077: Aaron Alexander - Movement Principles that Transform Health
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
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🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Getting enough movement throughout your day isn’t just about keeping your body in peak physical shape.
To prove this, Aaron Alexander explains in this episode that postural anchoring can affect your mood and that your wrist strength is a surprising indicator of your cardiovascular health.
Aaron also discusses how our artificial environment is contributing to more health problems instead of less, what NEAT is and how you can improve it, and why standing desks won’t solve this problem.
If you don’t know Aaron, he’s a premier leader in the movement space and has over 10 years of experience studying movement.
He came up with five principles that simplify his extensive research, which he published in a book he co-authored, The Align Method: 5 Movement Principles for a Stronger Body, Sharper Mind and Stress-Proof Life.
In this episode, Aaron’s sharing some of his best movement principles -- which can easily be weaved into your day -- and why these matter so much.
Whether you exercise regularly or you’re on the sedentary side, this episode has some eye-opening points you don’t want to miss.
Tune in now to learn more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Natural State Podcast. I am your host Dr. Anthony Guestan. |
| 0:10.4 | It is my belief that the natural state of any living organism is health, |
| 0:13.9 | and that our artificial habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems. |
| 0:18.0 | This show is my attempt to dive deep and learn about using nutrition, |
| 0:21.5 | sleep, movement, relationships and more to help you reclaim your natural state of health |
| 0:26.2 | in a modern world and show you how to thrive in an environment that's stacked against you. |
| 0:30.6 | If you enjoyed today's show, you can find out more details and information at Dr. Anthony Guestan.com. |
| 0:37.2 | On this episode, we have Aaron Alexander, who I think is one of the |
| 0:42.2 | premier leaders in the movement space in the entire world. |
| 0:45.4 | This guy has some crazy concepts and frameworks, and he just doesn't think that movement |
| 0:50.1 | same with me that it is just to hold into your physical body. There's so much more |
| 0:55.6 | in movement and how it affects different parts of your health, physical health, mental health. |
| 1:00.0 | He has a lot of different frameworks, five different ones that sort of simplify his view on health |
| 1:05.8 | and how movement is sort of the predecessor to a lot of different things. |
| 1:09.3 | And his framework is called the Align Method. We sort of tap into each five |
| 1:14.2 | one of his sort of core pillars, and it's sort of it's fascinating conversation. |
| 1:19.2 | Aaron has dedicated his life to figuring this out and becoming a master of movement, |
| 1:23.5 | but not only that, but trying to translate all of his learnings over the past 10 plus years |
| 1:29.0 | into really actionable stuff that you can do at home to get more out of your health in really, |
| 1:33.9 | really simple ways. So tune in and I hope you enjoy. This is one of the biggest things that I'm |
| 1:38.4 | focusing on recently is just movement and how it can balance out sort of the focus on nutrition, |
| 1:43.2 | sleep stress that I've had and you have started to neglected movement myself. |
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