA Cloud Coaching Video The Sound Asleep Program Dr. Kirk Parsley - Sleep To Win Fitbit Bulletproof Biohacking Conference Alex Fergus - How to Sleep Like a Sleep Coach Dan Pardi Jason Moore - Elite HRV Elite HRV Course Listen To Episode 146 as Alex Uncovers: Alex's passion for health coaching that came from a lifelong devotion to sports and fitness How excessive training, dieting, and stress caused Alex to develop gut issues The health practices Alex used to remedy his GI problems and reclaim his health How we can improve our wellness with the powerful sleep information provided by the OURA Ring The top areas of our health Alex feels we should start monitoring with technology Why most people don't understand how important sleep is for proper body and brain function How coaches can use technology to monitor, guide, and add in accountability for their clients Why the 23 hours we spend outside of the gym are more important than the 1 hour inside The mental roadblocks that stop people from appreciating and getting a good nights rest How data can act as a mirror of mindfulness for how our actions affect our health Strategies to improve your REM and restorative phases of sleep Learning how our breathing plays into our quality of sleep Alex's information and self-trials with "mouth-taping" to increase nostril-breathing at night How our rest is affected by the use of stimulants and depressants Common misconceptions about the importance of sleep How technology can help us notice the correlations between our habits and health Alex's tips on nutrition and strategies for eating a healthy ancestral diet Power Quotes from Alex Fergus "Stop wasting time and money on all these fads and gimmicks. Focus your resources on better food, better sleep and learning instead." - Alex Fergus "Unfortunately, there are consequences to following the 'sleep when you're dead' logic. And that is, you will be dead much sooner than you think." - Alex Fergus "It's not the hour in the gym that makes the real difference, it's how we act during the other 23 that will truly determine our health." - Alex Fergus "Months after my physique was being praised in bodybuilding circles and by my peers, I found out I was extremely sick." - Alex Fergus "Look beyond calories and look beyond your diet. Where you live, who you live with, how you live... all these things play a huge role in how our body functions. Make sure they are supporting your health goals." - Alex Fergus About OURA Ring For an EXCLUSIVE 10% off Oura Ring Discount Code, use 'WELLNESSFORCE' ŌURA was founded by a group of techies, health nuts, weekend warriors and globe trotters who needed to find balance in our hectic lives. In search of a product that would help us strike a balance between good health, optimal performance and a busy lifestyle, we couldn't find any comprehensive options. So we engineered a solution of our own. The ŌURA Ring provides sleep and activity tracking with unparalleled precision. The ŌURA mobile app synthesizes this data into daily knowledge, helping you understand your state of mind, body and spirit so you can best navigate your day. The most accurate device for sleep and activity tracking, the ŌURA ring: Senses the arteries in your finger, just like the hospital pulse oximeter Captures 250 samples per second for a constant flow of reliable data Detects blood volume pulse, body temperature and activity level with advanced sensors Determines sleep stages with precision comparable to clinical sleep labs Click Here To Check Out The Oura Ring   About Alex Fergus Alex has a tremendous passion for improving health and fitness. He grew up in New Zealand and participated in a lot of sports. Alex represented his country in Rowing, won national bodybuilding titles, and broke power-lifting records. There was always a strong desire to be healthier, faster and fitter. This thirst to improve lead him into the world of health coaching. He continues to read, study, experiment, listen and learn. Alex has suffered health woes - from being a horrible sleeper, embarrassingly low levels of testosterone and gut issues. Through these setbacks he has learned even more about the body - not only how to heal from these issues, but how to avoid them altogether. This is why his clients continue to have such amazing results! Today he continues to learn ways to optimize his own and his clients health and fitness, but also the people around him, family, friends and society as a whole. Get More Wellness In Your Life Join the WFR Community on facebook Send Josh Trent a personal message Tweet me on Twitter: Send us a fun tweet (or a what's up) Comment on the Facebook page Sign up to get an email alert whenever we release a new episode Support This Podcast Leave a 5 star review on iTunes Share this episode with someone you care about Contact Wellness Force Radio for podcast sponsorship and partnership opportunities Rate & Review Wellness Force ---> REVIEW THE PODCAST Ask A Live Question For The Next Episode ---> Click here to leave a voicemail directly to Josh Trent to be read live on the air.  