1742: Improve Your Life & Overcome Pain With Movement Featuring Aaron Alexander
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin interview Aaron Alexander.
- The current state of Aaron. (2:12)
- The reality of becoming the shape of the place you spend a lot of time in. (6:03)
- Defining the outcomes you prefer to achieve, and reverse engineering your lifestyle back from that point. (8:31)
- How much of an improvement can you make in your movement as an adult? (11:48)
- Practical advice for the average person looking to make improvements in their daily lives. (14:52)
- Why structured workouts don’t matter much if you haven’t addressed your fundamental lifestyle conditions. (21:55)
- The driving force behind his latest book. (26:36)
- The staple movements he loves to put the body in and why. (27:44)
- Why do we breathe the way that we breathe? (31:54)
- The practices he has for his clients to help with anxiety and depression. (41:15)
- Why he left Los Angeles. (50:21)
- Do not be afraid to ask more questions. (53:50)
- Why the worst thing to happen is nothing at all. (59:10)
- The value in building strong mental patterns. (1:03:55)
- What is pain? (1:09:55)
- Does he see a renewed interest in people wanting to improve their health and fitness? (1:17:32)
Related Links/Products Mentioned
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- African hunter-gatherers prefer squatting to sitting — and this may explain why they’re healthier
- Shoulder Pain? The Solution & Prevention, Revised & Expanded – Book by John M. Kirsch M.D.
- Association of Grip Strength With Risk of All-Cause Mortality, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Cancer in Community-Dwelling Populations: A Meta-analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies
- Align Podcast: Bruce Lipton: Why Your Consciousness Creates your Biology
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art – Book by James Nestor
- Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life: The Dangers of Mouth Breathing and Why Nose or Nasal Breathing is Preferred, Based on the Native American Experience – Book by George Catlin
- The Oxygen Advantage: The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques for a Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter You – Book by Patrick McKeown
- Amy Cuddy: Your body language may shape who you are | TED Talk
- Good posture is important for physical and mental health
- Mind Pump #1490: How To Improve Your Posture
- Average undesired weight gain reported by adults in the United States since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as of Feb. 2021, by demographic
- Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube
- Mind Pump Free Resources
Featured Guest/People Mentioned
- Aaron Alexander (@alignpodcast) Instagram
- Aaron Alexander Website
- Dr. John Kirsch
- Bruce H. Lipton, PhD
- Pavel Tsatsouline (@strongfirst) Instagram
- Patrick McKeown (@buteykoclinic) Instagram
- Wim Hof (@iceman_hof) Instagram
- Steven Lin (@drstevenlin) Instagram
- Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) Instagram
- Dr. John Sarno
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mind, hop, mind, hop with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the world's number one fitness health entertainment podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | This is Mind Pup, right in today's episode. |
| 0:19.0 | We talk about all about movement, the value of movement. |
| 0:23.0 | How to inject certain movements into your day to improve your mobility, |
| 0:27.0 | your health, your well-being, to lift you out of depression and anxiety, |
| 0:32.0 | especially during these really weird times. |
| 0:35.0 | We talk to our friend Aaron Alexander. |
| 0:37.0 | He's a podcast host of the Align Method and wrote a book, excuse me, Align Podcast, |
| 0:41.0 | and wrote a book called The Align Method. |
| 0:44.0 | Great book. |
| 0:45.0 | He's a movement specialist, super intelligent guy. |
| 0:48.0 | We had a great discussion with him on this particular podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Super Coffee. |
| 0:54.0 | Now, if you like coffee, that's great, but try super coffee. |
| 0:57.0 | It has added ingredients to make the caffeine more effective, |
| 1:01.0 | things like theanine that make that buzz smoother and last longer. |
| 1:05.0 | They also have coffees that are protein infused, |
| 1:08.0 | so you don't just drink regular coffee. |
| 1:10.0 | You got coffee with protein and maybe even some medium-chain triglycerides |
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