With the bodybuilding stuff, I started become much less of an athlete as I started to feel like I want to pack on all this muscle just so I can feel safe, I can feel like cool, you feel like loved, you know, all of these

different things that's kind of hanging my hat on physicality, my worth on physicality.

And inevitably the pieces, if you push the system hard enough,

the pieces will start to either wear out or maybe snap or explode or break.

And so I started to have that where I was just from such an

imbalanced way to training my body like really focusing just on like the muscles

that I would see in the mirror essentially like I was a big dumb animal.

So lots of work on building my chest up and you know just all the you know

biceps and all things and then that led to a lot of issues. So I had shoulder dislocation.

I had like pretty much like a chronic back pain,

I would say, you know, I had like a big ankle dislocation.

Just my joints were like becoming unstable as a product and be really destabilizing them through improper

training practices. And so then that turned into me seeking out help. which is a podcast that features the backstories of luminaries who have found their purpose

with large and small causes and they are now using their platform in creative ways that leave

the world a better place. My guest today is Aaron Alexander.

Aaron hails from the west coast of America. He grew up as an insecure scrawny kid and

discovered bodybuilding as a teenager. But after several insecure scrawny-k chronic back pain and many other injuries that are commonly associated with trying to look like you're in peak shape

And he knew that something needed to change and he began going a few layers deeper than just the surface level training and over those next several years Aaron became an expert in corrective exercises and nutrition.

Then he started working with people who were seeking everything from pain relief to

improve athletic performance and this led to a fascination with structural integration which he studied in depth at the Roth Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

And today Aaron has developed what he calls the Aligned Method, which reveals the five movement

principles for a stronger body, a sharper mind, and a stress-proof life.

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