You May Also Like These Episodes Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig Nir Eyal: Breaking Bad Habits, Technology Addiction, & Emotional Triggers Healthy, Happy & Harder To Kill w/ Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo Beyond Meditation: How To Get A Better Brain With Ariel Garten Living A Healthy Lifestyle In A Modern World With Dan Pardi Creating A Life Worth Living With Michael Strasner Join the Wellness Force Newsletter: www.wellnessforce.com/news Don't miss next week's show: Subscribe and stay updated Did you like this show on Ketosis? Rate and review Wellness Force on iTunes You read all the way to the bottom? 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Strength goes much deeper than looks and has a profound impact on our thoughts and feelings of self-worth. - AJ Richards Join us  at the Spartan World Championships in Lake Tahoe as we talk with AJ Richards, CEO of Rush Club Nation. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST 20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE Rush Club is creating "content to motivate" with the first head-to-head competitive fitness event, as they inspire people to exercise and welcome fans to participate and go for the title. AJ shares the stories and journeys of competitors to touch, move, and inspire viewers to action. He believes that when people emotionally connect and see what is possible from these everyday athletes, it will awaken a fire within them to exercise, transform their health, and live life to the fullest.   Links From Today's Show: AJ Richards: Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Rush Club Nation Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Vimeo Rush Club Human Performance Center Spartan Race Inc. Obstacle Course Races Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge - NBC.com Spartan Honor Series American Ninja Warrior Landmark Worldwide The Ultimate Fighting Championship CrossFit Joe De Sena Ronda Rousey Dana White Mark Divine - SEALFIT Listen To Episode 145 as AJ Uncovers: How AJ blended the concepts of UFC and functional exercise to create the Rush Club head-to-head fitness competition Why exercise shows us what the body is capable of and improves our thoughts and emotions Why AJ shares the stories of the athletes to help viewers realize they can achieve the same results The 100% volunteer based staff that helps fuel Rush Club's mission Why the myth around strength training making you bulky is finally coming to an end The ways Rush Club is showing the everyday heroes journey to inspire people to exercise How AJ structures his workouts based on weight class and puts people in an environment to "express their fitness" Strategies to create a workout routine that keeps you emotionally engaged Why we have to open the mind to new ways of thinking to reach a higher level How Rush Club is becoming a beacon of inspiration and showing people what is physically possible Why finding our best-self happens in the process and has no real finish line The connection between our physical and emotional intelligence Power Quotes from AJ Richards "A gym is a dead space with no value until a person has a transformation and decides to go in." - AJ Richards "We exist to touch, move and inspire viewers to action." - AJ Richards "The stigma that weightlifting makes women bulky is coming to an end.  We see moms excited to get traps, triceps, and loving the definition." - AJ Richards "Growth won't occur if you're stuck in your own view of the world." - AJ Richards "Most of the marketing and information you receive is not to support the ultimate health of your body, it's to sell products." - AJ Richards "The answer to ending conflict is training. Once somebody is happy with who they are, there is no reason to pick a fight." - AJ Richards About Rush Club Rush Club Competitive Fitness Championship is about creating and telling compelling stories of the human spirit. Stories about heroes who refuse the call to be ordinary and cross the threshold to pursue the call to victory. Stories about how people are tested, how they overcome enemies both inside and out, and about seizing the sword, going into battle, and emerging victorious. Compete In Rush Club RUSH CLUB is a weight class based, Head-to-Head, competitive fitness event. We exist to touch, move and inspire viewers to action. Throw your hat in the ring and submit your qualifier to be featured on the RUSH CLUB stage. Match up in your weight class against an equally matched undercard and win your way into a TITLE match. Take on current champions such as: Vincent Lipsey, Sam Dancer, Shawn Ramirez, Jessica Griffith, Lindy Barber, Jennifer Dancer You think you've got what it takes when the lights are shining on you and the audience is on your heels? There's only one way to find out... PROVE IT Register To Compete In Rush Club   About AJ Richards AJ Richards served in the Utah National Guard and started a few businesses over the years.  