Movement Upgraded Podcast

Episode 232 - You Don't Always Need To Progress Progressive overload matters and is a necessity in making gains in strength training, but sometimes it gets treated like the only sign that your training is working. But some of the most important adaptations don't come...

Episode 231 - Why Your Joints Pop, Click, And Crunch (And When To Actually Care) Almost everyone experiences a little “snap, crackle, pop” in their body when they move, whether intentionally created when you twist to crack your back or unintentionally as you squat...

Episode 230 - What If You're Already Doing The Most Important Thing? This episode is brought to you by my caffeine-fueled rage at opening Instagram and being told, once again, all the things I'm doing wrong and missing in my life. Sometimes that content is helpful;...

Episode 229 - The Slippery Slope Of Exercise Correctives & Mobility Work So much of mobility and corrective work is about fixing your limitations, addressing what's wrong, working on your weak spots. And that's useful until it isn't. Until movement becomes one...

Episode 228 - Why Your Stretching Feels Like It's Not Working One of the biggest misconceptions I see with flexibility training is that it should be linear, that you're always making progress, always going deeper each session. So when your stretch depth varies, you...

Episode 227 - What Really Makes You Feel Old (It's Not Your Age) If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably been told something along the lines of “it’s hell to get old” or “just wait until you get older”. And you are working hard to avoid letting those things reign...

Episode 226 - Sciatica Isn't What You Think It Is Contrary to what most of the internet will tell you, most sciatica is not caused by a “tight” piriformis. If you're stretching your piriformis, strengthening your glutes, doing all the things, but your sciatica or leg...

Episode 225 - What Your Neck And Jaw Tension Might Actually Be Telling You If you’re like myself and many of my clients, you’ve spent alot of time trying to find the right neck exercise for your constant neck and jaw tension. You’ve done breathwork and the stretches,...

Episode 224 - Why Adding Mobility Work Isn't Fixing Your Low Back Pain If you’ve been doing the mobility work, stretching, and implementing more core exercises, but your low back keeps flaring up this episode is for you. Most of my clients find me when they’ve tried a...