Movement Upgraded Podcast

Episode 124 - Discomfort Tolerance & Movement Habits Getting older doesn’t have to mean getting stiffer and experiencing more pain, injuries, and struggles with movement. But, if you talk to anyone who does experience those things, they love to tell younger people to...

Episode 123 - IAP, Bracing, & The Valsalva Maneuver During Lifting If you’ve ever been curious about what you’re supposed to be thinking about to brace during lifting, and what the difference between bracing and the valsalva maneuver is, this episode will clear that...

Episode 122 - What You Can Learn From An Injury While injuries suck, they are often hidden learning opportunities. In this episode, you’ll learn 4 of the big learning lessons injuries can bring, my favorite questions to audit your movement practice & identify gaps...

Episode 121 - How Lifting Heavy Can Make You Inflexible For a long time, many people believed that if they lifted heavy, they would become more stiff and inflexible. In recent years, many of us have been sharing that this is not necessarily true and that flexibility...

Episode 120 - Rehab For Chronic Ankle Sprains Dealing with chronic ankle sprains can be super frustrating and keep you from doing things you enjoy like running or hiking out of fear of yet another injury. Unfortunately, it is common to have multiple additional sprains...

Episode 119 - How To Schedule Mobility Training With The Rest Of Your Fitness Training Once you’ve gotten a taste of how good mobility work makes you feel, it’s common to want MORE of it. And when you’re active and enjoy the full spectrum of fitness, it can be hard to...

Episode 118 - You Don’t Have To Be Good At Something To Gain Benefit From It This episode is dedicated to my fellow recovering perfectionists and high achievers. We’re covering how this all-or-nothing mindset can keep us from showing up and practicing things in...

Episode 117 - 3 Things You Need to Know to Make Your Mobility Exercises More Effective Mobility work tends to be a little more nuanced and specific than some of the other types of exercises. While you don’t have to understand every detail behind the exercises, it can...

Episode 116 - A Simple Framework For Mobility Exercise Progressions These are the 3 phases I have people go through when I work with them on their movement. It’s a simple framework I use to select exercises and progressions based on the person’s needs for their goals...