270: Change Your Life w/The 5 Second Rule

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What if what's keeping you from achieving your goals and building the life you truly desire came down to your constant, nagging habit of procrastination? What if you had a simple tool to reverse your impulse to stall with an impulse for action? What if you're over-thinking and under-doing just about everything? On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll learn the "5 second rule," and it's so elegant, and so simple, it could truly transform your life in the coming months.

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Listen & Learn:

Why 1/3 of us are totally unsatisfied
Why we must experience constant and never-ending growth to be satisfied as human beings
Why thinking is not the answer to progress (doing is)
How counting down from 5 forces mindfulness and reverses procrastination

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Mel Robbins is a motivational speaker, author, and thought leader in personal growth and development. Her TEDx Talk on "How To Stop Screwing Yourself Over" has over 10 million views across 37 countries.

She is the author of two best-selling books, The 5 Second Rule, and, "Stop Saying You're Fine". Her books have been translated into 4 languages. If you haven't seen her TED talk, you've probably seen her on Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Oprah, The Today Show or Fox News. She was named America's Outstanding News Talk Show Host at the 2014 Gracie Awards.

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0:00.0	In traditional map-based yoga classes, there's one functional fitness movement that's missing,
0:04.9	and it's becoming a bigger and bigger problem among very senior students, and it's that there's no
0:09.9	pull motion exercises. If we think of functional fitness,
0:13.1	the things we need to do to be functional operating humans
0:16.4	for our lifespan, we want to be able to push, pull,
0:20.0	and hold.
0:20.7	So imagine you're a caveman and you push a boulder to cover your cave.
0:25.0	Imagine you hold that boulder from, you know, collapsing over your young child.
0:29.0	And then you need to pull. And what that means is you go out and chop down a tree and you drag you pull that tree back to your
0:35.8	cave in yoga classes we don't have anything to pull we don't have kettle bells
0:39.7	we don't have pull-up bars to lift on we don't have straps or bands or anything like that, so it's
0:45.2	very difficult to get that pull motion and it's really important and here's why.
0:49.6	Grip strength, wrist health, shoulder health, and elbow strength.
0:54.0	And this is elbow health, I should say.
0:55.8	And this is why you'll find a lot of yoga students
0:57.9	are developing wrist problems, carpal tunnel, shoulder problems.
1:01.6	Yoga teachers blame it on bad alignment. That's
1:03.8	rarely the case. It's usually just weak and unsupported joints. And so the joints
1:08.4	themselves are fine, but they don't have the musculature of the support around
1:12.0	it because despite all the wonderful movements we do in
1:14.4	yoga we just don't have that pull motion and it's really hard to develop grip
1:18.4	strength and shoulder stability without it. Enter the yoga trape. This is why I got so excited about the
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