301: THE FLEXIBILITY SHOW
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever heard someone say, "Flexibility doesn't matter!" or "Stretching makes you weak!" For some reason, the misinformation about flexibility training is rampant, and many students are confused what to do about their locked-up hips, tight hamstrings, and stiff spines. How do you safely and effectively increase your mobility?
Since 2007, flexibility training has been a huge part of the YOGABODY world, and we're revisiting this perennial topic this year with new and updated research and practices. Join Yoga Talk Show host, Lucas Rockwood, for a 101-guide to flexibility training on this week's episode.
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Listen & Learn:
- Why "time under passive tension" matters for flexibility
- Safety myth vs reality of stretching
- Ideal schedule and timing for mobility gains
- Nutrition and recovery
- Realistic expectations and gains
ABOUT THE HOST
Lucas Rockwood is a yoga teacher trainer, digital nomad, green food junkie, and serial entrepreneur.
With a formal yoga training background in Hot Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Gravity Yoga, and the Yoga Trapeze, Lucas has studied with some of the most well-respected teachers on the planet. His most influential teachers (all of whom he studied with personally) include Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Paul Dallaghan, Alex Medin, Gabriel Cousens MD, and SN Goenka.
Lucas founded Absolute Yoga Academy in 2006, one of the top 10 yoga teacher training schools in the world with 2,000 certified teachers (and counting) and courses in Thailand, Holland, United Kingdom, and The Philippines.
In search of nutritional products designed specifically for achy yoga students' bodies, Rockwood worked with senior nutritional formulator, Paul Gaylon, and founded, YOGABODY Naturals, in the back of his yoga studio in 2007. The company has gone from strength-to-strength and is now an internationally-renowned nutrition, education, and publishing organization serving 81 countries.
In 2013, Lucas founded YOGABODY Fitness, a revolutionary new yoga studio business model that pays teachers a living wage and demystifies yoga by making the mind-body healing benefits of the practice accessible to everyone.
A foodie at heart, Lucas was a vegan chef, and owned and operated health food restaurants prior to diving deep into the yoga world. Lucas is also a highly-acclaimed writer, radio show host, TV personality, business consultant, weight loss expert, and health coach.
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- Acrylamide
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| 0:00.0 | This week's Yoga Talk Show is brought to you by Fresh Books. |
| 0:03.0 | When I first started working for myself in my early 20s, |
| 0:06.3 | bookkeeping and invoices were two of my biggest struggles. |
| 0:10.0 | I knew that it was important, but it was such a a hassle and there just weren't many good solutions. |
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| 0:29.3 | many of my yoga colleagues love Fresh Books is because it's really easy to use and probably the biggest |
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| 0:38.2 | clients and fresh books will follow up you don't have to keep chasing your clients |
| 0:42.0 | fresh books will do it for you. |
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| 0:52.8 | Just go to Fresh Books.com forward slash yoga |
| 0:55.4 | and enter Yoga Podcast in the How Did You Hear About Us section. |
| 0:59.5 | Again, that's Fresh Books.com forward slash yoga and enter Yoga Podcast in the How Did You Hear About a Section. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello and welcome, this is Lucas Rockwood with the yoga talk show. |
| 1:13.0 | Thanks for tuning in. |
| 1:14.0 | Today's show is called the Flexibility Show and it's just me here today. |
| 1:18.0 | I have been getting lots of requests and inquiries about flexibility for the past 10 years. You might not know this, but when |
| 1:24.8 | yoga body originally started, most of what we did was flexibility training, nutritional support |
| 1:29.3 | at home stretching programs, and we still do all of that. And this past month we've actually been |
| 1:33.4 | redoing one of our perennial classics Gravity Yoga which is this old video program. |
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