Send us a text What if our modern discomfort, anxiety, and health challenges stem from lack of connection and forgetting what it means to move like a human? In this fascinating conversation, movement pioneer Rafe Kelly reveals how our disconnection from natural movement has profound consequences on our development. Rafe explains how our brains evolved primarily to control movement, not just abstract thought. Drawing from evolutionary biology, anthropology, philosophy, and neuroscience, he pr...
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Send us a text What if our modern discomfort, anxiety, and health challenges stem from lack of connection and forgetting what it means to move like a human? In this fascinating conversation, movement pioneer Rafe Kelly reveals how our disconnection from natural movement has profound consequences on our development. Rafe explains how our brains evolved primarily to control movement, not just abstract thought. Drawing from evolutionary biology, anthropology, philosophy, and neuroscience, he pr...
Send us a text What if our modern discomfort, anxiety, and health challenges stem from lack of connection and forgetting what it means to move like a human? In this fascinating conversation, movement pioneer Rafe Kelly reveals how our disconnection from natural movement has profound consequences on our development. Rafe explains how our brains evolved primarily to control movement, not just abstract thought. Drawing from evolutionary biology, anthropology, philosophy, and neuroscience, he pr...
Send us a text Fitness doesn't have to mean treadmills and weight machines. What if it meant solving movement problems instead? Shelby Copeland takes us on a journey that challenges everything we thought we knew about exercise. As the founder of Force of Nature Movement in Madison, Wisconsin, she's pioneering an approach to physical activity that focuses on skill acquisition rather than conventional fitness metrics. What makes Shelby's perspective particularly refreshing is her own unconven...
Send us a text Step into the unseen athletic world of NASCAR with Chad Emmons, strength and conditioning coach for Haas Factory Team. In this eye-opening conversation, Chad reveals how his journey from college football led him to the high-stakes world of racing—a sport he once dismissed as "just turning left." NASCAR's physical demands will surprise even seasoned sports fans. Pit crews change four tires in under 10 seconds while handling 75-pound wheels and 95-pound fuel cans. Drivers endure...
Send us a text Anna Bezuglova, founder of Bamboo Body in Barcelona, shares her transformative journey studying under Ido Portal for 11 years and explains how movement practice addresses the whole person beyond just physical fitness. She articulates a profound philosophy where movement serves as the foundation for developing cognitive, emotional, and physical capacities simultaneously. • Movement isn't something you do for an hour at the gym—it's the only medium through which we interact with...
Send us a text Robert Gourlay, water expert and innovator of MEA water devices, explains how structured water with negative charge is fundamental to cellular health and optimal bodily function. He reveals that drinking structured water is the fastest way to supply our cells with the negative electrical charge they need to function at their fullest potential. • Water holds energy and information, with structured water maintaining a permanent negative charge that supports cellular function • M...
Send us a text Have you ever wondered why some pain persists despite countless treatments? The answer might lie deeper than muscles and joints, hiding in your nervous system's reflexes. John Iams, the brilliant mind behind Primal Reflex Release Technique (PRRT), joins us alongside his son Erick to share how this revolutionary approach has transformed pain treatment. Trained as a physical therapist in the 1960s, John had the rare opportunity to study under Dr. Janet Travell, the same physicia...
Send us a text Ever wondered why some injuries seem to linger or why athletes frequently re-injure the same area? The answer might surprise you—and it's not always where the pain is. Reconditioning injured athletes requires looking beyond the obvious. When working with athletes recovering from injury, I start with a crucial conversation to understand whether we're dealing with an acute or chronic issue, contact or non-contact injury, and what specific movements trigger discomfort. These deta...
Send us a text Dive into the revolutionary world of jiu-jitsu coaching with Greg Souders, owner of Standard Jiu-Jitsu in Rockville, Maryland, as he challenges traditional teaching paradigms and demonstrates how using the Constraints Led Approach transforms martial arts training. Greg has made a name for himself through his athletes' impressive results and his distinctive methodology. While traditional coaching often produces athletes who rely on their instructors for solutions, Greg's ...
Send us a text In this episode, we are excited to welcome back Dr. Robert Melillo, the world's foremost expert on neurological development. It's been five years since our previous discussion with Dr. Melillo, so we'll be exploring the new and innovative projects he has taken on. Our conversation will cover brain development, the ways our posture mirrors this growth, and how retained primitive reflexes influence athletic performance, injuries, and rehabilitation. This is an episode you won't ...