AJ is also an entrepreneur and the CEO of Rush Club Nation. He was born in Southern Utah and spent much of his childhood playing with cousins at the family cattle ranch. He dropped out of high school his senior year and joined the military. From the age of 16 until he deployed, AJ went through a new job every three months. In 2005 he deployed with his field artillery unit to Ramadi, Iraq. After returning from Iraq, AJ took a job but found himself miserable selling pest control door-to-door. He was depressed and was soon misdiagnosed by doctors with PTSD. He chose to not take the prescribed antidepressants, he started exercising and discovered CrossFit as a way to enhance his mental and physical wellbeing. AJ opened his own CrossFit gym in 2011, in 2013 he had an idea to do with CrossFit athletes and competition what Dana White did with the UFC. He took CrossFit and made it entertaining and added weight divisions. With only 3 years invested,  AJ is the CEO of Rush Club Nation. He’s been figuring out how to manage Rush Club’s popularity and massive growth while figuring out how to scale nationwide and globally. 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Although most of us aren't training for the Olympics, we can still go for gold in our everyday activities. - Greg van den Dries Whether you're an Olympic athlete or a weekend warrior, we can all go for the gold every day by increasing our capacity for movement and reducing our pain and risk of injury. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST Today we are live with Intelliskin at "Rock Stock 2017" with Greg van den Dries & Steven Capobianco, Founders of RockTape, as they explain how kinesiology tape and their various cutting edge tools are helping us increase our physical and emotional intelligence as we begin to move and fell better. Their elastic therapeutic tape and flagship product, RockTape, recoils in when applied to the skin and creates a biomechanical lifting effect which pulls the skin away from the underlying tissue. This lifting effect from the tape has 2 main functions. It stimulates skin receptors that communicate with the brain and reduces pain and increases your body awareness. Also, fluid dynamics are improved as skin is pulled away from the tissue to improve blood flow and swelling.     Links From Today's Show: Rock Tape Website  Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Intelliskin: Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Spartan Race Rock Docs RockBlades - Mohawk Rock Floss RockTape's IASTM Tools IASTM Courses American Chiropractic Association American Physical Therapy Association RockTape and USA Diving partnership IHRSA IDEA Health & Fitness Association IntelliSkin & Wellness Force Partnership Sports Chiropractor of the Year (Dr. Tim Brown - 1998) Wellness Force Facebook Community Rockstock 2018 - RockTape Listen To Episode 144 as We Uncovers: How to use kinesiology tape to improve mobility, prevent injury, and reduce pain The way tape mimics a mothers touch and stimulates receptors that bring relief How RockTape's superior design keeps the tape in place during exercise Using RockFloss compression bands to ‘unstick’ muscles and joints so they move better and with less pain How kinesiology tape can be applied as an active cure to assist with current injuries The "Rockblade" precision-engineered soft-tissue instruments used reduce pain by improving function of the tissue How RockTape can be used to promote faster recovery from training and injury Using functional taping for prevention based on your environmental requirements How coaches, trainers, and therapists can become a Certified FMT RockTape Medical Professional Understanding how the fusion of technology and wellness can improve our proactive care How functional taping techniques can increase the longevity of athletes The ways that sensor technology is transforming data collection the fitness market How to take the data we collect and adjust our routines appropriately Power Quotes From The Show   "Tape stimulates the same receptors as a mother placing her soothing hand upon your shoulder." - Greg van den Dries "Over the past 7 years, we have evolved from a tape-centric company to a movement company." - Greg van den Dries "The biomechanical lifting effect stimulates receptors in the brain that reduce pain and