191: Nerd Fitness
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Believe it or not, lifting weights and throwing kettlebells around can help improve your yoga practice (yup, you read that correctly). On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, Lucas Rockwood and fitness professional, Steve Kamb, unpack why “lifting heavy things” makes sense for yoga students, nerds, athletes - and everyone in between.
Steve Kamb is a fitness professional, author, speaker and the creator of Nerd Fitness, an online portal to empower people to level up their lives.
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What You'll Learn:
- How to gamify your fitness to make it more fun
- Why anyone, particularly nerdy, non-fitness type can (and should) get in shape
- How to never go to the gym and still get great workouts
- Why traditional fitness images are flawed
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- What's the deal with peanuts?
Links & References from the Show:
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- Write to us: podcast@yogabody.com
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| 0:00.0 | When I was about 12 years old I went to a podiatrist who told me I had unusually high arches, which is true. |
| 0:06.8 | The podiatrists then proceeded to prescribe orthotic inserts and then I went to a running |
| 0:12.3 | specialist and the running specialist also said wow you have such high arches |
| 0:15.7 | You need to get these special arch support shoes to support that massive arch as if an arch needs, it's actually one of the strongest structures in the world. |
| 0:26.0 | Nevertheless, I wore orthotics and I wore giant arch shoes for my entire youth. |
| 0:32.0 | And by the time I was in my early 20s my feet were really |
| 0:35.8 | deformed. They probably would have been anyway because my feet are a little bit |
| 0:39.8 | strange but they were pretty deformed in that I could not articulate or separate my feet |
| 0:44.5 | my toes kind of move as one big unit my toes are all squished together they look |
| 0:49.0 | very similar to someone who wears high heels every day in terms of how their foot gets mashed together. |
| 0:54.5 | I started doing yoga when I was 24 years old and I realized really quickly that my messed up |
| 0:59.1 | toes were affecting my balance. |
| 1:01.2 | They were affecting the ability for me to access the strength of my glutes in my entire lower |
| 1:06.7 | body, and I wanted to fix my feet. |
| 1:09.8 | I've done all kinds of interesting things in an attempt to fix my feet. I have gone barefoot |
| 1:15.3 | for over five years when I was living on a tropical island. I have gone to minimal footwear, so I wear zero drop footwear and I have used a number of different types of toast spreaders over the years. |
| 1:30.0 | Most of them are really painful, most of them fall out. Most of them break. |
| 1:34.0 | I have spent the past 12 months developing what I think are the best toe spreaders on the market. |
| 1:39.0 | They're latex-free silicon. They're extremely soft. |
| 1:42.0 | You can wear them while you practice yoga and |
| 1:44.5 | while you go running. They fit inside your shoes if you have wide-toed shoes like I do. |
| 1:49.1 | So they're very, very unique. When you're looking to transform your feet, I've learned that actually applying |
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