Send us a text In today's episode, we have podiatrist Andy Bryant. Andy focuses on the natural function of the feet, exploring how they are biologically and evolutionarily designed to move. Andy is also a professional educator for The Foot Collective, a global community of experts committed to addressing the root causes of dysfunction and restoring foot health. In this episode, we explore what led Andy away from traditional podiatry and onto a natural path. We also cover common foot iss...
Send us a textMat is a wealth of knowledge. In this episode, we welcome back Mat Boule, founder of the IP Institute and Posturology Instructor at CIES.In our discussion, we explore the complex neuroscience of brain development, looking at various brain regions and their functions, including the neuroscience of posture and our feet. Mat is a vast source of knowledge.To learn more from Mat, check out his courses.IP Institue: https://institutip.com/?lang=en Posturology: https://ciesposture...
Send us a text"If you don't know history, it's as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday, then any leader can tell you anything." - Howard Zinn.“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” - Winston Churchill.“The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.” - Maya Angelou.In this episode, we look back through history and the forgotten contributions of one of the ultimate greats in our field of sports performance, Dr. Bondarchu...
Send us a textToday's episode is with Skill Acquisition Coach Tyler Yearby. Tyler is the co-founder of Emergence: A Movement Skill Education Company. Tyler has worked with athletes at all levels and most recently just received his PhD in Sport & Exercise. In this episode, we go through what a Skill Acquisition coach is. What is Ecological Dynamics, and how is it different from the standard "coach lead" approach? What an "alive" movement practice may look like, and where...
Send us a textIn today's episode, we have Meredith Oak. Meredith is the Executive Director of the Institute of Applied Quantum Biology and hosts the Quantum Biology podcast.Meredith is a wealth of knowledge in quantum health, and in this episode, we discussed how modern medicine is missing a significant peace in the health and wellness puzzle. What is good and bad light. The misconceptions of sunlight. And how changing your environment can affect your overall health.If after listening to this...
Send us a textWe have a great episode with movement practitioner and teacher Karin Bensabat. In this episode, we discuss her background in practicing and studying movement, and how she first met and had the opportunity to work with Ido Portal. And how she opened her practice and works with people of all ages, shapes, and experiences to help them move better. Karin is a wealth of knowledge in movement, and I recommend checking out her free and paid online courses: https:...
Send us a textHamstring injuries are the most common type of injury at all levels of sports performance. Today's podcast snack concerns the prevalence of hamstring injuries in sports, from their occurrence to rehabilitation and prevention. As well as what I feel is being missed in all of this. I share a case study of 9 coaches who, in 61 years of coaching cumulatively, hardly have any hamstring injuries.
Send us a textJoeseph Dolcetti is the creator and owner of Lila Exogen. His wearable resistance gear is revolutionizing the sports performance field with its applications to all sports and human movement. Light is the new fast, and in todays episode Joe breaks down how he first came up with the idea to break convention and use light weights on place them on his athletes. We also discuss the science behind how and why wearable resistance works and how the fastest in the athle...
Send us a textIn today's episode, we have 2022 Winter Olympic Bobsled Athlete Josh Williamson. Josh has a fascinating journey into the world of Bobsledding. We deep-dive into how he got here, the extreme physical demands of the sport, and the preparation that goes into it.
Send us a textToday's episode we have fellow Voodoo Dude, former NFL Strength Coach & currently working at the Air Force Base in New Mexico Jess Langvardt.Jess has interesting background in S&C and has worked with some of the top minds in the industry. Jess also has a very unique view when it comes to working in human performance as he has gone down many of rabbit holes himself, as he is one of the first coaches to introduce and implement RPR and Square 1 Systems at the NFL leve...
Send us a textIn today's episode, we have two-time guest Yosef Johnson. Yosef and I reminisce about the late great Dr. Michael Yessis. Yosef was an apprentice under Dr. Yessis for 30 years and shared touching stories about Doc.The Strength and Conditioning Industry owes a lot to Dr. Yessis. He was a pioneer not only for introducing the West to sports science from the East in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s but also for his advancement and creation of his techniques and methods.Dr. Yessis was...
Send us a text What if our modern discomfort, anxiety, and health challenges stem from lack of connection and forgetting what it means to move like a human? In this fascinating conversation, movement pioneer Rafe Kelly reveals how our disconnection from natural movement has profound consequences on our development. Rafe explains how our brains evolved primarily to control movement, not just abstract thought. Drawing from evolutionary biology, anthropology, philosophy, and neuroscience, he pr...