improves fluid dynamics." - Steven Capobianco "Application isn't the hard part, it's knowing when and why to use the tape." - Steven Capobianco "Trainers can use Rocktape as a tool to help guide their clients to better movement." - Greg van den Dries  "When we begin to move better, we start to feel better." - Steven Capobianco "Kinesiology tape is cheap and effective, and people of all experience levels can benefit from it's results." - Steven Capobianco "Every year our 'Roc Docs' recommend new products for their movement toolkit, and we deliver." - Steven Capobianco Rock Tape At RockTape, we make products that help people move better. When people move better, they tend to move more. More human movement is our goal. Click To Check Out RockTape's Entire Product Suite   RockBlades Welcome to the future of IASTM. RockBlades are comprised of two precision-engineered and manufactured soft-tissue instruments: a “Mallet” and a “Mullet,” RockRub emollient, sanitizing wipes, and a quick-start guide to form a complete IASTM system. Every detail of RockBlades – each edge, angle and contour – was carefully cultivated and refined over the course of two years. Watch the debut video to learn more. Click To Order RockBlades RockBlade's Mohawk Say hello to your new IASTM all-star, Mohawk. Perfectly sized and weighted, with an expertly-crafted shape featuring exclusive compatability with our silicone sleeve and ABS/Polycarbonate comb to enable thousands of new treatment possibilities. Hand polished treatment surfaces, combined with a perfectly balanced and weighted core, make it a joy to use day in and day out. Matte-finished dimples, four on each side, ensure positive traction of the tool during treatment. Each side and treatment edge is unique – both in shape and radius. The Mohawk’s non-treatment faces are laser-engraved with RockTape’s manifesto pattern. Click To Order RockBlade's Mohawk Rock Floss RockFloss is a new, reusable mobility tool that can help you move better and with less pain. RockFloss is a simple, latex, elastic band that fits easily in your gym bag or backpack. It’s easy, convenient and reusable, and available in 2″ or 4″ widths. RockFloss uses the science of compression and fascial shearing to help ‘unstick’ muscles and joints so they move better and with less pain. Click To Order Rock Floss About Greg van den Dries Greg loves of running, cycling and swimming have contributed to a variety of minor sports injuries, and one of those injuries required physical therapy. The PT treated him and he finished the session by applying some tape to his leg. When he asked if this was the same tape he had seen during the Olympics, the answer was yes. Greg was skeptical about the tape, but after a week his injury was healing nicely and he also noticed that his legs felt pretty good after a long ride. He started doing more research on the tape’s effects and that’s when he discovered that the tape can be used to enhance performance. (Going stronger, longer…) After trying the tape on friends and family with good results, he got excited and talked to a number of companies about buying and selling the tape. The response Greg got was frankly, crazy: no one wanted to sell him tape unless he became “certified” in their specific taping methods. It was their way of making the tape more exclusive and expensive. He decided there had to be a better way to get this great product into the hands of those who needed it, so Greg located a source, modified the formula and formed RockTape. About Steven Capobianco Dr. Capobianco holds a B.A. and M.A. in Kinesiology and Exercise Science in addition to a doctorate in Chiropractic Medicine. Steve is a practicing sports chiropractor, currently holding a Diplomate in Rehab from the ACA, in addition he is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner, and a Performance Enhancement Specialists from the NASM. He is a certified in Active Release and Graston Technique provider that allows him to treat a myriad of musculoskeletal injuries using a combination of hand and tool release therapy. Steve recently launched a sports specific rehab and performance institute called ProjectMOVE in Denver Colorado that focuses on identifying motor control dysfunction in an attempt to enhance human performance from the professional athlete to weekend warrior. Steve is an avid athlete with a passion for sports. He has spent 25 years competing in ice hockey, lacrosse, triathlons, adventure racing, and natural bodybuilding. Steve is the Medical Director for Rocktape, pioneering evidence-informed education development that challenges the status quo in movement learning. He authored the Fascial Movement Taping manual and lectures world wide on the movement based taping technique. 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